This paper concerns the manner in which combinatorial mating proteins of the fungus, Schizophyllum commune, recognize one another to form complexes that regulate target gene expression. In Schizophyllum, tightly linked Y and Z mating-type genes do not promote development in the combinations present in haploid strains (i.e., self combinations). When the Y and Z genes from two different mating ty...

We aimed to compare impulse oscillation system (IOS) and traditional pulmonary function tests (PFTs) for the assessment of the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and to assess the use of IOS parameters to identify patients who were forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)%pred < 50%.Patients with COPD (n = 215) were enrolled at the Ninth Hospital of Xi'an Affiliated Ho...

Motivated by existing and recent data on possible neutrino oscillations, we propose a model of four light neutrinos (νe, νμ, ντ , and a singlet νS) with a pattern of masses and mixing derivable from a discrete Z5 symmetry and the seesaw mechanism. Atmospheric neutrino oscillations occur between νμ and ντ as pseudo-Dirac partners; whereas solar neutrino oscillations occur between νe and νS , a l...

Biorthogonal decomposition (BOD) is used to detect and study synchronous coherent structures occurring at multiple levels in the vertical momentum flux (u1w1) within and above a planted Scots pine forest during a 12-week continuous measurement period. In this study, the presented method allowed for the simultaneous detection and quantification of the number of coherent structures (N), their dur...

In this paper we describe and illustrate Zercon hamaricus sp. nov. based on all postembryonic stages obtained from soil samples laboratory cultures. The new species belongs to a group in which dorsal setae J1–J4 females are short similar length, J5 considerably longer. most of opisthonotal Z4 clearly displaced anteriorly. is Z. forsslundi Sellnick, 1958 less extent polonicus B?aszak, 1970. fors...

We give two positive results on the inverse spectral problem for simply connected analytic domains with discrete symmetries. First, we consider domains with one mirror isometry and with an invariant bouncing ball orbit whose orientation is reversed by the symmetry. We prove that such domains are determined by their Dirichlet spectra among other domains in that class. Second, we consider domains...

A matroid is uniform if and only it has no minor isomorphic to U1,1?U0,1 paving U2,2?U0,1. This paper considers, more generally, when a M Uk,k?U0,?-minor for fixed pair of positive integers (k,?). Calling such (k,?)-uniform, shown that this equivalent the condition every rank-(r(M)?k) flat nullity less than ?. Generalising result Rajpal, we prove any (k,?) prime power q, finitely many simple co...