In this paper, we study composition operators Cφf = f ◦ φ, induced by a fixed analytic self-map of the of the upper half-plane, acting between Hardy and Bloch-type spaces of the upper half-plane.

CHRISTOPHER J . BISHOP The little Bloch space, 130 , is the space of all holomorphic functions f on the unit disk such that lim1 z 1l (f'(z)j(1 Iz12) = 0. Finite Blaschke products are clearly in 130, but examples of infinite products in 80 are more difficult to obtain (there are now several constructions due to Sarason, Stephenson and the author, among others) . Stephenson has asked whether 130...

This paper surveys recent work on extended transaction management. It focusses on transaction–oriented applications in large distributed and heterogeneous information systems where applications often span multiple autonomous databases. In such an environment, the challenge is to reconcile data consistency and acceptable performance to the best extent possible, which may imply trading off consis...

Cancer cells may co-opt the NKG2D lymphocyte receptor to complement the presence of its ligands for autonomous stimulation of oncogenic signaling. Previous studies raise the possibility that cancer cell NKG2D may induce high malignancy traits, but its full oncogenic impact is unknown. Using epithelial ovarian cancer as model setting, we show here that ex vivo NKG2D+ cancer cells have stem-like ...

In this work we study how information provided by foveated images sampled according to the log-polar transformation can be integrated over time in order to build accurate world representations and accomplish visual search tasks in an efficient manner. We focus on a specific visual information modality – depth – and on how to store it in a flexible memory structure. We propose a probabilistic ob...

Introduction: CSCs have been identified in prostate cancer (PCa), one of the most diagnosed malignancies in men over the world, for which radiation resistance is a major problem in the treatment of advanced stages. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) have the ability to self-renew and differentiate to give rise to heterogeneous phenotype of the tumor cells. It is believed that CSCs are ...

‎based on a definition for circle in finsler space‎, ‎recently proposed by one of the present authors and z‎. ‎shen‎, ‎a natural definition of extrinsic sphere in finsler geometry is given and it is shown that a connected submanifold of a finsler manifold is totally umbilical and has non-zero parallel mean curvature vector field‎, ‎if and only if its circles coincide with circles of the ambient...

We present a multi-scale model to study the attachment of spherical particles with a rigid core, coated with binding ligands and suspended in the surrounding, quiescent fluid medium. This class of fluid-immersed adhesion is widespread in many natural and engineering settings, particularly in microbial surface adhesion. Our theory highlights how the micro-scale binding kinetics of these ligands,...