BACKGROUND The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus; NFS) is a widely distributed pinniped that has been shown to exhibit a high degree of philopatry to islands, breeding areas on an island, and even to specific segments of breeding areas. This level of philopatry could conceivably lead to highly genetically divergent populations. However, northern fur seals have the potential for dispersal a...

In this paper, we define new subclasses ${S}^{*}_{q}(alpha,Phi),$ ${M}_{q}(alpha,Phi)$ and ${L}_{q}(alpha,Phi)$ of analytic functions in the space of logistic sigmoid functions based on quasi--subordination and determine the initial coefficient estimates $|a_2|$ and $|a_3|$ and also determine the relevant connection to the classical Fekete--Szeg"o inequalities. Further, we discuss the improved ...

We develop a model of CWD management by nonselective deer harvest, currently the most feasible approach available for managing CWD in wild populations. We use the model to explore the effects of 6 common harvest strategies on disease prevalence and to identify potential optimal harvest policies for reducing disease prevalence without population collapse. The model includes 4 deer categories (ju...

Some plant growth regulators, including ethephon, can stimulate abscission of mature grape berries. The stimulation of grape berry abscission reduces fruit detachment force (FDF) and promotes the development of a dry stem scar, both of which could facilitate the production of high quality stemless fresh-cut table grapes. The objective of this research was to determine how two potential abscissi...

By use of the Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage cloning vehicle phi 105J23, B. subtilis chromosomal MboI fragments have been cloned that alleviate the pleiotropic effects of the recE4 mutation. The recombinant bacteriophages phi 105Rec phi 1 (3.85-kilobase insert) and phi 105Rec phi 4 (3.3-kilobase insert) both conferred on the recE4 strain YB1015 resistance to ethylmethane sulfonate, methylmetha...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains one of the major health problems in Europe. Retinopathy is one of the major causes of morbidity in T2DM, strongly influencing the evolution and prognosis of these patients. In the last 2 decades, several studies have been conducted to identify the possible genetic susceptibility factors involved in the pathogenesis of the disease. However, there is little...

The harvest management studies on an improved lemongrass strain Jor Lab L(2), were carried out at the farm of regional research Laboratory Jorhat during 1991-94. The crop was harvested at 60,70,80,90 and 100 days interval. Maximum oil yield was obtained when harvested at 90 days interval. The citral content ranged from 88 to 90% irrespective of crop age and harvesting schedule. Harvesting time ...

‎In this paper‎, ‎first we study the weak and strong convergence of solutions to the‎ ‎following first order nonhomogeneous gradient system‎ ‎$$begin{cases}-x'(t)=nablaphi(x(t))+f(t), text{a.e. on} (0,infty)\‎‎x(0)=x_0in Hend{cases}$$ to a critical point of $phi$‎, ‎where‎ ‎$phi$ is a $C^1$ quasi-convex function on a real Hilbert space‎ ‎$H$ with ${rm Argmin}phineqvarnothing$ and $fin L^1(0...

Recently, statistical population models using age-at-harvest data have seen increasing use for monitoring of harvested wildlife populations. Even more recently, detailed evaluation of model performance for long-lived, large game animals indicated that the use of random effects to incorporate unmeasured environmental variation, as well as second-stage Horvitz-Thompson-type estimators of abundanc...