W1, W3, W4, and Wm genes control flower color, whereas T and Td genes control pubescence color in soybean. W1, W3, Wm, and T are presumed to encode flavonoid 3'5'-hydroxylase (EC 1.14.13.88), dihydroflavonol 4-reductase (EC 1.1.1.219), flavonol synthase (EC 1.14.11.23), and flavonoid 3'-hydroxylase (EC 1.14.13.21), respectively. The objective of this study was to determine the structure of the ...

Communal strength refers to a person’s degree of motivation to respond to a communal partner’s needs. The development and testing of a questionnaire measure of communal strength is described. Study 1 involved item selection. Studies 2 and 3 found that the 10-item communal strength measure taps a construct distinct from behavioral interdependence as measured by the Relationship Closeness Invento...

POLYCYSTIN-2 CATION CHANNEL FUNCTION IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF MICROTUBULAR STRUCTURES IN PRIMARY CILIA OF RENAL EPITHELIAL CELLS Qiang Li*, Nicolás Montalbetti*, Yuliang Wu, Arnolt Ramos, Malay K. Raychowdhury, Xing-Zhen Chen and Horacio F. Cantiello From the Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2H7, Canada; the Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos, Departamento de Fisicoquím...

With 50 species of the genus Nepenthes L. currently described from the Philippines, it is without doubt that the country, along with the islands of Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei), should be considered the center of diversity of the genus. In this work, we describe two new species. One species, N. aenigma sp. nov., is from Ilocos Norte province on Luzon Island and h...

In the early eighties, López, González-Arroyo and the present author proved that, if at a given Q 2 0 large enough for perturbative QCD to be valid, structure functions behave as a power of x for x → 0, then for all larger Q

In this paper we investigate some questions about coordination and interpretation which have been addressed by bidirectional Optimality Theory (Bi–OT). We consider examples from anaphora resolution, and there especially the role of epistemic contexts and expectations. We look at communicative acts as joint projects following H.H. Clark (1996) and model them by using multi–agent systems with joi...

Semi-regular 4–8 meshes are refinable triangulated quadrangulations. They provide a powerful hierarchical structure for multiresolution applications. In this paper, we show how to decompose the DooSabin and Catmull-Clark subdivision schemes using 4–8 refinement. The proposed technique makes it possible to use these classical subdivision surfaces with semi-regular 4–8 meshes. Additional

We present a unified approach to subdivision algorithms for meshes with arbitrary topology which admits a rigorous analysis of the generated surface and give a sufficient condition for the regularity of the surface, i.e. for the existence of a regular smooth parametrization near the extraordinary point. The criterion is easily applicable to all known algorithms such as those of Doo-Sabin and Ca...

Midpoint subdivision generalizes the Lane-Riesenfeld algorithm for uniform tensor product splines and can also be applied to non regular meshes. For example, midpoint subdivision of degree 2 is a specific Doo-Sabin algorithm and midpoint subdivision of degree 3 is a specific Catmull-Clark algorithm. In 2001, Zorin and Schröder were able to prove C1-continuity for midpoint subdivision surfaces a...