p0010 As most people have experienced throughout their lifetimes, timing is everything. The ability to modify one’s behavior or physiology on a regular basis, be it daily, monthly, or yearly, is arguably one of the most adaptive responses of life and occurs in virtually all organisms, ranging from single-celled algae to complex humans. But why have biological rhythms evolved, and what functions...

Shuji Aou1, Masaharu Mizuno1, Yuko Matsunaga2, Kazuhiko Kubo2, Xue-Liang Li2 and Akikazu Hatanaka3 1Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu 808-0196, Japan, 2Department of Integrative Physiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan and 3Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Yamaguchi University, Ya...

Hydrogels (hylans AU1c ) containing divinyl sulfone (DVS)-crosslinked hyaluronan (HA) are potentially useful implant biomaterials because of their non-cytotoxicity and -antigenicity. However, to successfully fulfill their intended role in vivo, their properties (e.g., mechanics, pore size, surface topography, hydrophilicity, swelling) must be modulated to match the demands of the target applica...

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** The k-th alternation level of the theory of real numbers under addition and order is log-complete for the k-th level of the polynomial hierarchy. *Submitted to Information Processing Letters **Research supported in part by US Air Force Grant AFOSR 80-0196 ***

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