We have bandmerged candidate transiting planetary systems (from the Kepler satellite) and confirmed transiting planetary systems (from the literature) with the recent Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) preliminary release catalog. We have found 13 stars showing infrared excesses at either 12 μm and/or 22 μm. Without longer wavelength observations it is not possible to conclusively deter...

The main purpose of this article is to present several new statistical tests of neutrality of mutations against a class of alternative models, under which DNA polymorphisms tend to exhibit excesses of rare alleles or young mutations. Another purpose is to study the powers of existing and newly developed tests and to examine the detailed pattern of polymorphisms under population growth, genetic ...

We solve numerically a kinetic model of chiral polymerization in systems closed to matter and energy flow, paying special attention to its ability to amplify the small initial enantiomeric excesses due to the internal and unavoidable statistical fluctuations. The reaction steps are assumed to be reversible, implying a thermodynamic constraint among some of the rate constants. Absolute asymmetri...

Diamond is the first mineral type of presolar grains that were isolated from meteorites, yet it is one of the least understood presolar grain types. An isotopically anomalous component Xe-HL is carried by diamond and is characterized by excesses in both the light, p-process only isotopes (124 and 126) and the heavy, r-process only isotopes (134 and 136). These excesses are always correlated alt...

An ion microprobe ha~ been. used to observe Mg/"Mg in excess of normal values in anorthite crystals from Allende refractory mclus10ns. In one crystal, Mg excesses up to 40% above normal, correlated with AI/Mg, were. obser_ved. These ~xc~sses are many times larger than those observed by other techniques. T_he _correla~10n with Al(Mg mdicated tha_t the excess '"Mg in the Allende anorthite is unif...

Abstract In this paper, we searched for the dust formation evidence of 66 supernovae (SNe) by using blackbody model and plus emission to fit their early-time optical–near-infrared (NIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs). We find that, while can most SEDs SNe in our sample, cannot some which two (SNe 2010bq 2012ca) show NIR excesses be attributed from heated dust. use showing excesses, findin...

Two issues in the evolution of the intron/exon structure of genes are the role of exon shuffling and the origin of introns. Using a large data base of eukaryotic intron-containing genes, we have found that there are correlations between intron phases leading to an excess of symmetric exons and symmetric exon sets. We interpret these excesses as manifestations of exon shuffling and make a conser...

A method for collecting cancer-incidence data in a rural town is described. A mail survey, prompted and conducted by concerned citizens, was utilized. When analyzed in light of local mortality data and national cancer incidence and mortality rates, the data collected in such a survey seem reasonably accurate and complete. The numbers of observed and expected incident cases, as well as the numbe...

In this paper we propose a new rule to allocate risk capital to portfolios or divisions within a firm. Specifically, we determine the capital allocation that minimizes the excesses of sets of portfolios in a lexicographical sense. The excess of a set of portfolios is defined as the expected loss of that set of portfolios in excess of the amount of risk capital allocated to them. The underlying ...

Magmas erupted at mid-ocean ridges (MORB) result from decompression melting of upwelling mantle. However, the mechanism of melt transport from the source region to the surface is poorly understood. It is debated whether melt is transported through melt-filled conduits or cracks on short time scales ( 10 yrs), or whether there is a significant component of slow, equilibrium porous flow on much l...