Background: Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) from the Bromoviridae family, is one of the most widespread plant viruses in the world. Objectives: In the present study tomato fields in Guilan, Isfahan, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan and Tehran provinces were surveyed to determine the presence of CMV subgroups during 2011-2012. Materials and Methods: Out of 305 symptomatic leaf samples ...

Using a panel of antibodies specific for H and L chain variable region subgroups, a panel of human monoclonal cold agglutinin (CA) and rheumatoid factor (RF) autoantibodies were analyzed. The vast majority of the two types of autoantibodies utilized VkIII L chains, many of which probably derive from the Humkv325 gene. However, while most RFs (77%) utilized VHI H chains, all the CAs used VHII su...

We prove large deviation principles (LDP) for m-fold products of empirical measures and for U-empirical measures, where the underlying sequence of random variables is a special Markov chain, an exchangeable sequence, a mixing sequence or an independent, but not identically distributed, sequence. The LDP can be formulated on a subset of all probability measures, endowed with a topology which is ...

We prove that Alexandrov spaces X of nonnegative curvature have Markov type 2 in the sense of Ball. As a corollary, any Lipschitz continuous map from a subset of X into a 2-uniformly convex Banach space is extended as a Lipschitz continuous map on the entire space X.

In this paper, we consider a generalized large game model where the agent space is divided into countable subgroups and each player’s payoff depends on her own action and the action distribution in each of the subgroups. Given the countability assumption on its action or payoff space or the Loeb assumption on its agent space, we show that that a given distribution is an equilibrium distribution...

In this paper we prove that the fixed subgroup of an arbitrary family of endomorphisms ψi, i ∈ I, of a finitely generated free group F , is F -super-compressed. In particular, r(∩i∈IFix ψi) ≤ r(M) for every subgroup M ≤ F containing ∩i∈IFix ψi. This provides new evidence towards the inertia conjecture for fixed subgroups of free groups. As a corollary, we show that, in the free group of rank n,...

The complete amino acid sequence of an amyloidogenic Bence Jones protein (NIG-84) from an individual with myeloma-associated systemic amyloidosis has been determined. The protein, with a blocked N-terminus, represents a complete light chain consisting of 217 residues and it has a structural feature characteristic of the V lambda II subgroup. In addition to a two-residue insertion at positions 2...