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Background: Rybp (Ring1 and YY1 binding protein) is a zinc finger protein which interacts with the members of the mammalian polycomb complexes. Previously we have shown that Rybp is critical for early embryogenesis and that haploinsufficiency of Rybp in a subset of embryos causes failure of neural tube closure. Here we investigated the requirement for Rybp in ocular development using four in vi...

It is convenient to consider sexual problems according to their initial clinical presentation. They fall naturally into problems affecting primarily the male partner and those affecting primarily the female partner. When it comes to dealing with patients, however, it is a fundamental principle that both partners may be concerned in the aetiology of the disorder and both must be involved in trea...

The apparently haphazard way in which successive multiplications by a large integer K produce remainders after overflow makes the resulting numbers work surprisingly well for many Monte Carlo problems. Scores of papers have reported favorably on cycle length and statistical properties of such generators. The purpose of this note is to point out that all multiplicative congruential random number...

We examine the evaporation of a small black hole on a brane in a world with large extra dimensions. Since the masses of many Kaluza-Klein modes are much smaller than the Hawking temperature of the black hole, it has been claimed that most of the energy is radiated into these modes. We show that this is incorrect. Most of the energy goes into the modes on the brane. This raises the possibility o...

Bruxism is a controversial phenomenon. Both its definition and the diagnostic procedure contribute to the fact that the literature about the aetiology of this disorder is difficult to interpret. There is, however, consensus about the multifactorial nature of the aetiology. Besides peripheral (morphological) factors, central (pathophysiological and psychological) factors can be distinguished. In...

distances Different distances between two given vectors Description These functions are used for calculating different distances between two given vectors. Thus, L1.dist calculates the L1 distance, cosin.dist calculates the cosine distance, euclidian.dist computes the Euclidian distance, and rank.cor.dist computes the rank correlation distance. The vectors have to have same length. When using r...

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