The thesis examines the ability of animals to construct a home base. The home base is a point in space where animals rear, groom, and circle and is a primary element in organized spatial behaviour (Eilam and Golani 1989). Once animals establish a home base, they make outward trips and stops, and after a series of trips and stops they return again to the home base. The home base behaviour of ani...

Since the early observation by Shepherd (1981a, b) it is well known that most mature messenger RNAs have a rhythm with a period of three bases. The phenomenon has been associated to some statistical properties of protein-coding DNA, such as the distribution of purines (R) and pyrimidines (Y), and the predominance of RNY codons (N = any base) (Shepherd, 1981a, b; Arques & Michel, 1992), codon us...

Determination of mobile localization with time of arrival (TOA) signal is a requirement in cellular mobile communication. In some of the previous methods, localization with non-line-of-sight (NLOS) paths can lead to large position error. Also for simplicity, in most simulations suppose non stationary actual environments as stationary. This paper proposes (residual test + recursive least square)...

The relative binding affinities of Mnt protein from bacteriophage P22 are determined for each possible base pair at position 17 of the operator. These are determined from the partitioning of randomized operators into bound and unbound fractions; quantitation is provided by restriction enzyme analysis. Mnt protein is found to have an unusual specificity at this position: a C.G base pair (the wil...

In eubacteria, the biosynthesis of queuine, a modified base found in the wobble position (#34) of tRNAs coding for Tyr, His, Asp, and Asn, occurs via a multistep pathway. One of the key enzymes in this pathway, tRNA-guanine transglycosylase (TGT), exchanges the genetically encoded guanine at position 34 with a queuine precursor, preQ1. Previous studies have identified a minimal positive RNA rec...