In everyday life, we regularly choose among multiple items serially such as playing music in a playlist or determining priorities in a to-do list. However, our behavioral strategy to determine the order of choice is poorly understood. Here we defined 'the sushi problem' as how we serially choose multiple items of different degrees of preference when multiple sequences are possible, and no parti...

The Journal Usage Statistics Portal (JUSP) service is expanding rapidly, and aims to encompass all NESLi2-participating publishers by the end of 2011, together with all UK higher-education institutions subscribing to deals from those publishers. A key part of the success of JUSP will be the implementation of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) protocol for automatic ...

12 Most neurons have complex morphologies with long processes and dynamic, nonuniform spatial expression patterns of subcellular organelles and macromolecules. It is thought that trafficking and delivery of this subcellular cargo depends on purely local signals, rather than a global addressing system. Yet it remains unclear how such a decentralized system performs in complex morphologies. We ma...

12 Nervous system function requires intracellular transport of channels, receptors, mRNAs, and other cargo throughout complex neuronal morphologies. Local signals such as synaptic input can regulate cargo trafficking, motivating the leading conceptual model of neuron-wide transport, sometimes called the “sushi-belt model” (Doyle and Kiebler, 2011). Current theories and experiments are based on ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative bacterium in the family Enterobacteriaceae. It is associated with numerous nosocomial infections, including respiratory and urinary tract infections in humans. The following reports the complete genome sequence of K. pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae T1-like siphophage Sushi and describes its major features.

Three cases of hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection were successively reported to the Niigata City Public Health and Sanitation Center (the Niigata City Public Health) by clinics in Niigata City, Japan on May 15 and 16, 2006. Another case of HAV infection was reported to the Niigata Prefectural Nagaoka Public Health Center on May 10, 2006. The Niigata City Public Health suspected a mass outbreak o...

This chapter provides an overview of electronic usage statistics, including methods of defining, collecting, and using the data. A survey of some of the systems of estimating journal usage in the print environment is followed by a description of the development of electronic usage practices. The important contributions of the COUNTER and SUSHI projects are reviewed, along with issues in the man...

After a decade of the "modern era" of zebrafish hematology research, what have been their major contributions to hematology and what challenges does the model face? This review argues that, in hematology, zebrafish have demonstrated their suitability, are proving their utility, have supplied timely and novel discoveries, and are poised for further significant contributions. It presents an overv...

Dear Editor, A large outbreak of invasive Group B streptococcus (GBS) infection occurred in Singapore in 2015 which was associated with the consumption of Chinese-style raw fish (yusheng) porridge.1 The GBS clone responsible belonged to serotype III, ST283.2 We sought to determine if GBS could also be found in Japanese-style sushi and sashimi. We collected 17 fish sold ready-to-eat (12 salmon, ...