Island invasions may cause severe changes in biodiversity, but the factors that influence these changes are not well understood.We established 120 plots in Cycas micronesica habitats throughout Guam in 2005 following the invasion of the armored scale Aulacaspis yasumatsui, then observed plant mortality through 2020.We used transects in Yap as bench
The ubiquitin system contains a wealth of potential drug targets for many diseases and conditions, including neurodegenerative, immune, metabolic and developmental diseases, as well as multiple cancers.Despite years of research, relatively few clinical inhibitors or specific Wall Mounts chemical probes for proteins within the ubiquitin system exist
European Union legislation sets mandatory emission and fuel consumption reduction targets for new vehicles and therefore economy remains a key challenge for automotive engineers.Optimizing the transmission shift schedule for an automatic transmission with double clutch is an important part of improving fuel economy.Using simulation and optimization
A simple chaotic snap circuit based on a single transistor is presented with tunable damping.It suggests, at present, the simplest chaotic snap circuit in the sense that it requires only 9 devices, which offer the minimum number of devices for a chaotic snap circuit.It also suggests the first and simplest circuit realization of either a four-dimens
Cardiac induction of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is a process bearing increasing medical relevance, yet it is poorly understood from a developmental biology perspective.Anticipated technological progress in deriving stably expandable cardiac precursor cells or in advancing cardiac subtype specification protocols will likely require deeper in