We show that a Woodin cardinal is necessary for the Extender Algebra to be complete. Our proof is relatively simple and does not use fine structure.

INTRODUCTION Pilot experiences have suggested that tension forces exerted by a penile extender may reduce penile curvature as a result of Peyronie's disease. AIM To test this hypothesis in a Phase II study using a commonly marketed brand of penile extender. METHODS Peyronie's disease patients with a curvature not exceeding 50 degrees with mild or no erectile dysfunction (ED) were eligible. ...

We examined how the ginseng extract (GE) acts on the antinociceptive effect induced by footshock (FS)-, psychological (PSY)- and forced swimming (SW)-stress (stress-induced analgesia, SIA), and also on the suppression by FS- and PSY-stress of the development of tolerance to morphine in mice. Neither an acute treatment nor 5 daily pretreatments with GE at 100 mg/kg, p.o. affected each SIA. Pretr...

The vibrational dispersion relations of porous germanium (pGe) and germanium nanowires (GeNWs) were calculated using the ab initio density functional perturbation theory with a generalized gradient approximation with norm-conserving pseudopotentials. Both pores and nanowires were modeled using the supercell technique. All of the surface dangling bonds were saturated with hydrogen atoms. To addr...

Genomic exclusion (GE) is an abnormal form of conjugation which has previously been described in detail for three hypodiploid strains of Tetrahymena thermophila. These strains cannot form gametic nuclei and by failing to participate in normal reciprocal fertilization their genes are excluded from exconjugants. To determine whether GE is a general property of infertile strains, we surveyed genet...

In breeding for plant disease resistance programs, a large number of new improved genotypes are tested over a range of test pathogens or environments and the underlying statistics used to model this system may be rather complicated. Due to ordinal nature of most measured traits of disease responses, some nonparametric methods used for analyzing genotype × environment (GE) interaction in two dat...

Background: Semen cryopreservation is the most important section of artificial insemination programs; it allows preservation of semen fertility for a long time. Materials and Methods: The aim of the present study was to detect the effect of in vitro supplementation of 4-hydroxy Tempo on fresh and frozen spermatozoa quality of buffalo bulls. Five healthy buffalo bulls (5 ejaculates from each bul...

Dans cet article, nous explicitons la forme ge ne rale des se ries ge ne ratrices des cartes pointe es sur une surface orientable, e nume re es en fonction des nombres de sommets et de faces. Toutes ces se ries ge ne ratrices sont des se ries rationnelles d'un unique syste me parame trique des variables de nombrant les sommets et les faces. Nous explicitons ces se ries dans le cas des cartes po...