Stimulated infrared emission from rocks: assessing a stress indicator F. T. Freund, A. Takeuchi, B. W. S. Lau, A. Al-Manaseer, C. C. Fu, N. A. Bryant, and D. Ouzounov Ecosystems Science and Technology Branch, Code SGE, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, 94035-1000, CA, USA Department of Physics, San Jose State University, San Jose, 95192-0106 CA, USA SETI Institute, Mountain View 94043, ...

The so-called “boosting” principle was introduced by Schapire and Freund in the 1990s in relation to weak learners in the Probably Approximately Correct computational learning framework. Another practice that has developed in recent years consists in assessing the quality of evolutionary or genetic classifiers with Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) curves. Following the RankBoost algorit...

The complex interplay between the various attractive and repulsive forces that mediate between biological membranes governs an astounding array of biological functions: cell adhesion, membrane fusion, self-assembly, binding-unbinding transition among others. In this work, the entropic repulsive force between membranes—which originates due to thermally excited fluctuations—is critically reexamin...

Abstract Photorhabdus luminescens is an enteric bacterium with two faces: on the one hand these bacteria live in symbiosis soil nematodes, other they are highly pathogenic for insects. The population also phenotypically heterogeneous: part lives symbiotically interacts plants. Cell-cell communication, inter-kingdom signaling, and gene regulation processes behind complex decision of being friend...