The glp-1 gene is essential for two cell interactions that control cell fate in Caenorhabditis elegans: induction of anterior pharynx in the embryo and induction of mitotic proliferation in the germ line. To identify other genes involved in these cell interactions, we have isolated suppressors of two temperature sensitive alleles of glp-1. Each of 14 recessive suppressors rescues both embryonic...

In den 60er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts waren die in die digitalen Rechner und deren künstliche Intelligenz gesetzten Erwartungen ebenso grenzenlos wie die gleichzeitig damit verbundenen Ängste. Stanley Kubricks Film „2001 – Odyssee im Weltraum“ hat dieser ambivalenten Sicht auf Computer ein cineastisches Denkmal gesetzt. Die realen Entwicklungen konnten die in die Künstliche Intelligenz gesetz...

This study investigated the effects of short-term and long-term periods (8 16 weeks) high-intensity interval training (HIIT) on cardiovascular components, blood lipids, 6-min walking test performance in obese young boys (age = 16.2 ± 0.7) with >34% body fat. The participants were split into two groups: severe obesity (SOG; n 17) moderate (MOG; 16). All performed a cycle ergometer for weeks (...

A gene encoding a precursor polyprotein of diapause hormone (DH) and four related peptides is expressed by three groups of neurosecretory cells in the suboesophageal ganglion (SOG) of Bombyx mori. Long-term chronic recordings of firing activities were made from a common axonal tract (the maxillary nerve) of two groups of cells localized in the mandibular and maxillary neuromeres of SOG during p...

The Australian and New Zealand Crime Prevention Senior Officers' Group (ANZCP SOG) provides a national forum for senior crime prevention staff from each State and Territory as well as Commonwealth and New Zealand government to exchange and share information about crime prevention practices. The ANZCP SOG aims to: • BLOCKINsupport strategic thinking and policy development on crime prevention iss...

This paper presents systematic investigation on the surface properties of electroosmotic flows (EOF) inside microchannels for quartz, glass and PDMS based materials. Two novel methods to modify the surface properties of glass-based microchannels for capillary electrophoresis (CE) are developed. Instead of using complicated and time-consuming chemical silanization procedures for surface modifica...

Autofocusing is essential to digital holographic imaging. Previously used autofocusing criteria exhibit challenges when applied to, e.g., connected objects with different optical properties. Furthermore, in some of the earlier autofocusing criteria, the polarity, i.e., whether to search for the peak or the valley as a function of depth, changes for different types of samples, which creates anot...