The low number density of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) suggests that LRGs occupying the same dark matter halo can be separated from pairs occupying distinct dark matter halos with high fidelity. We present a new technique, Counts-in-Cylinders (CiC), to constrain the parameters of the satellite contribution to the LRG Halo-Occupation Distribution (HOD). For a ...

Heterotrophic plate count (HPC) constitutes a common indicator for monitoring of microbiological water quality in distribution systems (DS). This paper aims to identify factors explaining the spatiotemporal distribution of heterotrophic bacteria and model their occurrence in the distribution system. The case under study is the DS of Quebec City, Canada. The study is based on a robust database r...

Fragile histidine triad (FHIT) serves a critical function as a tumor suppressor that inhibits p53 degradation by mouse double minute 2 (MDM2). The functional domains of FHIT involved in tumor inhibition was interpreted. In-silico screening data were employed to construct truncated forms of FHIT to assess their cytotoxic effects on the HT1080 cell line. Full FHIT expression was confirmed by west...

We know that the slope of the radial, stellar light distribution in galaxies is well described by an exponential decline and this distribution is often truncated at a break radius (Rbr). We don’t have a clear understanding for the origin of these outer truncations and several hypotheses have been proposed to explain them. We want to test the various theories with direct observations of the cold...

To determine the safety stock required to achieve a desired service level, demands are commonly assumed to follow a normal probability distribution. However, since demands are necessarily truncated at values below zero, this paper will show that this approach underestimates the actual demand level and results in achieved service levels that are less than those targeted. Use of a left-truncated ...

Is every edge unfolding of every Platonic solid overlapfree? The answer is yes. In other words, if we develop a Platonic solid by cutting along its edges, we always obtain a flat nonoverlapping simple polygon. We also give self-overlapping general unfoldings of Platonic solids other than the tetrahedron (i.e., a cube, an octahedron, a dodecahedron, and an icosahedron), and edge unfoldings of so...

In present study, the effect of reservoir length on seismic performance of concrete gravity dam has been investigated. Monte Carlo probabilistic analysis has been used to achieve a sensitivity of the responses to variation of truncated reservoir length in finite element model. The ANSYS software based on finite element method is applied for modeling and analysis. The Pine Flat dam in California...

The accurate estimation of true prevalence and concentration of microorganisms in foods is an important element of quantitative microbiological risk assessment (QMRA). This estimation is often based on microbial detection and enumeration data. Among such data are artificial zero counts, that originated by chance from contaminated food products. When these products are not differentiated from un...

Erdős posed the problem of how many random subsets need to be chosen from a set of n elements, each element appearing in each subset with probability p = 1/2, in order that at least one subset is contained in another. Rényi answered this question, but could not determine the limiting probability distribution for the number of subset counts because the higher moments diverge to infinity. The mod...