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Short Cycle Covers of Cubic Graphs and Graphs with Minimum Degree Three
The Shortest Cycle Cover Conjecture of Alon and Tarsi asserts that the edges
of every bridgeless graph with edges can be covered by cycles of total
length at most . We show that every cubic bridgeless graph has a
cycle cover of total length at most and every bridgeless
graph with minimum degree three has a cycle cover of total length at most
Bis(2,2âČ-bipyridyl-Îș2 N,NâČ)bisÂ(2-hydroxyÂbenzoato)-ÎșO 1;Îș2 O 1,O 1âČ-cadmium(II) methanol solvate
The title compound, [Cd(C7H5O3)2(C10H8N2)2]·CH3OH, contains one monomeric seven-coordinate cadmium complex and one methanol solvate molÂecule. The CdII atom is coordinated to two 2,2âČ-bipyridyl ligands via the N atoms and to two salicylate anions (Hsalâ) via the carboxylÂate O atoms, which act as monodentate ligand for the one and bidentate ligand for the second. The CdII atom exhibits a {6 + 1} environment, approximately described as a distorted capped octaÂhedron with the apical positions occupied by one of the two N atoms belonging to one bipyridyl ligand and one of the two carboxylÂate O atoms from the monodentate Hsalâ ligand. Two intraÂmolecular six-membered hydrogen-bonded rings are present, generated from interÂactions between the carboxylÂate and hydrÂoxy groups of the salicylate ligands. There is one interÂmolecular hydrogen-bonding interÂaction involving the methanol solvent molÂecule and the carboxylÂate group from the monodentate Hsalâ ligand. The crystal packing is governed by ÏâÏ stacking interÂactions [centroidâcentroid distance = 3.783â
(4)â
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] which occur between bipyridyl ligands, by CâHâŻO and CâHâŻÏ interÂactions and by numerous van der Waals contacts
Novel inhibition of archaeal family-D DNA polymerase by uracil.
International audienceArchaeal family-D DNA polymerase is inhibited by the presence of uracil in DNA template strands. When the enzyme encounters uracil, following three parameters change: DNA binding increases roughly 2-fold, the rate of polymerization slows by a factor of â 5 and 3'-5' proof-reading exonuclease activity is stimulated by a factor of â 2. Together these changes result in a significant decrease in polymerization activity and a reduction in net DNA synthesis. Pol D appears to interact with template strand uracil irrespective of its distance ahead of the replication fork. Polymerization does not stop at a defined location relative to uracil, rather a general decrease in DNA synthesis is observed. 'Trans' inhibition, the slowing of Pol D by uracil on a DNA strand not being replicated is also observed. It is proposed that Pol D is able to interact with uracil by looping out the single-stranded template, allowing simultaneous contact of both the base and the primer-template junction to give a polymerase-DNA complex with diminished extension ability
Rushes video summarization using a collaborative approach
This paper describes the video summarization system developed by the partners of the K-Space European Network of Excellence for the TRECVID 2008 BBC rushes summarization evaluation. We propose an original method based on individual content segmentation and selection tools in a collaborative system. Our system is organized in several steps. First, we segment the video, secondly we identify relevant and redundant segments, and finally, we select a subset of segments to concatenate and build the final summary with video acceleration incorporated. We analyze the performance of our system through the TRECVID evaluation
Direct Evidence for Octupole Deformation in Ba and the Origin of Large Moment Variations in Reflection-Asymmetric Nuclei
Despite the more than one order of magnitude difference between the measured
dipole moments in Ba and Ba, the strength of the octupole
correlations in Ba are found to be as strong as those in Ba
with a similarly large value of determined as
48() W.u. The new results not only establish unambiguously the
presence of a region of octupole deformation centered on these neutron-rich Ba
isotopes, but also manifest the dependence of the electric dipole moments on
the occupancy of different neutron orbitals in nuclei with enhanced octupole
strength, as revealed by fully microscopic calculations.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let
Expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the cathelicidin motif of the protegrin-3 precursor
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A collaborative approach to video summarization
This poster describes an approach to video summarization based on the combination of several decision mechanisms provided by the partners of the KSpace European Network of Excellence. The system has been applied to the TRECVID 2008 BBC rushes summarization task
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