During the period of mitosis, two surface contraction waves (SCWs) progress from the animal to vegetal poles of the Xenopus egg. It has been shown that these SCWs occur in parallel with the activation of MPF and with its subsequent inactivation in the animal and vegetal hemispheres, suggesting that they are responses to propagated waves of MPF activity across the egg. We have analysed the mecha...

Background Our knowledge of signaling mechanisms involved in secondary cell wall (SCW) formation is quite limited. To discover novel markers of SCW, a genomics approach using Zinnia elegans xylogenic cultures was undertaken that identified hundreds of gene candidates expressed at the onset of secondary wall formation [1]. Arabidopsis homologs and the corresponding T-DNA mutants for each Zinnia ...

In this paper, we propose a new Soft Confidence-Weighted (SCW) online learning scheme, which enables the conventional confidence-weighted learning method to handle non-separable cases. Unlike the previous confidence-weighted learning algorithms, the proposed soft confidence-weighted learning method enjoys all the four salient properties: (i) large margin training, (ii) confidence weighting, (ii...

Abstract Fe/Ti-based compounds were synthesized from ferro-titaniferous mineral sands using aqueous oxalic acid under subcritical water (sCW) conditions (135°C/50 bar/4 h) and their photocatalytic activity was evaluated against methylene blue or caffeine UV-A visible radiation. The X-ray diffraction Raman spectroscopy analyses revealed that the as-synthetized mainly comprised of ferrous oxalate...

Patterning the dorsal surface of the Drosophila blastoderm embryo requires Decapentaplegic (Dpp) and Screw (Scw), two BMP family members. Signaling by these ligands is regulated at the extracellular level by the BMP binding proteins Sog and Tsg. We demonstrate that Tsg and Sog play essential roles in transporting Dpp to the dorsal-most cells. Furthermore, we provide biochemical and genetic evid...

in this study, the process-based watershed model, soil and water assessment tool (swat), was used for simulating hydrology and sediment transport in the gharesou watershed and for identifying critical areas of soil erosion and water pollution. after model calibration and uncertainty analysis using sufi-2 (sequential uncertainty fitting, ver. 2) method, the outputs of the calibrated model were u...

The motivation for this work is the stability problem for short-crested Stokes waves. A new point of view is proposed, based on the observation that an understanding of the linear stability of short-crested waves (SCWs) is closely associated with an understanding of the stability of the oblique non-resonant interaction between two waves. The proposed approach is to embed the SCWs in a six-param...

This paper examines an approach to speaker adaptation called speaker cluster weighting (SCW) for rapid adaptation in the Jupiter weather information system. SCW extends the ideas of previous speaker cluster techniques by allowing the speaker cluster models (learned from training data) to be adaptively weighted to match the current speaker. We explore strategies for automatic speaker clustering ...

Secondary cell wall (SCW) biosynthesis is an important stage of the cotton fibre development, and its transcriptional regulation is poorly understood. We selected the Gossypium hirsutum GDSL (GhGDSL) lipase/hydrolase gene (CotAD_74480), which is expressed during SCW biosynthesis (19 through to 25 days postanthesis; DPA), for study. T1 -transgenic cotton lines expressing the β-glucuronidase (gus...

A two dimensional numerical model of shallow water equations was developed tocalculate sub and super-critical open channel flows. Utilizing an implicit scheme the steady stateequations were discretized based on control volume method. Collocated grid arrangement was appliedwith a SIMPLEC like algorithm for depth-velocity coupling. Power law scheme was used fordiscretization of convection and dif...