MOTIVATION The rapid increase in volume of protein structure literature means useful information may be hidden or lost in the published literature and the process of finding relevant material, sometimes the rate-determining factor in new research, may be arduous and slow. RESULTS We describe the Protein Active Site Template Acquisition (PASTA) system, which addresses these problems by perform...

Parametric spectro-temporal analyzer (PASTA) is an entirely new wavelength resolving modality that focuses the spectral information on the temporal axis, enables ultrafast frame rate, and provides comparable resolution and sensitivity to the state-of-art optical spectrum analyzer (OSA). Generally, spectroscopy relies on the allocation of the spectrum onto the spatial or temporal domain, and the...

Objective: The goal of this study was to identify commonly consumed grain food patterns in US adults (≥19 years old; N = 14,384) and compare nutrient intakes, with focus on 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines’ shortfall nutrients, diet quality, and health parameters of those consuming various grain food patterns to those not consuming grains. Methods: This study conducted secondary analyses of the Nat...

270 samples of different types of pasta and cereal products, distributed in a nursery school canteen in Milan (Italy), were analyzed to estimate the occurrence of ochratoxin A. OTA was found in all analyzed samples (100%), 39 samples exceeded the maximum limit established by European Commission Regulation for OTA in the foodstuffs listed in the relevant category. The mean concentration of ochra...

The Fermi Pasta Ulam chain with periodic boundary conditions admits discrete and continuous symmetries. These symmetries allow one to formulate important restrictions on the Birkhoff normal form of this Hamiltonian system. We derive integrability properties and KAM statements. Hence the combination of symmetry and resonance in the periodic Fermi Pasta Ulam chain explains its quasiperiodic behav...

Nuclear pasta, with nonspherical shapes, is expected near the base of the crust in neutron stars. Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of pasta show long lived topological defects that could increase electron scattering and reduce both the thermal and electrical conductivities. We model a possible low-conductivity pasta layer by increasing an impurity parameter Q_{imp}. Predictions of lig...

Pasta and couscous are popular foods manufactured (in their traditional form) from durum wheat semolina. In recent years, the consumers' quest for novel, functional, gluten-free, wholegrain foods has prompted the industry to manufacture new pasta and couscous products in which durum wheat has been partially or totally replaced by other vegetable flours. Besides dietary fibre, these raw material...

We outline the design and operation of Pasta, a peer-topeer storage system that provides traditional file system semantics while offering the wide-spread caching and distribution required for publishing networks. Pasta allows users to manipulate shared files and folders with strong consistency semantics and to collaboratively organize them in unmanaged decentralized namespaces. Storage quotas r...

In cores of supernovae and crusts of neutron stars, nuclei can adopt interesting shapes, such as rods or slabs, etc., which are referred to as nuclear “pasta.” In recent years, we have studied the pasta phases focusing on their dynamical aspects with a quantum molecular dynamic (QMD) approach. In this article, we review these works. We also focus on the treatment of the Coulomb interaction.