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Persistence of Edge-State in Stacked Graphene and Nano-Graphene Materials
Nano-carbon materials are investigated intensively. In this paper, the edge-state in nanographene materials with zigzag edges is studied theoretically. In particular, while the inter-layer interact…
Received 21 October 2009 00:23 UTC; Posted 21 October 2009
Posted to: Chemistry
Chromosomal mutational algebra: a new algebra to manipulate chromosomal mutation
This study leads to a new algebra. An algebra is defined on the common mechanisms of chromosomal mutation. The algebra (SΨ(C), *, ’, Δ, D) is constructed for a given C and Ψ...
Received 20 October 2009 03:43 UTC; Posted 20 October 2009
Posted to: Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Towards a genome-wide transcriptogram: the Saccharomyces cerevisiae case
A genome modular classification that associates cellular processes to modules could lead to a method to quantify the differences in gene expression levels in different cellular stages or conditions…
Received 16 October 2009 15:38 UTC; Posted 19 October 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics
Ten Simple Rules for Searching and Organizing the Scientific Literature
The exponentially increasing number of published papers (1.4 million per year by one estimate) makes it more and more difficult for us to manage the flood of scientific information. Each of us has …
Received 16 October 2009 05:03 UTC; Posted 16 October 2009
Posted to: Bioinformatics
Genome-scale approach proves that the lungfish-coelacanth sister group is the closest living relative of tetrapods with the BEST program
The origin of tetrapods has not been resolved for decades. Three principal hypotheses (lungfish-tetrapod, coelacanth-tetrapod, or lungfish-coelacanth sister group) have been proposed. We used the B…
Received 15 October 2009 04:03 UTC; Posted 15 October 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Genetics & Genomics, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology
Remarks on the number of tubulin dimers per neuron and implications for Hameroff-Penrose Orch OR
Stuart Hameroff has wrongly estimated that a typical brain neuron has 107 tubulin dimers and wrongly attributed this result to Yu and Baas, J. Neurosci. 1994; 14: 2818-2829. In this letter we sho…
Received 13 October 2009 09:35 UTC; Posted 14 October 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience
A Comparative Study of the Magnitude, Frequency and Distribution of Intense Rainfall in the United Kingdom
During the 1960s, a study was made of the magnitude, frequency and distribution of intense rainfall over the UK, employing data from more than 120 daily-read rain gauges covering the period 1911 to…
Received 09 October 2009 23:36 UTC; Posted 12 October 2009
Posted to: Earth & Environment
A new multicompartmental reaction-diffusion modeling method links transient membrane attachment of E. coli MinE to E-ring formation
Many important cellular processes are regulated by reaction-diffusion (RD) of molecules that takes place both in the cytoplasm and on the membrane. To model and analyze such multicompartmental proc…
Received 09 October 2009 08:58 UTC; Posted 09 October 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
An offside position in football cannot be detected in zero milliseconds
Errors when judging an offside position in football are very frequent. In the last years, several scientific papers have tried to explain the causes for human errors. When a referee or an assistant…
Received 07 October 2009 18:58 UTC; Posted 09 October 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Suppression of cell cycle progression by Jun dimerization protein (JDP2) involves down-regulation of cyclin A2
We report here a novel role for Jun dimerization protein-2 (JDP2) as a regulator of the progression of normal cells through the cell cycle. To determine the role of JDP2 in vivo, we generated Jdp2 …
Received 08 October 2009 07:50 UTC; Posted 08 October 2009
Posted to: Cancer
