We compute the skewness t3 and the corresponding hierarchical amplitude T3 of the divergence of the velocity field for arbitrary non-Gaussian initial conditions. We find that T3 qualitatively resembles the corresponding hierarchical amplitude for the density field, S3, in that it contains a term proportional to the initial skewness, which decays inversely as the linear growth factor, plus a con...

In the IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) cloud environment where virtual machines are deployed, a scalable and reliable storage service is indispensable for hosting virtual machine images, backups, large volumes of application data, etc. Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) [3] is one of the storage services to meet such demands for Amazon EC2 [2] users. Swift [9] takes the similar role in OpenS...

LET S3 G S’ denote the twisted S3 bundle over S’. In this paper we will demonstrate an imbedding of a 2-sphere f:S* 4 S3 G S’ #S* x S* such that twisting S3 g S’ #S’ x S* along f(S*) (Gluck construction) produces a fake manifold M4. In fact M4 coincides with the fake S3 2 S’ #S* x S*‘s of [l] and 123. More specifically, if IV;= M-int(B3 g S’) (a fake B3 z S’ # S* x S*) and Q4 is the Cappell-Sha...

Partial limbic seizures in rodents induced by pilocarpine progress from stages I-II (mouth and facial movements; head nodding) to stage III (forelimb clonus) and then progress rapidly to stages IV-V (generalized limbic seizures; rearing, and rearing with falling) followed by status epilepticus (SE). Although limbic seizures in rodents are terminated by benzodiazepines, a group of gamma-aminobut...

Eukaryotic ribosomes assemble by association of ribosomal RNA with ribosomal proteins into nuclear precursor particles, which undergo a complex maturation pathway coordinated by non-ribosomal assembly factors. Here, we provide functional insights into how successive structural re-arrangements in ribosomal protein S3 promote maturation of the 40S ribosomal subunit. We show that S3 dimerizes and ...

A soluble membrane component of type III pneumococcal polysaccharide-coupled spleen cells (S3-SCSM) induces S3-specific suppressor T cells (Ts) in mice. These Ts can be detected only if mice are pretreated with cyclophosphamide (Cy) or if cells adherent to the lectin Vicia villosa are removed from the spleen cell population prior to transfer. The V. villosa-adherent spleen cells from mice injec...

BACKGROUND A physiological third heart sound (S3) is common in youth but allegedly very rare after the age of 40 years. The mechanism of its disappearance is not known. The aim of this work was to study the prevalence and predictors of physiological S3 in a population-based sample of persons approaching 40 years of age. METHODS AND RESULTS A random sample of 120 persons born in 1954 was invit...

Observational data hint at a finite universe, with spherical manifolds such as the Poincaré dodecahedral space tentatively providing the best fit. Simulating the physics of a model universe requires knowing the eigenmodes of the Laplace operator on the space. The present article provides explicit polynomial eigenmodes for all globally homogeneous 3-manifolds: the Poincaré dodecahedral space S3/...

We prove that an integral homology 3–sphere is S3 if and only if it admits four periodic diffeomorphisms of odd prime orders whose space of orbits is S3 . As an application we show that an irreducible integral homology sphere which is not S3 is the cyclic branched cover of odd prime order of at most four knots in S3 . A result on the structure of finite groups of odd order acting on integral ho...