Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by ichthyosis, mental retardation, spasticity and mutations in the ALDH3A2 gene for fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of fatty aldehyde to fatty acid. More than 70 mutations have been identified in SLS patients, including small deletions or insertions, missense mutations, splicing ...

Strigolactones (SLs) are a new group of plant hormones, which have been intensively investigated during the last few years. The wide spectrum of SLs actions, including the regulation of shoot/root architecture, and the stimulation of the interactions between roots and fungi or bacteria, as well as the stimulation of germination of parasitic plants, indicates that this group of hormones may play...

Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms for prepositional satisfiability testing (SAT) have become popular and powerful tools for solving suitably encoded hard combinatorial from different domains like, e.g., planning. Consequently, there is a considerable interest in finding SAT-encodings which facilitate the efficient application of SLS algorithms. In this work, we study how two encodings sc...

The notions of an event horizon, (EH), and stationary limit surface, (SLS), are important concepts in black hole physics. The former requires no comment, while the latter is less well-known. The SLS geometrically bounds a region outside the EH known as an ergosphere. Inside the ergosphere a test particle cannot travel along the orbit of a timelike Killing vector and remain at rest, and the red ...

Stochastic Local Search (SLS) solvers are considered one of the best solving technique for randomly generated problems and more recently also have shown great promise for several types of hard combinatorial problems. Within this work, we provide a thorough analysis of different implementation variants of SLS solvers on random and on hard combinatorial problems. By analyzing existing SLS impleme...

Although the toxicity of streptolysin O (SLO) and streptolysin S (SLS) in purified group A streptococci (GAS) has been established, the effect of these molecules in natural infection is not well understood. To identify whether biologically relevant concentrations of SLO and SLS were cytotoxic to epithelial and phagocytic cells that the bacteria would typically encounter during human infection a...

In this project, Entropic will serve as a technology transfer agent for the Speech and Language Systems (SLS) program. Our ultimate goal is to make complete systems developed in the course of SLS research readily available to interested parties in government, education, and industry. An intermediate goal is to provide clean, well documented implementations of speech recognition systems such as ...

Dynamic service level negotiation is necessary to flexibly allocate resources according to QoS demands of a host or a domain. We have designed COPS-SLS as a service level negotiation protocol for IP-based networks. In this paper, we analyse a COPS-SLS-based negotiation system from the protocol design and system’s scalability perspectives. This analysis is useful not only to the improvement of t...

The admissibility analysis and robust admissible control problem of the uncertain discretetime switched linear singular (SLS) systems for arbitrary switching laws are investigated. Based on linear matrix inequalities, some sufficient conditions are given for: A) the existence of generalized common Lyapunov solution and the admissibility of the SLS systems for arbitrary switching laws, B) the ex...

The advent of image-guided, laparoscopic surgery in the United States began quietly enough in the 1960's. Certainly, the laparoscope was used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes before then, but its use was limited. The marriage in 1960 of the Hopkin's rod-lens system and Storz laparoscope with its fiberoptic light delivery system enabled physicians to view body cavities with greater illumi...