The prion agent is notoriously resistant to common proteases and conventional sterilisation procedures. The current methods known to destroy prion infectivity such as incineration, alkaline and thermal hydrolysis are harsh, destructive, environmentally polluting and potentially hazardous, thus limit their applications for decontamination of delicate medical and laboratory devices, remediation o...

Drought stress at the reproductive stage in rice is one of most important cause for yield reduction, affecting both productivity and quality. All Basmati varieties, including popular cultivar “Pusa 1 (PB1)” highly sensitive to drought (RSDS). We report first time, improvement a RSDS tolerance, with introgression major quantitative trait locus (QTL), “qDTY1.1” into PB1. The QTL was sourced from ...

A well-known conjecture states that a random symmetric n×n matrix with entries in {−1,1} is singular probability Θ(n22−n). We prove the of this event at most exp(−Ω(n)), improving best-known bound exp(−Ω(n1∕4 logn)), which was obtained recently by Ferber and Jain. The main new ingredient an inverse Littlewood–Offord theorem Zpn applies under very mild conditions, whose statement inspired method...

Domain adaptation is a challenge for supervised NLP systems because of expensive and time-consuming manual annotated resources. We present a novel method to adapt a supervised coreference resolution system trained on newswire to short narrative stories without retraining the system. The idea is to perform inference via an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) formulation with the features of narrati...

The effects on sucrose yield of varying the time interval between Ethrel and Fusilade Super applications in a combination treatment were tested on variety NC0376. Results suggested that Ethrel applied 12 weeks, and Fusilade Super applied eight weeks before harvesting were the most beneficial. Other varieties which responded to a combination treatment were N19, N12 and N22. Varieties N14, N19, N...