Erik Bathoorn1, Huib Kerstjens1, Dirkje Postma1, Wim Timens2, William MacNee3 1Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), Department of Pulmonology, and 2Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. 3Edinburgh Lung and the Environment Group Initiative/Colt Research Laboratories, Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Ed...

In the course of genetic studies, a mutant. strain of Escherichia coli was developed which is characterized by rapid fermentation and oxidat.ion of maltose but not of glucose. Since this mutant offered an excellent opportunity to invest,igat,e the so called direct utilization of disaccharides (l), a study of the enzyme systems involved in maltose decomposition was undertaken. Experiments with d...

We consider the problem of minimizing regret in the setting of advice-efficient multiarmed bandits with expert advice. We give an algorithm for the setting of K arms and N experts out of which we are allowed to query and use only M experts’ advice in each round, which has a regret bound of Õ (√ min{K,M}N M T ) after T rounds. We also prove that any algorithm for this problem must have expected ...

Tissue osmotic potential and solute constituents were evaluated in leaves and roots of well-watered and water-stressed Prunus avium L. × pseudocerasus Lindl. ‘Colt’ and Prunus cerasus L. ‘Meteor’. Osmotic potential at full turgor decreased in response to water stress for leaves and roots of both cultivars. For ‘Colt’, a cultivar with an indeterminate growth habit, decreased by 0.56 MPa and 0.38...

We report here the draft genome sequence of the alphaproteobacterium Agrobacterium sp. strain UHFBA-218, which was isolated from rhizosphere soil of crown gall-infected cherry rootstock Colt. The draft genome of strain UHFBA-218 consists of 112 contigs (5,425,303 bp) and 5,063 coding sequences with a G+C content of 59.8%.