Mutability and importance of a hypermutable cell subpopulation that produces stress-induced mutants in Escherichia coli. by Caleb Gonzalez, Lilach Hadany, Rebecca G Ponder, Mellanie Price, P J Hastings, Susan M Rosenberg

“…This implies that these mutants are not necessarily an evolutionary dead end, and could contribute to adaptive evolution. …”
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Jack of all trades, master of all: a positive association between habitat niche breadth and foraging performance in pit-building antlion larvae. by Erez David Barkae, Inon Scharf, Zvika Abramsky, Ofer Ovadia

“…We thus suggest that habitat specialization in C. lineosa is either an evolutionary dead-end, or, more likely, that this species' superiority in light soils can only be evident when considering additional niche axes.…”
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Education for Authenticity and the Grounds for a New Hermeneutics of Suspicion: A Case Analysis of Full Metal Jacket, Dead Poets Society and Whiplash by Mirela Adăscăliţei

“…The road from a socialised ‘natural’ attitude (feeding from various forms of social dogmatism) to an ever more individuated, self-realised self is exposed as a myth or a dead-end and the only way out left for us to seek may be into an intersubjective ‘fluidity’. …”
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Evolution of a Human-Specific De Novo Open Reading Frame and Its Linked Transcriptional Silencer by Nicholas Delihas

“…The formation of the complete 107 aa ORF during primate evolution is outlined, whereby sequence development is found to occur through biased mutations, with disruptive random mutations that also occur but lead to a dead-end. The 107 aa ORF is of particular significance, as there is evidence to suggest it is a protein that may function in human brain development. …”
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Debittering of Grape Juice by Electrospun Nylon Nanofibrous Membranes: Impact of Filtration on Physicochemical, Functional, and Sensory Properties by Maria Stella Cosio, Alessandro Pellicanò, Claudio Gardana, Carlos Alberto Fuenmayor

“…The effect of electrospun nylon-6 nanofibrous membranes (NFMs) on the concentration of bitter compounds and antioxidants of grapefruit juices during dead-end filtration processes was studied. Filtration experiments with aqueous standard solutions of different molecules showed that NFMs retain low molecular weight antioxidants (i.e., ascorbic and caffeic acids) only at early filtration stages, whereas they remove bitter glycosylated phenolics (i.e., naringin and narirutin) at a more stable ratio, variable according to the membrane thickness. …”
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The Role of Birds of Prey in West Nile Virus Epidemiology by Beatriz Vidaña, Núria Busquets, Sebastian Napp, Elisa Pérez-Ramírez, Miguel Ángel Jiménez-Clavero, Nicholas Johnson

“…The virus exists in a natural cycle between mosquitoes and wild birds, with humans and horses acting as dead-end hosts. As the key vertebrate hosts in the transmission cycle of WNV, avian species have been the focus of surveillance across many countries. …”
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Ecological indicators reveal historical regime shifts in the Black Sea ecosystem by Ekin Akoglu

“…The results showed that the Black Sea ecosystem experienced four regime shifts and was reorganized due to effects instigated by overfishing in the 1960s, eutrophication and establishment of trophic dead-end organisms in the 1970s, and overfishing and intensifying interspecies trophic competition by the overpopulation of some r-selected organisms (i.e., jellyfish species) in the 1980s. …”
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A disease associated mutant reveals how Ltv1 orchestrates RP assembly and rRNA folding of the small ribosomal subunit head. by Ebba K Blomqvist, Haina Huang, Katrin Karbstein

“…Their assembly is organized in a highly hierarchical manner, which is thought to avoid dead-end pathways, thereby enabling efficient assembly of ribosomes in the large quantities needed for healthy cellular growth. …”
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Conceptual model to inform Legionella–amoebae control, including the roles of extracellular vesicles in engineered water system infections by Nicholas John Ashbolt

“…All these are key features for evolution within a dead-end human pathogen post lung infection. Traditional single-hit pathogen infection models used to estimate the probability of infection/disease and critical environmental concentrations via quantitative microbial risk assessments may also need to change. …”
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Application of vetiver grass Vetiveria zizanioides: Poaceae (L.) as a trap plant for rice stem borer Chilo suppressalis: Crambidae (Walker) in the paddy fields by Yan-hui LU, Xu-song ZHENG, Zhong-xian LU

“…Our previous results indicated that the vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanioides) is a dead-end trap plant that can effectively attract the adult females of C. suppressalis to lay eggs on it but where larvae are unable to complete their life cycle. …”
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Supping with the Devil: Belief and the Imaginary World of Multiple Myeloma Therapies Invented by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review by Paul C Langley

“…Accepting ICER imaginary constructs is an analytical dead end that will stifle the discovery of new facts. …”
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Preparation of Nanofiltration Membrane Modified with Sawdust-Derived Cellulose Nanocrystals for Removal of Nitrate from Drinking Water by Amos Adeniyi, Danae Gonzalez-Ortiz, Céline Pochat-Bohatier, Sandrine Mbakop, Maurice Stephen Onyango

“…The performance of the membranes in terms of nitrate removal and water flux was investigated using 60 mg/L of potassium nitrate solution in a dead-end test cell. The characteristics of the modified membrane revealed a more nodular structure, higher roughness, increased negative surface charge, and higher hydrophilicity than the pristine membrane, leading to nitrate rejection of 94%. …”
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Protein design using continuous rotamers. by Pablo Gainza, Kyle E Roberts, Bruce R Donald

“…Finally, we present a new protein design algorithm based on the dead-end elimination (DEE) algorithm, which we call iMinDEE, that makes the use of continuous rotamers feasible in larger systems. iMinDEE guarantees finding the optimal answer while pruning the search space with close to the same efficiency of DEE.…”
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Spatial structure, chemotaxis and quorum sensing shape bacterial biomass accumulation in complex porous media by David Scheidweiler, Ankur Deep Bordoloi, Wenqiao Jiao, Vladimir Sentchilo, Monica Bollani, Audam Chhun, Philipp Engel, Pietro de Anna

“…Here, we explore how flow-mediated interactions allow the gut commensal Escherichia coli to colonize a porous structure that is composed of heterogenous dead-end pores (DEPs) and connecting percolating channels, i.e. transmitting pores (TPs), mimicking the structured surface of mammalian guts. …”
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A scalable method to quantify the relationship between urban form and socio-economic indexes by Alessandro Venerandi, Giovanni Quattrone, Licia Capra

“…In particular, results suggest that more deprived UK neighbourhoods are characterised by higher population density, larger portions of unbuilt land, more dead-end roads, and a more regular street pattern.…”
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Host Diversity and Potential Transmission Pathways of SARS-CoV-2 at the Human-Animal Interface by Hayden D. Hedman, Eric Krawczyk, Yosra A. Helmy, Lixin Zhang, Csaba Varga

“…Nonetheless, the evolutionary history and host susceptibility of SARS-CoV-2 remains unclear as a multitude of animals has been proposed as potential intermediate or dead-end hosts. SARS-CoV-2 has been isolated from domestic animals, both companion and livestock, as well as in captive wildlife that were in close contact with human COVID-19 cases. …”
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Optimization of Fermentation Process of Wheat Germ Protein by <i>Aspergillus niger</i> and Analysis of Antioxidant Activity of Peptide by Yingying Liu, Yu Zhou, Chaohong Zhu, Yanglin Meng, Jingjing Wang, Xinyang Chen, Yinchen Hou, Aimei Liao, Long Pan, Jihong Huang

“…Peptides with different molecular weights were then prepared by dead-end filtration. The results showed that F6 (<3 kDa) had strong scavenging ability against DPPH, ABTS, and ·OH radicals, which provided a basis for the preparation of antioxidant peptides in wheat germ and related research.…”
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Modeling the effect of uniform and nonuniform dispersion of nanofillers on electrical tree propagation in polyethylene dielectric by Khola Azhar, Salman Amin

“…Diverting a straight treeing channel into multiple paths reduces the chances of its propagation from live to dead-end hence, improving the breakdown strength. The physical and chemical nature of nanofillers has a crucial impact on increasing the resistance to treeing. …”
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A proposal for amending administrative law to facilitate adaptive management by Robin K Craig, J B Ruhl, Eleanor D Brown, Byron K Williams

“…In order for federal agencies to implement adaptive management more successfully, administrative law must adapt to adaptive management, and we propose changes in administrative law that will help to steer the current process out of a dead end. Adaptive management is a form of structured decision making that is widely used in natural resources management. …”
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High genetic variability of Schmallenberg virus M-segment leads to efficient immune escape from neutralizing antibodies. by Kerstin Wernike, Ilona Reimann, Ashley C Banyard, Franziska Kraatz, S Anna La Rocca, Bernd Hoffmann, Sarah McGowan, Silke Hechinger, Bhudipa Choudhury, Andrea Aebischer, Falko Steinbach, Martin Beer

“…These SBV-variants were never detected as circulating viruses, and therefore should be considered to be dead-end virus variants, which are not able to spread further. …”
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