The aim in this study was to investigate the association between infants’ developing interest in their self-image and the onset of mirror self-recognition (MSR). A longitudinal study was conducted with 98 infants who were seen at intervals of 3 months from 9–24 months of age. At each session, the infants were administered a preferential-looking test whereby they were presented with a video imag...

Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) synthesize unique organelles, the magnetosomes, which are intracellular nanometer-sized, membrane-enveloped magnetite. The biomineralization of magnetosomes involves the uptake of large amounts of iron. However, the iron metabolism of MTB is not well understood. The genome of the magnetotactic bacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense strain MSR-1 contains two ferr...

Seeds are in a natural oxidative context leading to protein oxidation. Although inevitable for proper progression from maturation to germination, protein oxidation at high levels is detrimental and associated with seed aging. Oxidation of methionine to methionine sulfoxide is a common form of damage observed during aging in all organisms. This damage is reversible through the action of methioni...

Single step combustion synthesized Cu (5–15 at.-%)/Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 materials containing highly dispersed copper have been assessed for methanol steam reforming (MSR). The activity patterns suggest Cu (10 at.-%)/Ce0.80Zr0.20O2 as the most active formulation, converting ~51% methanol at 300 °C at a gas hourly space velocity of 40,000 h-1 (W/F = 0.09 s). The in situ XPS experiments carried over the m...

The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference is a reputed, long-running and flagship conference in the area of Software Analytics which has successfully completed more than one decade as of year 2016. We conduct a bibliometric and scientific publication mining based study to study how the conference has evolved over the recent past 13 years (from 2004 to 2007 as a workshop and then from 20...

In this paper, signed-rank based nonparametric detectors are used for pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition in frequency-selective Rician fading channels. We first derive the locally optimum rank detector and then propose the locally suboptimum rank (LSR) and th order modified signed-rank (MSR ) detectors using approximate score functions. We compare the hybrid parallel double-dwell scheme using th...

This paper presents a shallow and efficient embedding of the security protocol specification language MSR into an extension of rewriting logic with dependent types. The latter is an instance of the open calculus of constructions which integrates key concepts from equational logic, rewriting logic, and type theory. MSR is based on a form of first-order multiset rewriting extended with existentia...

A comprehensive literature survey on approaches for mining software repositories (MSR) in the context of software evolution is presented. In particular, this survey deals with those investigations that examine multiple versions of software artifacts or other temporal information. A taxonomy is derived from the analysis of this literature and presents the work via four dimensions: the type of so...

The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field analyzes software repository data to uncover knowledge and assist development of ever growing, complex systems. However, existing approaches and platforms for MSR analysis face many challenges when performing large-scale MSR studies. Such approaches and platforms rarely scale easily out of the box. Instead, they often require custom scaling tricks an...

This paper presents an explicit construction for an ((n = 2qt, k = 2q(t−1), d = n−(q+1)), (α = q(2q)t−1, β = α q )) regenerating code over a field FQ operating at the Minimum Storage Regeneration (MSR) point. The MSR code can be constructed to have rate k/n as close to 1 as desired, sub-packetization level α ≤ r nr for r = (n− k), field size Q no larger than n and where all code symbols can be ...