The site of Kul Tepe is located near the city of Hadishahr, in Eastern Azerbaijan Province. It is an ancient multi-period mound, having an extension of about 6 hectares and rising 19 meters above the surrounding land. The second season of archeological excavations at the site, carried out in 2013, aimed at clarifying its chronology and its settlement organization. In the meantime it aimed at el...

Unidirectional signaling from cells expressing Delta (Dl) to cells expressing Notch is a key feature of many developmental processes. We demonstrate that the Drosophila ADAM metalloprotease Kuzbanian-like (Kul) plays a key role in promoting this asymmetry. Kul cleaves Dl efficiently both in cell culture and in flies, and has previously been shown not to be necessary for Notch processing during ...

Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey, have revealed the earliest megalithic ritual architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars. Although human burials are still absent from the site, a number of fragmented human bones have been recovered from fill deposits of buildings and from adjacent areas. We focus on three partially preserved h...

Simultaneous profiles of the transient tracers sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), 3H-3He, and the chlorofluorocarbons CFC-11 and CFC-12 were measured in Lake Issyk-Kul, a large, deep lake in Kyrgyzstan. Apparent water ages derived from these measurements suggest rapid mixing, with a deepwater renewal rate .10% yr21 at 650 m depth. SF6 and 3H3He ages agree reasonably well, whereas CFC ages are significa...

By using the notion of fuzzy functions introduced by Dib and Youssef, we obtain fuzzy analogues of some results concerning ordinary functions. In particular, we give the definition different from one of invertible fuzzy function introduced by Dib and Youssef. And we show that the two definitions are equivalent. Furthermore, we introduce the concepts of fuzzy increasing functions and fuzzy isomo...

Soft ticks, Argas vespertilionis, were collected from feces of bats in Japan. Cytopathic effect (CPE) was observed after inoculating the homogenates of ticks to Vero cells. Sequencing of RNA extracted from the cell supernatant was performed by next generation sequencer. The contigs had identity to segments of Bunyaviruses, Issyk-Kul virus. The identities of segment L, M and S were only 77, 76 a...

Mit Namen gezeichnete Artikel geben die personliche Meinung des Verfassers wieder. Nachdruck aller Beiträge nur nach Rücksprache mit der Redaktion Der Gründlingsausschuß für die Universität Oldenburg, das Konzil und der Senat der Universität Oldenburg haben einstimmig beschlossen, daß die Universität Oldenburg den Namen Carl-von-Ossietzky-Universitäl fuhrt. Die Universität bedauert, daß ihr die...