In this paper we study the cycle base structures of embedded graphs on surfaces. We first give a sufficient and necessary condition for a set of facial cycles to be contained in a minimum cycle base (or MCB in short) and then set up a 1-1 correspondence between the set of MCBs and the set of collections of nonseparating cycles which are in general positions on surfaces and are of shortest total...

Characterization and in vivo functional analysis of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe 1 ICLN gene 2 3 Adrien Barbarossa, Etienne Antoine, Henry Neel, Thierry Gostan, Johann Soret and Rémy 4 Bordonné 5 6 Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier UMR 5535 CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 7 Université Montpellier 1 and 2, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France 8 9 Corresponding author: remy.bordonne@igmm....

Rodent epigenetic models of early maternal care have demonstrated that natural variations in maternal behavior shape the development of stress reactivity and social behavior in offspring. Rodent models have also revealed the "hidden" regulatory functions of specific dimensions of maternal behavior. Here we present research that has extended rodent models of early care to the study of biobehavio...

The current research investigates the predictors of job satisfaction and motivation in banking industry of Pakistan. Data were collected from the 200 bankers of Middle and Upper management Level by using cross Sessional method, and randomly selected from 6 banks, which includes, Habib Bank Limited( HBL), Allied bank Limited (ABL), MCB Bank Limited (MCB), United Bank Limited(UBL), Bank Alfalah a...

We discuss the use of mechanically controllable break-junctions (MCBs) as electrodes for contacting individual objects such as clusters or molecules. A big advantage of MCB electrodes is the possibility of varying the contact geometry and, accordingly, the contact resistances and the quantum coherent transport properties between the object under study and the electrodes. We compare the suitabil...

Volume 30, no. 11, p. 2681–2692, 2010, https://doi.org/10.1128/MCB.01480-09. We hereby retract this article. After publication, the article was found to have image duplications in Fig. 5A and 6B, which represent a major deviation from established scientific standards for publication. We did not notice the duplication during submission. The first author indicated that it happened during transfer...

Since 1970, a series of systematic investigations have been performed on three modes of moving reaction boundaries (MRBs), viz. moving precipitate boundary (MPB), moving neutralization boundary (MNB) and moving chelation boundary (MCB). So far, there has not been any review on them. Herein, we firstly review the MPB with respect to its velocity, product concentration, elution displacement, stac...

Our contribution is twofold. Firstly, for a system of uncertain linear equations where the uncertainties are column-wise and reside in general convex sets, we show that the intersection of the set of possible solutions and any orthant is convex. We derive a convex representation of this intersection. Secondly, to obtain centered solutions for systems of uncertain linear equations, we compute th...

Tubercle bacilli separated from young cultures were thoroughly extracted with monochlorobenzene at temperatures never exceeding 50 degrees C. From the soluble material, a fraction corresponding to approximately 1 per cent of the total bacillary weight was separated by fractional precipitation with petrolic ether at temperatures of 0 degrees or 4 degrees C.-depending upon the strain of bacilli. ...

The Mantel-Haenszel test is the most frequent asymptotic test used for analyzing stratified 2 × 2 tables. Its exact alternative is the test of Birch, which has recently been reconsidered by Jung. Both tests have a conditional origin: Pearson’s chi-squared test and Fisher’s exact test, respectively. But both tests have the same drawback that the result of global test (the stratified test) may no...