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Set4 is a chromatin-associated protein, promotes survival during oxidative stress, and regulates stress response genes in yeast
(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2018-08-06)The Set4 protein in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains both a PHD finger and a SET domain, a common signature of chromatin-associated proteins, and shares sequence homology with the yeast protein Set3, the fly ... -
Interactive Computer Simulations as Pedagogical Tools in Biology Labs
(The American Society for Cell Biology, 2018-08-24)Student learning in biology may be impaired by instructional environments that emphasize technical methodology over analysis. We hypothesized that time gained by experimenting with accurate computer simulations could be ... -
Complete Genome Sequences of HonestAbe, Anthony, and Taffo16, Three Cluster C Bacillus cereus Group Bacteriophages
(American society for Microbiology, 2018-06-21)Three cluster C Myoviridae bacteriophages that infect Bacillus cereus group bacteria were isolated from soil collected in the mid-Atlantic region using B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki as a host. Bacillus phages HonestAbe, ... -
A pulse sequence designed for robust C-phase gates in SiMOS and Si/SiGe double quantum dots
We theoretically analyze the errors in one- and two-qubit gates in SiMOS and Si/SiGe spin qubit experiments, and present a pulse sequence which can suppress the errors in exchange coupling due to charge noise using ideal ... -
Developing the Coupling of the Mechanical to the Electrical and Calcium Systems in a Heart Cell
(2017)As the leading cause of death in the United States, heart disease has become a principal concern in modern society. Cardiac arrhythmias can be caused by a dysregulation of calcium dynamics in cardiomyocytes. Calcium ... -
An Investigation of Small Worldness in Pancreatic Islets
(2017)Diabetes occurs when the body’s blood sugar levels are in a state of sustained elevation. The pancreatic beta cells, organized in the islets of Langerhans, secrete a hormone called insulin that is responsible for maintaining ... -
Evaluation of passive sampling polymers and nonequilibrium adjustment methods in a multiyear surveillance of sediment porewater PCBs
(Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), 2018-07-05)Polymeric passive sampling devices are increasingly used to measure low‐level, freely dissolved concentrations of hydrophobic organic contaminants in environmental waters. A range of polymers have been used for this purpose, ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Subpixel Reflectance Variability on Cloud Optical Thickness and Effective Radius Retrievals Based On High-Resolution ASTER Observations
(American Geophysical Union, 2018-04-26)Recently, Zhang et al. (2016, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD024837) presented a mathematical framework based on a second-order Taylor series expansion in order to quantify the plane-parallel homogeneous bias (PPHB) in cloud ... -
Distribution of Chemoattractants in a Heterogeneous Tissue and its Impact on Cell Cluster Migration
(2017)Cell migration is the process in living organisms by which the body heals and diseases spread, so comprehension of this mechanism is beneficial to understanding its applications. We studied the cluster cell migration in ... -
Long-time Simulations with Complex Code Using Multiple Nodes of Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing
(ScienceDirect, 2018-08-01)Modern partial differential equation (PDE) models across scientific disciplines require sophisticated numerical methods resulting in complex codes as well as large numbers of simulations for analysis like parameter studies ... -
A Parallel Performance Study of the High-order Compact Direct Flux Reconstruction Method for Conservation Laws on Maya Cluster
(2017)The compact direct flux reconstruction method (CDFR) for conservation laws utilizes techniques from compact finite difference methods to directly approximate spatial derivatives of fluxes within standard elements. The CDFR ... -
On the Validity of the Girsanov Transformation Method for Sensitivity Analysis of Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks
We investigate the validity of the Girsanov Transformation (GT) method for parametric sensitivity analysis of stochastic models of chemical reaction networks. The validity depends on the likelihood ratio process being a ... -
A Linearized Viscous, Compressible Flow-Plate Interaction with Non-dissipative Coupling
We address semigroup well-posedness for a linear, compressible viscous fluid interacting at its boundary with an elastic plate. We derive the model by linearizing the compressible Navier-Stokes equations about an arbitrary ... -
Numerical Methods for Parallel Simulation of Diffusive Pollutant Transport from a Point Source
In an interdisciplinary project combining Atmospheric Physics, High Performance Computing, and Big Data, we explore a numerical method for solving a physical system modeled by a partial differential equation. The application ... -
Quantification of Variabilities of Baseflow of Watersheds
The U.S. Geological Survey National Water-Quality Assessment Project conducted a study of 225 sites in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to estimate base flow. Baseflow is the estimated volumetric discharge of water, primarily ... -
A Deterministic Self-Organizing Map Approach and its Application on Satellite Data based Cloud Type Classification
A self-organizing map (SOM) is a type of competitive artificial neural network, which projects the high-dimensional input space of the training samples into a low-dimensional space with the topology relations preserved. ... -
The importance of considering sub-grid cloud variability when using satellite observations to evaluate the cloud and precipitation simulations in climate models
(Copernicus Publications, 2018-08-03)Satellite cloud observations have become an indispensable tool for evaluating general circulation models (GCMs). To facilitate the satellite and GCM comparisons, the CFMIP (Cloud Feedback Model Inter-comparison Project) ... -
Comparisons of bispectral and polarimetric retrievals of marine boundary layer cloud microphysics: case studies using a LES–satellite retrieval simulator
(Copernicus Publications, 2018-06-26)Many passive remote-sensing techniques have been developed to retrieve cloud microphysical properties from satellite-based sensors, with the most common approaches being the bispectral and polarimetric techniques. These ... -
Net radiative effects of dust in the tropical North Atlantic based on integrated satellite observations and in situ measurements
(Copernicus Publications, 2018-08-13)In this study, we integrate recent in situ measurements with satellite retrievals of dust physical and radiative properties to quantify dust direct radiative effects on shortwave (SW) and longwave (LW) radiation (denoted ... -
An Evaluation of Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Property Simulations in the Community Atmosphere Model Using Satellite Observations: Conventional Subgrid Parameterization versus CLUBB
(American Meteorological Society (ACM), 2018-02-19)This paper presents a satellite-observation-based evaluation of the marine boundary layer (MBL) cloud properties from two Community Atmosphere Model, version 5 (CAM5), simulations, one with the standard parameterization ...
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