Background: Recent studies have revealed that adiponectin, a novel adipocytokine, and its two receptors (AdipoR1 and AdipoR2) are involved in regulation of ovarian function in various farm animal species. The aim of this study was to investigate the gene expression pattern of Adiponectin and its receptors in ovarian cells of dominant (DFs) and non- dominant follicles (NDFs) in the bovine. Mater...

This paper presents the Cholesky factor–alternating direction implicit (CF–ADI) algorithm, which generates a low rank approximation to the solution X of the Lyapunov equation AX + XAT = −BBT . The coefficient matrix A is assumed to be large, and the rank of the righthand side −BBT is assumed to be much smaller than the size of A. The CF–ADI algorithm requires only matrix-vector products and mat...

PURPOSE To determine whether the Na+-K+-2Cl- symport or the parallel Na+/H+ and Cl-/HCO3- antiports provide the dominant pathway for NaCl uptake into the ciliary epithelium. Both pathways are known to support NaCl entry from the stroma into the pigmented ciliary epithelial (PE) cells, after which Na+ and Cl- diffuse across the gap junctions into the nonpigmented ciliary epithelial (NPE) cells a...

Motivation. The recent literature on mechanism design provides a series of studies on robustness issues, motivated by the idea that a desirable mechanism should not rely too heavily on the agents’ common knowledge structure (Wilson, 1985). One approach is to adopt stronger solution concepts that are insensitive to various common knowledge assumptions, such as dominant-strategy incentive compati...

Objective: A quantitative analysis of scalp electric ®elds in patients suffering from pharmacoresistant temporal lobe epilepsy was performed in order to study the development of rhythmic ictal activities over time. Methods: A method that calculates phase-corrected voltage maps in the frequency domain (FFT-approximation) was applied to ictal multichannel recordings in 10 epileptic patients. The ...

Skyline queries have recently attracted a lot of attention for its intuitive query formulation. It can act as a filter to discard sub-optimal objects. However, a major drawback of skyline is that, in datasets with many dimensions, the number of skyline objects becomes large and no longer offer any interesting insights. To solve the problem, k-dominant skyline queries have been introduced, which...