Copy number variants (CNV) can be called from SNP-arrays; however, few studies have attempted to combine both CNV and SNP calls to test for association with complex diseases. Even when SNPs are located within CNVs, two separate association analyses are necessary, to compare the distribution of bi-allelic genotypes in cases and controls (referred to as SNP-only strategy) and the number of copies...

Abstract. The topological structure of the QCD vacuum can be probed by monitoring the spatial localization of the low-lying Dirac eigenmodes. This approach can be pursued on the lattice, and unlike the traditional one requires no smoothing of the gauge field. I review recent lattice studies, attempting to extract a consistent description. What emerges is a picture of the vacuum as a “topologica...

Beta carotene and lycopene, the two principal colored carotenoids present in tomato fruit, were measured in mature fruit of parental, F,, F2, and backcross populations derived from an initial cross of an orange-fruited accession of the wild tomato species Lycopersicon cheesmann Riley with the cultivated tomato L esculentum Mill. Segregation patterns for fruit pigmentation and percentage beta ca...

Mitochondrial inheritance is generally assumed to be maternal. However, there is increasing evidence of exceptions to this rule, especially in hybrid crosses. In these cases, mitochondria are also inherited paternally, so "paternal leakage" of mitochondria occurs. It is important to understand these exceptions better, since they potentially complicate or invalidate studies that make use of mito...

We summarize different uses of the eigenmodes of the Neuberger overlap operator for the analysis of the QCD vacuum, here applied to quenched configurations simulated by means of the Lüscher-Weisz action. We describe the localization and chiral properties of the lowest modes. The overlap-based topological charge density (with and without UV-filtering) is compared with the results of UV-filtering...

In a recent study [1] we successfully calculated the mass of the η meson using staggered fermions. According to conventional lore, the η′ receives a large portion of its mass from instanton effects. At the fermionic level, this would mean receiving contributions from zero modes of the Dirac operator. These zero modes come with a definite chirality in the continuum and are associated with the to...

In this paper, a dynamic output feedback switching controller for statedelayed linear systems with input quantization and matched disturbances is proposed. The developed controller consists of linear and nonlinear parts, of which the former is constructed with full dynamics to determine the fundamental characteristics of the output feedback, and the latter eliminates the influence of input quan...

Quality and reliability of product and manufacturing process are the critical factors to the product development. However, to ensure good quality and reliability of the product and to predict any inadequacies of the product, an efficient quality system must be established at the earliest stage of the product development process. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a popular quality tool ...

We analyze the low-lying spectrum and eigenmodes of lattice Dirac operators with a twisted mass term. The twist term expels the eigenvalues from a strip in the complex plane and all eigenmodes obtain a non-vanishing matrix element with γ5. For a twisted Ginsparg-Wilson operator the spectrum is located on two arcs in the complex plane. Modes due to non-trivial topological charge of the underlyin...

After abdominal surgery, sleep patterns are usually disturbed. Eighty-four post-operative pediatric patients were randomized into two groups; intervention and control. Children in the study group received massage intervention for 3 days postoperatively. The study concluded that the children in the study group improved and experienced more relief of sleep disturbances after surgery. The differen...