I The abbreviations used in this report are: TMG, thiomethyl3-d-galactopyranoside; Tris, tris-(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane; ATP, adenosine triphosphate; ADP, adenosine diphosphate; UDP, GDP, CDP, UTP, GTP, CTP, diand triphosphates of uridine, guanine, and cytidine; TCA, trichloroacetic acid; RNase, ribonuclease; 1)Nase, deoxyribonuclease; cpm, counts per minute; DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid; CP, ...

The genus Polistes is revised for the West Palaearctic region based on morphology and DNA barcodes. The revision includes all known West Palaearctic species, raising the number of species in Europe to 14 and to 17 for the West Palaearctic realm. DNA barcodes were recovered from 15 species, 14 of which belong to the subgenus Polistes, and one, P. wattii, to the subgenus Gyrostoma. An integrative...

We investigate the notion of Connes-amenability, introduced by Runde in [14], for bidual algebras and weighted semigroup algebras. We provide some simplifications to the notion of a σWC-virtual diagonal, as introduced in [10], especially in the case of the bidual of an Arens regular Banach algebra. We apply these results to discrete, weighted, weakly cancellative semigroup algebras, showing tha...

Arens R, Muzumdar H. Childhood obesity and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. J Appl Physiol 108: 436–444, 2010. First published October 29, 2009; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00689.2009.—The increasing prevalence of obesity in children seems to be associated with an increased prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in children. Possible pathophysiological mechanisms contributing to th...

LetX and Y be vector spaces over the same field K. Following the terminology of Richard Arens [Pacific J. Math. 11 (1961), 9–23], a relation F of X into Y is called linear if λF (x) ⊂ F (λx) and F (x) + F (y) ⊂ F (x+ y) for all λ ∈ K \ {0} and x, y ∈ X. After improving and supplementing some former results on linear relations, we show that a relation Φ of a linearly independent subset E of X in...

satisfying zZ\ \^A < °°, if and only if f is) is bounded away from zero in the half-plane 0-3:0. This discovery amounts to a determination of the spectrum of the Banach-algebra element associated with fis), and it thus makes available for the theory of ordinary Dirichlet series the well-known theorem of Gelfand on analytic functions of Banach-algebra elements (see §24D of [7]) and its generaliz...

I. Amon~ the various traditions established in computer processing of natural language during the twenty-odd years of research the understanding thet any such processing is to be done sequentially has a special status. Even the most advanced natural language processing systems employ the sequential mode as a necessary evil, or do not even consider it an evil due to the ostensible lack of altern...

Semiotics also includes the general principles that underlie all sign systems. It is thus more comprehensive than linguistics--very much more, because there is a semiotic dimension to practically every human artifact. (Indeed, since we can 'read in' meanings to natural events, e.g., as in 'the lack of rain shows God's displeasure,' semiotics is not even limited to human artifacts.) In recent ye...

Let G be a locally compact group. Consider the Banach algebra L1(G) ∗∗, equipped with the first Arens multiplication, as well as the algebra LUC(G)∗, the dual of the space of bounded left uniformly continuous functions on G, whose product extends the convolution in the measure algebra M(G). We present (for the most interesting case of a non-compact group) completely different – in particular, d...