Insect herbivory has variable consequences on plant physiology, growth, and reproduction. In some plants, herbivory reduces photosynthetic rate (Pn) activity on remaining tissue of injured leaves. We sought to better understand the influence of leaf injury on Pn of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca (Asclepiadaceae), leaves. Initially, we tested whether Pn reductions occurred after insect herbi...

OBJECTIVES Locally advanced thymoma can often involve the phrenic nerve (PN) due to its location on the mediastinal pleura. However, en bloc resection including the PN may cause severe postoperative complications, especially in myasthenia gravis patients. The aim of the study was to determine whether a PN involved could be spared during thymoma resection. METHODS A retrospective study was con...

Let P1, . . . ,Pn be properties of graphs. A (P1, . . . ,Pn)-partition of a graph G is a partition {V1, . . . , Vn} of V (G) such that, for each i = 1, . . . , n, the subgraph of G induced by Vi has property Pi. If a graph G has a unique (P1, . . . ,Pn)-partition we say it is uniquely (P1, . . . ,Pn)partitionable. We establish best lower bounds for the order of uniquely (P1, . . . ,Pn)-partitio...

Celem badania jest ocenia różnic w postrzeganiu sąsiedztwa parków narodowych (PN) Euroregionie Pomerania przez mieszkańców Polski i Niemiec. Do klasyfikacji na podstawie ich odpowiedzi pytania ankietowe wykorzystano metodę drzew klasyfikacyjnych. Otrzymane wyniki świadczą, że Polacy Niemcy różnią się pod względem postrzegania narodowych. Są to: źródła pozyskiwania informacji o PN, ocena znaczen...

1. Summary of key principles 2. Partner notification 3. Aim 4. Audience 5. Competency in PN provision 6. Offering PN 7. Infections for which PN should be offered and look-back intervals 8. Table showing look-back intervals for partner notification and where epidemiological treatment is recommended 9. Agreed contact actions 10. PN resolution 11. Legal issues regarding sharing of information betw...

The paper introduces a new proof-number (PN) search algorithm, called PDS-PN. It is a two-level search, which performs at the first level a depth-first Proof-number and Disproof-number Search (PDS), and at the second level a best-first PN search. First, we thoroughly investigate four established algorithms in the domain of LOA endgame positions: PN, PN, PDS and αβ search. It turns out that PN a...

— We characterize intrinsically two classes of manifolds that can be properly embedded into spaces of the form PN \ PN−q . The first theorem is a compactification theorem for pseudoconcave manifolds that can be realized as X \ (X ∩ PN−q) where X ⊂ PN is a projective variety. The second theorem is an embedding theorem for holomorphically convex manifolds into P1 × CN . Résumé. — On caractérise i...

OBJECTIVE To describe the side effects of bortezomib in treatment of multiple myeloma (MM), especially the incidence of peripheral neuropathy (PN). METHODS Information of 107 patients with MM who were treated with bortezomib in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University from 2009 to 2014, were collected and analyzed retrospectively, to analyze the occurrence of adverse events during...

Let n = (n1, . . . , nr). The quotient space Pn := S n1× · · ·×Snr/(x ∼ −x) is what we call a projective product space. We determine the integral cohomology ring H∗(Pn) and the action of the Steenrod algebra on H∗(Pn;Z2). We give a splitting of ΣPn in terms of stunted real projective spaces, and determine the ring K∗(Pn). We relate the immersion dimension and span of Pn to the much-studied sect...