The transport pathway of specific dietary carotenoids from the midgut lumen to the silk gland in the silkworm, Bombyx mori, is a model system for selective carotenoid transport because several genetic mutants with defects in parts of this pathway have been identified that manifest altered cocoon pigmentation. In the wild-type silkworm, which has both genes, Yellow blood (Y) and Yellow cocoon (C...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multi-organ disorder, which can involve any system of the body, single, or in combination. In the gastrointestinal tract, it can present as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, gastroesophageal reflux, dysphagia, constipation, diarrhea, fecal incontinence, intestinal pseudo-obstruction, perforation, and hemorrhage. Abdominal cocoon or sclerosing-encapsulated...

to compare the performance of fifteen hybrids of silkworm, bombyx mori l. under natural rearing conditions on the farm level and determine their resistance to grasserie disease, an experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design (15 treatments and five replications) for either of non-infected or infected to npv conditions. treatments included hybrids xinhang1?koming1, xinhang1?koming...

We prove the existence of cocoon bifurcations for the Michelson system ẋ = y, ẏ = z, ż = c − y − 1 2 x, ∗Research supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No.17340045), Ministry of Education, Science, Technology, Culture and Sports, Japan. †Research supported by an annual national scholarship for young scientists from the Foundation for Polish Science. ‡Research supported in p...

The 17th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON’2011) took place in Dallas, Texas, USA, August 14–16, 2011. COCOON’2011 provided a forum for researchers working in the areas of Theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and their Applications. Papers accepted for presentations of the conference have been through a tough review process. Each paper received at least...

Building software-defined network controllers is an exercise in software development and, as such, likely to introduce bugs. We present Cocoon, a framework for SDN development that facilitates both the design and verification of complex networks using stepwise refinement to move from a high-level specification to the final network implementation. A Cocoon user specifies intermediate design leve...

Host manipulation by parasites and parasitoids is a fascinating phenomenon within evolutionary ecology, representing an example of extended phenotypes. To elucidate the mechanism of host manipulation, revealing the origin and function of the invoked actions is essential. Our study focused on the ichneumonid spider ectoparasitoid Reclinervellus nielseni, which turns its host spider (Cyclosa arge...

The COCOON project was intended to extend the concepts and the architecture of relational database management systems (DBMSs) beyond nested relational to object-oriented ones. Based upon the nested relational DBMS kernel DASDBS, we have built a prototype implementation of the COCOON model. Key characteristics of COCOON are: generic, set-oriented query and update operators similar to relational ...

Growth (length, biomass and mean growth rate) and reproduction (total duration, clitellum appearance, clitellum completion, cocoon commencement, rate of cocoon production, incubation period, hatching success and mean number of hatching per cocoon) of indigenous Lampito mauritii (Kinberg) in comparison with exotic Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg) cultured on three feed substrates-clay loam soil, cowd...