The research work was carried out to evaluate and compare the growth performance and productivity of a strain of silkworm, Bombyx mori (EC1) fed with three different varieties of mulberry plant (K2, S-36 and E-Lobe).The experiment was carried out at ambient conditions 37oC and 55% R.H. The parameters used to evaluate the growth performance were larval length, width and weight while the characte...

The tame kernel of the K2 of a number field F is the kernel of some explicit map K2F → ⊕ k∗ v , where the product runs over all finite primes v of F and kv is the residue class field at v. When S is a set of primes of F , containing the infinite ones, we can consider the S-unit group US of F . Then US ⊗ US has a natural image in K2F . The tame kernel is contained in this image if S contains all...

A (k1, k2)-outdegree-splitting of a digraph D is a partition (V1, V2) of its vertex set such that D[V1] and D[V2] have minimum outdegree at least k1 and k2, respectively. We show that there exists a minimum function fT such that every tournament of minimum outdegree at least fT (k1, k2) has a (k1, k2)outdegree-splitting, and fT (k1, k2) ≤ k 1/2+3k1/2+k2+1. We also show a polynomial-time algorit...

If the correct interpretation of the Super-Kamiokande atmospheric neutrino data is νμ → ντ oscillation, the contained data sample should already have more than 10 τ appearance events. We study the challenging task of detecting the τ , focussing on the decay chain τ → ρ ± → π±π0 in events with quasi-elastic τ production. The background level, which is currently quite uncertain because of a lack ...

We show that there exist knots K ⊂ S with g(E(K)) = 2 and g(E(K#K#K)) = 6. Together with [5, Theorem 1.5], this proves existence of counterexamples to Morimoto’s Conjecture [10]. This is a special case of [6]. Let Ki (i = 1, 2) be knots in the 3-sphere S, and let K1#K2 be their connected sum. We use the notation t(·), E(·), and g(·) to denote tunnel number, exterior, and Heegaard genus respecti...

 a−c−bq1 2b if a−c−bq1 2b < (0 2 + k2)ξ, (0 2 + k2)ξ if a−c−bq1 2b ≥ (0 2 + k2)ξ. Solving for the intersection of the best response functions q 1(q2) and q ∗ 2(q1), we can obtain the equilibrium order quantities and hence the equilibrium profits shown in Lemma 1. Discussion about when a−c 3b( k0 2 +k2) > 1. We observe that when a−c 3b( k0 2 +k2) > 1, there are two cases. Case 1. When a−c b( 3k...

BACKGROUND K2 or "spice" has emerged as a popular legal alternative to marijuana among adolescents and young adults. However, no data has been published assessing prevalence of and associations with ever K2 use in any population. This study's aims were to examine prevalence of ever K2 use among a sample of college students, to determine characteristics of persons who use K2, and to access the a...