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Peer Review Certifies Quality and Innovation in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (CPT) is an established voice of the discipline, a trusted source of new knowledge showcasing discovery, translation, and application of novel therapeutic paradigms to advance the management of patients and populations. Identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and disseminating the best science along the discovery-development-regulatory-utilization continuum are responsibilities shared through peer review. To enhance the uniformity of this essential component of quality assurance and innovation, and maximize the value of the journal and its contents to authors, reviewers, and the readership, we review key concepts concerning peer review as it specifically relates to CPT
Yeasts
Yeasts are a group of eukaryotic microfungi with a well-defined cell wall whose growth is either entirely unicellular or a combination of hyphal and unicellular reproduction. The approximately 1500 known yeast species belong to two distinct fungal phyla, the Ascomycota and the Basidiomycota. Within each these phyla, yeasts can be found in several subphyla or classes, reflecting the enormous diversity of their evolutionary origins and biochemical properties. In nature, yeasts are found mainly in association with plants or animals but are also present in soil and aquatic environments. Yeasts grow rapidly and have simple nutritional requirements, for which reason they have been used as model systems in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. They were the first microorganisms to be domesticated for the production of beer, bread or wine, and they continue to be used for the benefit of humanity in the production of many important health care and industrial commodities, including recombinant proteins, biopharmaceuticals, biocontrol agents and biofuels. The best-known yeast is the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which may be regarded as the world’s foremost industrial microbe
Generalizing the Planck distribution
Along the lines of nonextensive statistical mechanics, based on the entropy
, and Beck-Cohen
superstatistics, we heuristically generalize Planck's statistical law for the
black-body radiation. The procedure is based on the discussion of the
differential equation (with ),
whose particular case leads to the celebrated law, as originally shown by
Planck himself in his October 1900 paper. Although the present generalization
is mathematically simple and elegant, we have unfortunately no physical
application of it at the present moment. It opens nevertheless the door to a
type of approach that might be of some interest in more complex, possibly
out-of-equilibrium, phenomena.Comment: 6 pages, including 2 figures. To appear in {\it Complexity,
Metastability and Nonextensivity}, Proc. 31st Workshop of the International
School of Solid State Physics (20-26 July 2004, Erice-Italy), eds. C. Beck,
A. Rapisarda and C. Tsallis (World Scientific, Singapore, 2005
Stochastic Acceleration of He and He in Solar Flares by Parallel Propagating Plasma Waves: General Results
We study the acceleration in solar flares of He and He from a thermal
background by parallel propagating plasma waves with a general broken power-law
spectrum that takes into account the turbulence generation processes at large
scales and the thermal damping effects at small scales. The exact dispersion
relation for a cold plasma is used to describe the relevant wave modes. Because
low-energy -particles only interact with small scale waves in the
He-cyclotron branch, where the wave frequencies are below the
-particle gyro-frequency, their pitch angle averaged acceleration time
is at least one order of magnitude longer than that of He ions, which
mostly resonate with relatively higher frequency waves in the proton-cyclotron
(PC) branch. The -particle acceleration rate starts to approach that of
He beyond a few tens of keV nucleon, where -particles can
also interact with long wavelength waves in the PC branch. However, the He
acceleration rate is always smaller than that of He. Consequently, the
acceleration of He is suppressed significantly at low energies, and the
spectrum of the accelerated -particles is always softer than that of
He. The model gives reasonable account of the observed low-energy He
and He fluxes and spectra in the impulsive solar energetic particle events
observed with the {\it Advanced Composition Explorer}. We explore the model
parameter space to show how observations may be used to constrain the model.Comment: 29 pages, 11 Figures, Submitted to Ap
Faster Algorithms for the Maximum Common Subtree Isomorphism Problem
The maximum common subtree isomorphism problem asks for the largest possible
isomorphism between subtrees of two given input trees. This problem is a
natural restriction of the maximum common subgraph problem, which is -hard in general graphs. Confining to trees renders polynomial time
algorithms possible and is of fundamental importance for approaches on more
general graph classes. Various variants of this problem in trees have been
intensively studied. We consider the general case, where trees are neither
rooted nor ordered and the isomorphism is maximum w.r.t. a weight function on
the mapped vertices and edges. For trees of order and maximum degree
our algorithm achieves a running time of by
exploiting the structure of the matching instances arising as subproblems. Thus
our algorithm outperforms the best previously known approaches. No faster
algorithm is possible for trees of bounded degree and for trees of unbounded
degree we show that a further reduction of the running time would directly
improve the best known approach to the assignment problem. Combining a
polynomial-delay algorithm for the enumeration of all maximum common subtree
isomorphisms with central ideas of our new algorithm leads to an improvement of
its running time from to ,
where is the order of the larger tree, is the number of different
solutions, and is the minimum of the maximum degrees of the input
trees. Our theoretical results are supplemented by an experimental evaluation
on synthetic and real-world instances
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