‎We prove that there do not exist totally contact umbilical‎ ‎proper slant lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Sasakian manifolds other than totally contact geodesic‎ ‎proper slant lightlike submanifolds‎. ‎We also prove that there do‎ ‎not exist totally contact umbilical proper slant lightlike‎ ‎submanifolds of indefinite Sasakian space forms‎.

To test the hypothesis that changes in the expression of the glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) and the beta(2)-adrenoceptor (beta(2)-AR) contribute significantly to the abnormal glucose metabolism in skeletal muscle from patients with Type II diabetes, we have examined (1) the levels of total GCR (alpha+beta isoforms), the alpha/alpha 2 isoform of GCR and beta(2)-AR mRNAs in skeletal muscle from in...

This article concerned on the study of signature submanifolds for curves under Lie group actions SE(2), SA(2) and for surfaces under SE(3). Signature submanifold is a regular submanifold which its coordinate components are differential invariants of an associated manifold under Lie group action, and therefore signature submanifold is a key for solving equivalence problems.

We present a method to include watermarks in printed images. Under specific viewing conditions and accurate printer calibration, the same color printed using different gray component replacement strategies (GCR) will look the same. We spatially vary the GCR along the image in a manner that is not perceptible, and we employ an estimation method to detect such changes. The choice of GCR for a giv...

We study screen homothetic half lightlike submanifolds of indefinite Kenmotsu manifolds. Two natural conditions to impose on this study are that its homothetic factor be either non-zero constant or zero, the latter is equivalent to the screen distribution to be totally geodesic. The purpose of this paper is to prove that there do not exist above two types screen homothetic half lightlike subman...

Long-duration observations of Neptune's brightness at two visible wavelengths provide a disk-averaged estimate of its atmospheric aerosol. Brightness variations were previously associated with the 11-year solar cycle, through solar-modulated mechanisms linked with either ultraviolet or galactic cosmic ray (GCR) effects on atmospheric particles. Here, we use a recently extended brightness data s...

Positive and negative selection steps in the thymus prevent non-functional or harmful T cells from reaching the periphery. To examine the role of glucocorticoid (GC) hormone and its intracellular receptor (GCR) in thymocyte development we measured the GCR expression in different thymocyte subpopulations of BALB/c mice with or without previous dexamethasone (DX), anti-CD3 mAb, RU-486 and RU-4304...

BACKGROUND Proteinuria is a major predictor for progression of renal disease, including diabetic nephropathy. In a post hoc analysis of the ORIENT, a double-blinded randomized trial of 566 type 2 diabetic patients with nephropathy, we examined the risk association of composite renal outcome [end-stage renal disease, ESRD, doubling of serum creatinine (SCr) and death] with baseline, change and r...

We give a causal version of Eisenhart's geodesic characterization of classical mechanics. We emphasize the geometric, coordinate independent properties needed to express Eisenhart's theorem in light of modern studies on the Bargmann structures (lightlike dimensional reduction). The construction of the space metric, Coriolis 1-form and scalar potential through which the theorem is formulated is ...

We present a method to include watermarks in printed images. It does not degrade textures and has a high information channel capacity. With accurate printer calibration, in theory, the same color under different gray component replacement strategies (GCR) should look the same, under specific viewing conditions. We spatially vary the GCR along the image in a manner that is not perceptible, and w...