UNLABELLED: In recent years, managed honey bee colonies have been suffering from an increasing number of biotic and abiotic stressors, resulting in numerous losses of colonies worldwide. A pan-European study, EPILOBEE, estimated the colony loss in Belgium to be 32.4% in 2012 and 14.8% in 2013. In the current study, absolute viral loads of four know...
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In flowering plants, outcrossing is commonly ensured by self -incompatibility (SI) systems. These can be homomorphic (typically with many different allelic specificities) or can accompany flower heteromorphism (mostly with just two specificities and corresponding floral types). The SI system of the Oleaceae family is unusual, with the long-term mai...
Anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes were used as templates to control orientation of an ion-channel forming columnar mesophase obtained by self assembly of a wedge-shaped sulfonate molecule. Inside the AAO structure, the director vector of the mesophase is oriented parallel to the pore axis due to the confinement effect. The molecular arrangement...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of increasing the tibial boundaries in functional alignment on femoral component orientation in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS: A retrospective review of a database of robotic-assisted TKAs using a digital joint tensioning device was performed (BalanceBot®; Corin). A total ...
We present a novel method for the automated design of search schemes for lossless approximate pattern matching. Search schemes are combinatorial structures that define a series of searches, each of which specifies lower and upper bounds on the number of errors in each part of a partitioned search pattern, and the processing order of these parts. Co...
Most fresh bananas belong to the Cavendish and Gros Michel subgroups. Here, we report chromosome-scale genome assemblies of Cavendish (1.48 Gb) and Gros Michel (1.33 Gb), defining three subgenomes, Ban, Dh and Ze, with Musa acuminata ssp. banksii, malaccensis and zebrina as their major ancestral contributors, respectively. The insertion of repeat s...
Pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived cardiomyocytes offer vast potential in heart failure therapy, yet their immaturity poses challenges. To solve this issue, a multifaceted approach combining exclusive biochemical/topographical cues in the design of substrates mimicking the cardiac extracellular matrix was followed. Firstly, polycaprolactone (PCL)/...
