English teachers are frequently asked to help colleagues prepare presentations for internationalconferences. Sometimes this assistance takes the form of a language course or tutorials focusingon the spoken language. Contact time is short but the participants are highly motivated. Whattype of pronunciation work will provide the greatest payoff in terms of successfully beingunders...

وراثت مقاومت سفیدبالک گلخانه، Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)، به دو ترکیب ایمیداکلوپرید و کلرپایریفوس مورد مطالعه قرار گرفت. در این پژوهش، از جمعیت فیلستان ورامین (FL) عنوان والد مقاوم فردیس کرج (FR) حساس استفاده شد. مقدار ترتیب حدودا 62/13 91/14 برابر بود. عدم وجود اختلاف معنی‌دار LC50 روی تلاقی‌های F1 (R♂×S♀) Fʹ1 (R♀×S♂) نشان داد که T. نوع اتوزومی (غیرجنسی) است. ه...

This report summarizes the proceedings of the 6th and 7th workshops of the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC), held back-to-back in 2008. GSC 6 focused on furthering the activities of GSC working groups, GSC 7 focused on outreach to the wider community. GSC 6 was held October 10-14, 2008 at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom and included a two-day workshop focused ...

The octyl alcohol, DL-2-ethyl-fl-hexanol, is used industrially as a solvent and, in the form of the ester, di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate, as a plasticizer. According to Shaffer, Carpenter & Smyth (1945) this ester is saponified in rats and rabbits, phthalic acid being excreted and there being also an increase in the short-chain fatty acids in the urine. After feeding the DL-alcohol to rabbits, Akiy...

grinoides ranges from the Canary Islands eastwards across some areas of North Africa, the Middle East and some parts of central Asia (Fergusson-Lees and Christie, 2002). It has characteristic plumage patterns and morphometric differences with respect to the rest of peregrine subspecies, but genetic variation is quite low in the peregrinus/pelegrinoides group, and it could be treated as a subspe...

53 The Rockefeller University Press $30.00 J. Cell Biol. Vol. 216 No. 1 53–63 https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.20161001

Soluble guanylate cyclases (sGCs) function as heme sensors that selectively bind nitric oxide (NO), triggering reactions essential to animal physiology. Recent discoveries place sGCs in the H-NOX family (heme nitric oxide/oxygen-binding domain), which includes bacterial proteins from aerobic and anaerobic organisms. Some H-NOX proteins tightly bind oxygen (O2), whereas others show no measurable...

To facilitate research in comparative genomics, sequencing projects are increasingly aimed at assembling the genomes of closely related organisms. Given two incomplete assemblies of two related genomes, the question arises how to use the similarity of the two sequences to obtain a better ordering and orientation of both assemblies. In this paper, we formalize this question as the Optimal Synten...