Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
September 2025
Living systems display complex behaviors driven by physical forces as well as decision-making. Hydrodynamic theories hold promise for simplified universal descriptions of socially generated collective behaviors. However, the construction of such theories is often divorced from the data they should describe.
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June 2024
Ultramarathon open water swimming (OWS) events are one of the toughest endurance challenges in the world. The sport has gained notoriety with athletes swimming across the English Channel, Diana Nyad swimming from Cuba to Florida, and the 5- and 10-km OWS in the Olympic schedule. The athletes who participate are exposed to dangerous conditions that expose risks inherent to the sport.
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January 2024
Context: A high number of exertional heat stroke (EHS) cases occur during the Falmouth Road Race.
Objectives: To extend previous analyses of EHS cases during the Falmouth Road Race by assessing or describing (1) EHS and heat exhaustion (HE) incidence rates, (2) EHS outcomes as they relate to survival, (3) the effect of the environment on these outcomes, and (4) how this influences medical provider planning and preparedness.
Design: Descriptive epidemiologic study.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate associations between digital urine color and paper urine color with other urine indices to assess hydration status.
Methods: Twelve male subjects (mean ± standard deviation; age, 26 ± 8 years; body mass, 57.8 ± 5.
We introduce and study a new model consisting of a single classical random walker undergoing continuous monitoring at rate γ on a discrete lattice. Although such a continuous measurement cannot affect physical observables, it has a nontrivial effect on the probability distribution of the random walker. At small γ, we show analytically that the time evolution of the latter can be mapped to the stochastic heat equation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study proposes a fully automated approach for the left atrial segmentation from routine cine long-axis cardiac magnetic resonance image sequences using deep convolutional neural networks and Bayesian filtering. The proposed approach consists of a classification network that automatically detects the type of long-axis sequence and three different convolutional neural network models followed by unscented Kalman filtering (UKF) that delineates the left atrium. Instead of training and predicting all long-axis sequence types together, the proposed approach first identifies the image sequence type as to 2, 3 and 4 chamber views, and then performs prediction based on neural nets trained for that particular sequence type.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe PHD finger motif is a signature chromatin-associated motif that is found throughout eukaryotic proteomes. Here we have determined the histone methyl-lysine binding activity of the PHD fingers present within the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome. We provide evidence on the genomic scale that PHD fingers constitute a general class of effector modules for histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 4 (H3K4me3) and histone H3 trimethylated at lysine 36 (H3K36me3).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ING (inhibitor of growth) protein family includes a group of homologous nuclear proteins that share a highly conserved plant homeodomain (PHD) finger domain at their carboxyl termini. Members of this family are found in multiprotein complexes that posttranslationally modify histones, suggesting that these proteins serve a general role in permitting various enzymatic activities to interact with nucleosomes. There are three members of the ING family in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Yng1p, Yng2p, and Pho23p.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe SAS3-dependent NuA3 histone acetyltransferase complex was originally identified on the basis of its ability to acetylate histone H3 in vitro. Whether NuA3 is capable of acetylating histones in vivo, or how the complex is targeted to the nucleosomes that it modifies, was unknown. To address this question, we asked whether NuA3 is associated with chromatin in vivo and how this association is regulated.
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July 2002
Three distinct chemical classes for the control of gastrointestinal nematodes are available: benzimidazoles, imidazothiazoles, and macrocyclic lactones. The relentless development of drug resistance has severely limited the usefulness of such drugs and the search for a new class of compounds preferably with a different mode of action is an important endeavor. Marcfortine A (1), a metabolite of Penicillium roqueforti, is structurally related to paraherquamide A (2), originally isolated from Penicillium paraherquei.
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