17.2 Acquisition and Assimilation of Inorganic Carbon in Photolithotrophy ......................................................... 444 17.2.1 Inorganic Carbon in the Cyanobacterial Environment ...... 444 17.2.2 Mechanisms of Inorganic Carbon Acquisition and Assimilation by Cyanobacteria .................................. 447 17.2.3 Regulation of the CCM ...........................................

A novel compound MS-444 was isolated from the culture broth of a bacterial strain KY7123. The strain was identified as Micromonospora sp. from its morphological and cultural characteristics. The compound inhibited the activity of purified smooth muscle myosin light chain kinase with an IC50 value of 10 microM. The production, isolation, physico-chemical properties and biological activities of M...

444 BioScience • May 2014 / Vol. 64 No. 5 http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org BioScience 64: 444–454. © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. doi:10.1093/biosci/biu046 Advance Access publication 16 April 2014 Toward a Better Integrati...

results endometrial thickness in patients who had 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4 d&c; were 10.00 ± 0.58, 9.83 ± 0.47, 8.90 ± 0.92, 7.42 ± 0.18 and 7.40 ± 0.07, respectively one day before ovulation (spearman’s correlation coefficient = -0.33) and 10.62 ± 0.68, 9.64 ± 0.49, 8.48 ± 0.96, 6.32 ± 0.15 and 6.90 ± 0.04, respectively, 5-7 days after ovulation (spearman’s correlation coefficient = -0.66) estradiol a...

Configuration Spaces: To begin, let us consider the problem of planning the motion of a single agent among a collection of obstacles. Since the techniques that we will be discussing originated in the field of robotics, henceforth we will usually refer to a moving agent as a “robot”. The environment in which the agent operates is called its workspace, which consists of a collection of geometric ...

What is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial intelligence (AI) can be defined (circularly) as “the study of computational systems that exhibit intelligence.” Unfortunately, it is not easy to define what we mean by “intelligence.” In the context of games, an in particular in the design of non-player characters (NPCs) a working definition might be, “It is whatever a person would do.” (Where, of co...

Decision Making: Designing general-purpose AI systems that are capable of modeling interesting behaviors is a challenging task. On the one hand, we would like our AI system to be general enough to provide a game designer the ability to specify the subtle nuances that make a character interesting. On the other hand we would like the system to be easy to use and powerful enough that relatively si...

OBJECTIVE Cysteinyl leukotrienes are involved in inflammation and possibly in early carotid atherosclerosis. We tested the hypothesis that the -444 A/C and -1072 G/A polymorphisms of the leukotriene C(4) synthase associate with risk of ischemic cerebrovascular disease. METHODS AND RESULTS We genotyped 10 592 individuals from the Danish general population, the Copenhagen City Heart Study. Duri...