The chemical composition of the solid grains from comet Halley can be inferred from impact-ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Halley's dust in the vicinity of the VEGA-1 spacecraft is a mixture of a refractory organic component and unequilibrated silicates, bu...

It is well documented that ancient sickle harvesting led to tough rachises, but the other seed dispersal properties in crop progenitors are rarely discussed. The first steps toward domestication are evolutionary responses for the recruitment of humans as dispersers. See...

We study the average-case running-time of single-source shortest-path (SSSP) algorithms assuming arbitrary directed graphs with n nodes, m edges, and independent random edge weights uniformly distributed in [0,1]. We give the first label-setting and label-correcting alg...

a b s t r a c t Several multi-year biodiversity experiments have shown positive species richness-productivity rela- tionships which strengthen over time, but the mechanisms which control productivity are not well understood. We used experimental grasslands (Jena Experim...

Normal aging of the brain is predominantly characterized by metabolic changes in the prefrontal cortex. While in middle age there is a trend to hyperfrontality, PET demonstrates in old age a decline of regional cerebral glucose metabolism in frontal areas. In progeric d...

Glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) are the major inhibitory transmitters of the mammalian retina, and bipolar cells receive GABAergic and glycinergic inhibition from multiple amacrine cell types. Here we evaluated the functional properties and subunit compositio...

ABSTRACTThe polymer blend system of deuterated polystyrene (PSd) and the statistical copolymer poly(styrene-co-para-bromo-styrene) (PBrxS) is partially compatible or incompatible depending on the degree of bromination x. The width of the interface in a bilayer system ca...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) constitute the largest receptor family in mammals and represent important drug targets. Signaling through GPCRs mediates physiological effects that are strongly dependent on the cellular context. Therefore, the availability of assays ...

Anharmonic vibrational calculations for the benzoic acid monomer and dimer in the mid-IR regime (500...1800 cm-1) are reported. Harmonic frequencies and intensities are obtained at the DFT/B3LYP level of theory employing D95(d,p) and cc-pVTZ basis sets. Anharmonic corre...