Let D be the open unit disk of the complex plane. Its boundary, the unit circle of the complex plane, is denoted by ∂D. Let Kn := ( pn : pn(z) = n X k=0 akz , ak ∈ C , |ak| = 1 ) . The class Kn is often called the collection of all (complex) unimodular polynomials of degree n. Given a sequence (εn) of positive numbers tending to 0, we say that a sequence (Pn) of unimodular polynomials Pn ∈ Kn i...

Four experiments were conducted to determine the effect of feeding dried pine needles (Pinus ponderosa; PN) on the abortion rate of ruminants. In Exp. 1, cattle were fed 5.4 kg of PN daily for 21 d starting at 116, 167, 215, or 254 d of pregnancy. The PN did not cause abortions when started at 116 d; thereafter, the percentage of cows that aborted increased linearly, and the interval to abortio...

Pregnant cows were fed pine needles (PN, 2 kg.cow-1.d-1) mixed with the diet to determine factors that affect abortion response. In Exp. 1, treatments were used to determine the effects of experimental stress and pelleting of pine needles. Pelleting needles and experimental stress delayed abortion response (P < .01). Stress-induced delay was associated with abnormal patterns of progesterone and...

Protease nexin-1 (PN-1) is a serine protease inhibitor belonging to the serpin superfamily. This study was undertaken to investigate the regulatory role of PN-1 in the pathogenesis of intervertebral disk (IVD) degeneration. Expression of PN-1 was detected in human IVD tissue of varying grades. Expression of both PN-1 mRNA and protein was significantly decreased in degenerated IVD, and the expre...

Protease nexin-1 (PN-1) is a serpin that inhibits plasminogen activators, plasmin, and thrombin. PN-1 is barely detectable in plasma but is expressed by platelets. Here, we studied platelet PN-1 in resting and activated conditions and its function in thrombosis. Studies on human platelets from healthy donors and from patients with a Gray platelet syndrome demonstrate that PN-1 is present both a...

CONTEXT The gained expertise in the surgical technique of partial nephrectomy (PN) with excellent oncologic outcome and reduced morbidity has contributed to more frequent use of PN in many centres of reference, and the recent evidence favouring PN over radical nephrectomy (RN) in the prevention of chronic kidney disease and possibly linking it to a better overall survival (OS) will constitute a...

Erythrocyte maturation is accompanied by RNAdegradation and release of mononucleotides. We have previously purified PN-I, a pyrimidine nucleotidase whose deficiency is associated with hemolytic anemia. Computer-aided analysis of PN-I tryptic and CNBr peptide sequences revealed substantial identity with tryptic peptide sequences reported for p36, an a-interferon-induced protein. PN-I partial seq...

The algebra Sn of one-sided inverses of a polynomial algebra Pn in n variables is obtained from Pn by adding commuting, left (but not two-sided) inverses of the canonical generators of the algebra Pn. Ignoring non-Noetherian property, the algebra Sn belongs to a family of algebras like the nth Weyl algebra An and the polynomial algebra P2n. Explicit generators are found for the group Gn of auto...

In this article we provide a version of Chow's theorem for real analytic Levi-flat hypersurfaces in the complex projective space Pn, n≥2. More specifically, prove that hypersurface M⊂Pn, with singular set dimension at most 2n−4 and whose Levi leaves are contained algebraic hypersurfaces, is tangent to levels rational function Pn. As consequence, M semialgebraic set. We also foliation on Pn — im...