If f is an entire function and a complex number, said to be asymptotic value of if there exists path $$\gamma $$ from 0 infinity such that $$f(z) - a$$ tends as z along . The Denjoy–Carleman–Ahlfors Theorem asserts has n distinct values, then the rate growth at least order n/2, mean type. A long-standing problem asks whether this conclusion holds for functions having (entire) functions, each mo...

BACKGROUND We aimed to estimate the median ages at specific stages of sexual maturity stratified by excess weight in boys and girls. MATERIALS AND METHOD This was a cross-sectional study made in 2007 in Florianopolis, Brazil, with 2,339 schoolchildren between 8 to 14 years of age (1,107 boys) selected at random in two steps (by region and type of school). The schoolchildren were divided into:...

The genera Gredzinskiya Dworakowska and Musbrnoia Dworakowska are revised and seven new species are described: Gredzinskiya lamellaris, G. serrata, G. spinalis, G. zhangae, Musbrnoia angusta, M. corollaris and M. lata spp. nov.. Habitus photos, illustrations of male genitalia and keys to adult males for both genera are provided.

Profile Hidden Markov Models (PHMMs) are recognized as powerful computational vehicles for homology search of protein sequences. Extant PHMM training approaches either use completely unaligned or aligned sequences. The PHMMs resulting from these two training approaches present contrasting tradeoffs w.r.t. alignment information and the accuracy of the search outcome. This paper describes a PHMM ...

'BLAST 2 Sequences', a new BLAST-based tool for aligning two protein or nucleotide sequences, is described. While the standard BLAST program is widely used to search for homologous sequences in nucleotide and protein databases, one often needs to compare only two sequences that are already known to be homologous, coming from related species or, e.g. different isolates of the same virus. In such...

SUMMARY Exhaustive mapping of next-generation sequencing data to a set of relevant reference sequences becomes an important task in pathogen discovery and metagenomic classification. However, the runtime and memory usage increase as the number of reference sequences and the repeat content among these sequences increase. In many applications, read mapping time dominates the entire application. W...

Introduction It has been shown that 3D P CSI sequences can be used to enhance spatial coil coverage of the single-channel coil to aquire 3D P spectrscopic data [1]. Furthermore, multi-channel P phased-array coils can be used to acquire data from the entire abdominal slice using a 2D CSI sequence [2]. If the coil is large enough to wrap around the entire liver, 3D MR spectroscpic data can also b...

A face irregular entire k-labeling φ : V ∪E ∪F → {1,2, . . . ,k} of a 2-connected plane graph G = (V,E,F) is a labeling of vertices, edges and faces of G in such a way that for any two different faces f and g their weights wφ ( f ) and wφ (g) are distinct. The weight of a face f under a k-labeling φ is the sum of labels carried by that face and all the edges and vertices incident with the face....