The phloem provides a network of sieve tubes for long-distance translocation of photosynthates. For over a century, structural proteins in sieve tubes have presented a conundrum since they presumably increase the hydraulic resistance of the tubes while no potential function other than sieve tube or wound sealing in the case of injury has been suggested. Here we summarize and critically evaluate...

• Per AFNOR Certification guidelines, a preliminary study was conducted where the relative accuracy, linearity, detection and quantification limits, selectivity (inclusivity and exclusivity) and practicability of the Colilert-18/Quanti-Tray method were assessed using samples of distribution water and fountain water spiked with strains of both coliform bacteria and E. coli. All the assessed perf...

This document describes a way to represent Sieve email filtering language scripts in XML. Representing Sieves in XML is intended not as an alternate storage format for Sieve but rather as a means to facilitate manipulation of scripts using XML tools. The XML representation also defines additional elements that have no counterparts in the regular Sieve language. These elements are intended for u...

This document describes a way to represent Sieve email filtering language scripts in XML. Representing Sieves in XML is intended not as an alternate storage format for Sieve but rather as a means to facilitate manipulation of scripts using XML tools. The XML representation also defines additional elements that have no counterparts in the regular Sieve language. These elements are intended for u...

We consider variational problems defined on domains ‘weakly’ connected through a separation hyperplane (‘sieve plane’) by an ε-periodically distributed ‘contact zone’. We study the asymptotic behaviour as ε tends to 0 of integral functionals in such domains in the nonlinear and vector-valued case, showing that the asymptotic memory of the sieve is described by a nonlinear ‘capacitarytype’ formu...

Let \(\varSigma \) and \(\varPi be disjoint alphabets, respectively called the static alphabet parameterized alphabet. Two strings x y over \cup \varPi of equal length are said to match (p-match) if there exists a renaming bijection f on which is identity maps characters those so that two become identical. The indexing version problem finding p-matching occurrences given pattern in text well-st...

Methylisothiazolinone (MI) is a preservative found in cosmetic and industrial products. Contact dermatitis caused by either methylchloroisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone (MCI/MI or Kathon CG) or MI has shown increasing frequency. The latter is preferably detected through epicutaneous testing with aqueous MI 2000 ppm, which is not included in the Brazilian standard tray. We describe a series...

This paper presents sieve inferences on possibly irregular (i.e., slower than root-n estimable) functionals of semi-nonparametric models with i.i.d. data. We provide a simple consistent variance estimator of the plug-in sieve M estimator of a possibly irregular functionals, which implies that the sieve t statistic is asymptotically standard normal. We show that, even for hypothesis testing of i...

We give a new proof of the arithmetic large sieve inequality based on an amplification argument, and use a similar method to prove a new sieve inequality for classical holomorphic cusp forms. A sample application of the latter is also given. 1. The classical large sieve The classical arithmetic large sieve inequality states that, for any real numbers N , Q > 1, any choice of subsets Ωp ⊂ Z/pZ f...