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STERIX is a new data-intensive storage and computing platform project spanning UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego. In this paper we provide an overview of the ASTERIX project, starting with its main goal-the storage and analysis of data pertaining to evolving-world models. We describe the requirements and associated challenges, and explain how the project is addressing them. We provide a technical overview of ASTERIX, covering its architecture, its user model for data and queries, and its approach to scalable query processing and data management. ASTERIX utilizes a new scalable runtime computational platform called Hyracks that is also discussed at an overview level; we have recently made Hyracks available in open source for use by other interested parties. We also relate our work on ASTERIX to the current state of the art and describe the research challenges that we are currently tackling as well as those that lie ahead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers reports on the creation of a synthetic polymer urged by the protein titin, which also presents combination of mechanical properties, by Professor Zhibi Guan and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, California. Guan and his co-workers projected a synthetic modular polymer that comprises of domains made of a dimeric supramolecular motif restrained within a macrocycle. The leading synthetic polymer indicates very interesting mechanical properties, comparatively strong and undergoes large plastic distortions.

The article reports on the result of a research study about the condition of human embryonic stem cells transplanted into the brain of an irradiated rat, conducted by researcher Charles Limoli and colleagues from the University of California in Irvine, California. The study revealed that the human embryonic stem cells have survived in the brain of the rats. It showed that the animals who receive the cells performed much better in a task of recognizing place.