Strong high-quality fiber Bragg gratings with photoinduced refractive-index modulation of more than 10-(3) were written in a Corning SMF-28 fiber, a P(2)O5-doped-core fiber and a pure-silica-core fluorine-doped-cladding fiber by third-harmonic radiation (267 nm, 150 fs and 1.2-1.8x1011 W/cm(2)) of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser using a phase mask. We compare the 267-nm photosensitivity respons...

Targeting sequences on peroxisomal membrane proteins have not yet been identified. We have attempted to find such a sequence within PMP47, a protein of the methylotrophic yeast, Candida boidinii. This protein of 423 amino acids shows sequence similarity with proteins in the family of mitochondrial carrier proteins. As such, it is predicted to have six membrane-spanning domains. Protease suscept...

Murine double minute clone 2 oncoprotein (MDM2) is a key component in the regulation of the tumour suppressor p53. MDM2 mediates the ubiqutination of p53 in the capacity of an E3 ligase and targets p53 for rapid degradation by the proteasome. Stress signals which impinge on p53, leading to its activation, promote disruption of the p53-MDM2 complex, as in the case of ionizing radiation, or block...

[This corrects the article on p. 267 in vol. 97.].

from the sago palm is the starchy fibrous pith residue. This residue is abundantly and cheaply available especially in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia. It is usually washed off into drains or nearby streams together with wastewater, thus contributing to pollution load, or deposited in the factory’s compound, which can lead to serious environmental problems. It has no significant industrial or co...

Parallel code can be difficult to verify due to inherently non-reproducible execution models. When debugging or writing tests, users could benefit from getting the same result on different runs of the simulation. This is the goal that the ReproBLAS project (Nguyen et al.) intends to achieve. ReproBLAS [3] has so far introduced a reproducible floating point type (indexed float) and associated al...

The selection of wine yeasts for enological use was traditionally carried out on the basis of their technological and quality-linked phenotypical characteristics (Giudici and Zambonelli, 1992). For this purpose different methodologies were designed. Recently a two-step procedure was proposed: a pre-selection based on resistance to SO2, killer activity, growth at high temperature and low foam pr...