For centuries, many Mediterranean catchments were covered with vineyards in which copper was widely applied to protect grapevines against fungus. In the Mediterranean-type flow regime, brief and intense flood events increase the stream water discharge by up to 10 times and cause soil leaching and storm runoff. Because vineyards are primarily cultivated on steep slopes, high Cu fluxes are discha...

In this work we prove non-trivial impossibility results for perhaps the simplest non-linear estimation problem, that of Group Testing (GT), via the recently developed Madiman-Tetali inequalities. Group Testing concerns itself with identifying a hidden set of d defective items from a set of n items via t disjunctive/pooled measurements (“group tests”). We consider the linear sparsity regime, i.e...

We present simulations of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) power spectrum for a class of mixed, non-Gaussian, primordial random fields. We assume a skew positive mixed model with adiabatic inflation perturbations plus additional isocurvature perturbations possibly produced by topological defects. The joint probability distribution used in this context is a weighted combination o...

The cytotoxic function of polyclonal expanded γ/δ T cells against pamidronate-treated cervical cancer cells in vitro and in vivo were determined. The γ/δ T cells were isolated and purified from PBMCs by using miniMACS and were later treated with 10 μM pamidronate. The expansion of γ/δ T cells was 15 times more than the non-stimulated cells. Among the expanded γ/δ T cells, 47% were Vγ9/Vδ2 T cel...

It is known that for all monotone functions f : {0, 1}n → {0, 1}, if x ∈ {0, 1}n is chosen uniformly at random and y is obtained from x by flipping each of the bits of x independently with probability = n, then P[f(x) 6= f(y)] < cn, for some c > 0. Previously, the best construction of monotone functions satisfying P[fn(x) 6= fn(y)] ≥ δ, where 0 < δ < 1/2, required ≥ c(δ)n, where α = 1 − ln 2/ l...

A numerical study is given on the spectral methods and the high order WENO finite difference scheme for the solution of linear and nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations with stationary and non-stationary singular sources. The singular source term is represented by the δ-function. For the approximation of the δ-function, the direct projection method is used that has been proposed i...

This paper seeks to examine the relationship between education demand and entrepreneurs in the process of enhancing the growth of human capital in China. We develop a theoretical model that incorporates the important roles played by human capital, education and entrepreneurs. Then, we derive an immigration condition under which the demand for education depends on the existence of entrepreneurs....

This choice of H ensures that, for any epoch t, the nonstationary policy At in state st is either Θ( )-optimal, or will reach an unknown state in H steps with probability at least (1 − γ). In either case, the algorithm will reach a next state between step 1 1−γ ln 4 (1−γ) and H , since with probability at least 1− δ′, the waiting time of taking action at in state st is L + 1 C ln 1 δ′ (Lemma 1)...

We analyzed the expression and clinical significance of δ-catenin in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and investigated prognosis using human lung cancer samples. Eighty-nine NSCLC patients underwent operation between January and March 2009. There were 53 cases of squamous cell carcinoma, 31 adenocarcinoma, and 5 large cell carcinoma. δ-Catenin in NSCLC patients was detected by immunohistochem...

Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) participates in transcriptional repression through methylation of histone H3K27. The WD-repeat protein embryonic ectoderm development (EED) is a non-catalytic but an essential component of PRC2 and its mutations were identified in hematopoietic malignancies. To clarify the role(s) of EED in adult hematopoiesis and leukemogenesis, we generated Eed conditional...