Cichlid fishes have been the subject of increasing scientific interest because of their rapid adaptive radiation that has led to extensive ecological diversity and because of their enormous importance to tropical and subtropical aquaculture. To further understanding of chromosome evolution among cichlid species, we have comparatively mapped the SATA satellite DNA, the transposable element ROn-1...

Nitrogen fixation in Azotobacter vinelandii is regulated by the nifLA operon. NifA activates the transcription of nif genes, while NifL antagonizes the transcriptional activator NifA in response to fixed nitrogen and molecular oxygen levels. However, transcriptional regulation of the nifLA operon of A. vinelandii itself is not fully understood. Using the S1 nuclease assay, we mapped the transcr...

The generalized coupled thermo-viscoelasticity of hollow sphere subjected to thermal symmetric shock load is presented in this paper. To overcome the infinite speed of thermal wave propagation, the Lord-Shulman theory is considered. Two coupled equations, namely, the radial equation of motion and the energy equation of a hollow sphere are obtained in dimensionless form. Resulting equations are ...

This study used particle swarm optimization (PSO) to determine the optimal values of effective design variables acting on the stress distribution around a quasi-triangular hole in an infinite orthotropic plate. These parameters were load angle, hole orientation, bluntness, fiber angle, and material properties, which were ascertained on the basis of an analytical method used by Lekhnitskii [3]. ...

A normed space $mathfrak{X}$ is said to have the fixed point property, if for each nonexpansive mapping $T : E longrightarrow E $ on a nonempty bounded closed convex subset $ E $ of $ mathfrak{X} $ has a fixed point. In this paper, we first show that if $ X $ is a locally compact Hausdorff space then the following are equivalent: (i) $X$ is infinite set, (ii) $C_0(X)$ is infinite dimensional, (...

An original digital signature scheme based on action of infinite ring on module is presented. It is assumed that the ring contains an infinite multiplicative monoid. The ring action is defined as monoid elements's action on the module element as an operator. The signature scheme is based on particularly designed one–way functions (OWFs), using a postulated hard problem in monoid action level. T...

Green’s functions for thermomagnetoelectroelastic problems with a defect of either a wedge boundary or a hole of various shapes embedded in an infinite matrix are considered in this paper. Using Stroh’s formalism, conformal mapping, and perturbation technique, Green’s functions are obtained in closed form for a defect in an infinite magnetoelectroelastic solid induced by the thermal analog of a...

A high order accurate discontinuous galerkin method based curvedelement implementation in OpenFOAM is presented in this work. The degree of freedom points on origin straight side mesh are mapped to curvilinear edges by finding nearest points on boundary. Then the deformation are transported to the inner points by blended method. Based on the run-time dynamic code of OpenFOAM, we design a conven...

How polyphagous herbivores up-regulate their counterdefense genes in response to a broad range of structurally different allelochemicals remains largely unknown. To test whether this is accomplished by having more allelochemical-response elements or the similar number of functionally more diverse elements, we mapped out the cis-acting elements mediating the induction of the allelochemical-metab...