Starch branching enzyme was purified from potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers as a single species of 79 kilodaltons and specific antibodies were prepared against both the native enzyme and against the gel-purified, denatured enzyme. The activity of potato branching enzyme could only be neutralized by antinative potato branching enzyme, whereas both types of antibodies reacted with denatured po...

We provide existence, uniqueness and stability results for affine stochastic Volterra equations with L1-kernels jumps. Such arise as scaling limits of branching processes in population genetics self-exciting Hawkes mathematical finance. The strategy we adopt the existence part is based on approximations using L2-kernels combined a general result. Most importantly, establish weak duality argumen...

Leveraging branch-level data on bank deposits, we provide evidence of a negative impact branching restrictions payout ratios, which occurs only for banks with low charter value, as proxied by the market-to-book ratio. The results ratio extend to Lerner index, return assets, and Z-score, suggesting that risk-shifting incentives drive our rather than signaling or agency costs. Our are robust diff...

Computer Scrabble programs have achieved a level of performance that exceeds that of the strongest human players. MAVEN was the first program to demonstrate this against human opposition. Scrabble is a game of imperfect information with a large branching factor. The techniques successfully applied in two-player games such as chess do not work here. MAVEN combines a selective move generator, sim...

A general and important problem of search-based planning techniques is the state explosion problem, which is usually tackled with approaches to reduce the branching factor of the planning task. Such approaches often implicitly exploit the observation that the number of available operators is higher than the number of operators that are actually needed to find a plan. In this paper, we propose a...

For the critical branching random walk in Z 4 with branching at the origin only we find the asymptotic behavior of the probability of the event that there are particles at the origin at moment t → ∞ and prove a Yaglom type conditional limit theorem for the number of individuals at the origin given that there are particles at the origin.

Although game-tree search works well in perfect-information games, it is less suitable for imperfect-information games such as contract bridge. The lack of knowledge about the opponents' possible moves gives the game tree a very large branching factor, making it impossible to search a signiicant portion of this tree in a reasonable amount of time. This paper describes our approach for overcomin...

Branching morphogenesis is an important developmental process for many organs, including the salivary glands. Whereas epithelial-mesenchymal interactions, which are cell-to-cell communications, are known to drive branching morphogenesis, the molecular mechanisms responsible for those inductive interactions are still largely unknown. Cell growth factors and integrins are known to be regulators o...