Miscanthus is a leading bioenergy candidate for biofuels, and it thus becomes essential to characterize the desire natural Miscanthus germplasm accessions with high biomass saccharification. In this study, total 171 natural Miscanthus accessions were geographically mapped using public database. According to the equation [P(H/L| East) = P(H/L∩East)/P(East)], the probability (P) parameters were c...

Robots are generally composed of multiple sensors , actuators and electromechanical parts. The overall behavior of a robot is emergent from coordination among its various parts and its interaction with its environment. Designing a `correct' robot which does`the right thing' in a given environment is an important and challenging problem. The question posed in the title is decomposed into two que...

The paper focuses on East Indian immigrant parents and some of the post-immigration difficulties they experience in their attempts to rear culturally East Indian children within the United States cultural context. Concerns specific to parenting children in the US, and therapeutic issues East Indian immigrant parents bring to therapy are presented and discussed. Effective therapy with East India...

as diabetes and obesity rates continue to climb at astronomical rates in the middle east, future generationsare at an even greater risk for diabetes and the associated complications. many factors are at play and it isclear that creative solutions are needed to retool provider resources in the middle east towards preventionof diabetes and its complications while leveraging technology to maximize...

This paper analyzes the feasibility of various types of currency unions, such as a dollar bloc, Euro bloc, Yen bloc, and basket currency bloc in East Asia, and empirically estimates welfare effects of a currency union for East Asian economies. Judging from optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, including the symmetry of output and price shocks across countries, commitment to price stability, and...

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Metamorphosis involves the destruction of larval, the formation of adult and the transformation of larval into adult tissues. In this study, we demonstrate the role of the Drosophila nuclear proteins EAST and Chromator in tissue destruction and remodeling. To better understand the function of east, we performed a yeast two-hybrid screen and identified the euchromatin associated protein Chromato...

Diana HAN*, Byungho YANG*, L. Karl OLSON†, Alexander GREENSTEIN*, Seung-Hoon BAEK‡, Kate J. CLAYCOMBE*, John L. GOUDREAU‡§‖, Seong-Woon YU‡§ and Eun-Kyoung KIM*‡1 *Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A., †Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A., ‡Department of Neurology and Ophthalmolo...

In post-unification Germany, lingering conflicts between East and West Germans have found some unusual outlets, including a debate of the relative superiority of East and West German 'Ampelmännchen' pedestrian traffic signs. In our study, we probed the visual efficacy of East and West German Ampelmännchen signs with a Stroop-like conflict task. We found that the distinctive East German man-with...