Locating users as they move from one place to another in a cellular network is a key issue that allows unrestricted mobility, yet poses several challenging constraints to the network designers. In this paper, an enhanced adaptive location update scheme is proposed to decrease the total cost of the location management process. The proposed scheme relies on the deployment of a direction based loc...

Sexual conflict at loci influencing traits shared between the sexes occurs when sex-specific selection pressures are antagonistic relative to the genetic correlation between the sexes. To assess whether there is sexual conflict over shared traits, we estimated heritability and intersexual genetic correlations for highly sexually dimorphic traits (horn volume and body mass) in a wild population ...

A type of closed exterior algebra in R3 under the cross product is revealed to hold between differential forms from the three Whittaker scalar potentials, associated with the fields of a moving electron. A special algebraic structure is revealed in the context of Clebsch reparametrization of these scalars, and a special prescription for the construction of permutation invariant electromagnetic ...

Characterizing the distribution of selection coefficients in natural populations remains a central challenge in evolutionary biology. We resequenced a subset of 19 fast-evolving protein-coding genes in the sister species Drosophila miranda and D. pseudoobscura and their flanking regions to characterize the spatial footprint left by recurrent and recent selection. Consistent with previous findin...

We develop a new method for estimating effective population sizes, Ne, and selection coefficients, s, from time-series data of allele frequencies sampled from a single diallelic locus. The method is based on calculating transition probabilities, using a numerical solution of the diffusion process, and assuming independent binomial sampling from this diffusion process at each time point. We appl...

This paper is on the homotopy classification of maps of (n+1)-dimensional manifolds into the n-dimensional sphere. For a continuous map f : M → S define the degree deg f ∈ H1(M;Z) to be the class dual to f[S], where [S] ∈ H(S;Z) is the fundamental class. We present a short and direct proof of the following specific case of the Pontryagin-Steenrod-Wu theorem: Theorem. Let M be a connected orient...

Read-copy update (RCU) is a light-weight synchronization mechanism that has been used in production for well over a decade, most recently, as part of the Linux kernel. Although RCU is well-understood in the sense that practitioners are able to make good use of it without special training, there are a number of intriguing open questions related to RCU. This paper introduces a number of such ques...