Publications by authors named "V S Jayaram"

To survive, insects must effectively navigate odor plumes to their source. In natural plumes, turbulent winds break up smooth odor regions into disconnected patches, so navigators encounter brief bursts of odor interrupted by bouts of clean air. The timing of these encounters plays a critical role in navigation, determining the direction, rate, and magnitude of insects' orientation and speed dynamics.

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  • Research suggests that impacts from comets could have delivered prebiotic compounds to early Earth, potentially leading to the beginnings of life.
  • Experiments involving hypervelocity impacts on icy mixtures of amino acids showed that shock processing can synthesize complex molecules, like polypeptide chains.
  • The findings imply that impacts on icy celestial bodies could create essential building blocks for life, not only on Earth but also on other planets.
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We and others have shown that during odor plume navigation, walking bias their motion upwind in response to both the frequency of their encounters with the odor (Demir et al., 2020) and the intermittency of the odor signal, which we define to be the fraction of time the signal is above a detection threshold (Alvarez-Salvado et al., 2018).

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Uterine leiomyomas, more commonly known as fibroids, are the most common neoplasms of the uterus. These tumors have a profound effect on health care and cost worldwide. Depending on the race, uterine leiomyomas can be seen in 70-80% of all women.

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In the adult population, foreign bodies may be accidentally or intentionally ingested or even inserted into a body cavity. The majority of accidentally ingested foreign bodies pass through the alimentary tract without any complications and rarely require intervention. Accidentally ingested foreign bodies are usually fish bones, bones of other animals, and dentures.

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