Masakazu IWAMURA†, Seiichi UCHIDA††, Shinichiro OMACHI†††, and Koichi KISE† † Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University 1–1 Gakuencho, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599–8531 Japan †† Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 812-8581 Japan ††† Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University 6–6–05 Aoba, Aramaki...

†Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba 6-6-05, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980-8579 Japan E-mail: [email protected] ††Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599-8531 Japan E-mail: {masa, kise}@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp †††Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University 744 Motooka, Nis...

It is well-known that Catalan numbers Cn = 1 n+1 ( 2n n ) count the number of dominant regions in the Shi arrangement of type A, and that they also count partitions which are both n-cores as well as (n + 1)-cores. These concepts have natural extensions, which we call here the m-Catalan numbers and m-Shi arrangement. In this paper, we construct a bijection between dominant regions of the m-Shi a...

BACKGROUND Empirical evidence on how ownership type affects the quality and cost of medical care is growing, and debate on these topics is ongoing. Despite the fact that the private sector is a major provider of hospital services in Greece, little comparative information on private versus public sector hospitals is available. The aim of the present study was to describe and compare the operatio...

OBJECTIVE Short stature caused by point mutations or deletions of the short stature homeobox (SHOX) gene (SHOX haploinsufficiency (SHI)) is a registered indication for GH treatment. Patients with a SHOX enhancer deletion (SED) have a similar phenotype, but their response to GH is unknown. It is uncertain if duplications of SHOX or its enhancer (SDUP) cause short stature. This study aimed to des...

Four Valiatrella species, Valiatrella pulchra (Gorochov, 1985), Valiatrella sororia (Gorochov, 2002), Valiatrella laminaria Liu & Shi, 2007 and Valiatrella multiprotubera Liu & Shi, 2007, recorded from China are reviewed. A new species, Valiatrella persicifolius sp. nov., is described and illustrated.