In this paper we consider a family of dynamical systems (“arabesques”) defined as closed chains of 2-element negative circuits. An n-dimensional arabesque system has n 2-element circuits, but in addition, it displays by construction, two n-element circuits which are both positive vs one positive, one negative, depending on the parity (even vs odd) of the dimensionality n. In view of the absence...

decorative arts have got a special place in iranian architecture traditionally. these types of arts are the symbol of nation's ethnics and indigenous features and also express the artist's feelings of those times. stucco is one type of the decorative arts that has decorated many buildings -especially palaces-that belong to the pre-islamic period and also mosques that built in the isla...

Filamentous growth and the capacity at producing conidia are two critical aspects of most fungal life cycles, including that of many plant or animal pathogens. Here, we report on the identification of a homeobox transcription factor encoding gene that plays a role in these two particular aspects of the development of the phytopathogenic fungus Botrytis cinerea. Deletion of the BcHOX8 gene in bo...

Distributed data processing platforms such as MapReduce and Pregel have substantially simplified the design and deployment of certain classes of distributed graph analytics algorithms. However, these platforms do not represent a good match for distributed graph mining problems, as for example finding frequent subgraphs in a graph. Given an input graph, these problems require exploring a very la...

Japanese silver grass (Miscanthus sinensis) and 14 cultivars were transplanted in northern and southern Florida and evaluated for landscape performance, fl owering, growth, and seed viability. All plants survived the 84-week study at both locations with the exception of ‘Morning Light’, where 22% to 33% of the plants died. In northern and southern Florida, ‘Arabesque’, ‘Adagio’, ‘Cosmopolitan’,...