A clear definition of what constitutes "Big Data" is difficult to identify, but we find it most useful to define Big Data as a data collection that is complete. By this criterion, researchers on Caenorhabditis elegans have a long history of collecting Big Data, since the organism was selected with the idea of obtaining a complete biological description and understanding of development. The comp...

In [L2], the author studied universal equations for genus-2 Gromov-Witten invariants given in [Ge1] and [BP] using quantum product on the big phase space. Among other results, the author proved that for manifolds with semisimple quantum cohomology, the generating function for genus-2 Gromov-Witten invariants, denoted by F2, is uniquely determined by known genus-2 universal equations. Moreover, ...

BACKGROUND Big defensin is an antimicrobial peptide composed of a highly hydrophobic N-terminal region and a cationic C-terminal region containing six cysteine residues involved in three internal disulfide bridges. While big defensin sequences have been reported in various mollusk species, few studies have been devoted to their sequence diversity, gene organization and their expression in respo...

1. We have characterized the human smooth muscle endothelin converting enzyme (ECE) present in the media of the endothelium-denuded human umbilical vein preparation. 2. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) and ET-2 were potent constrictors of umbilical vein with EC50 values of 9.2 nM and 29.6 nM, respectively. ET-1 was at least 30 times more potent than ET-3 suggesting the presence of constrictor ETA receptors....

We study the fractional p-Kirchhoff equation $$ \Big( a+b \int_{\mathbb{R}^N}{\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}} \frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{N+ps}}\, dx\, dy\Big) (-\Delta)_p^s u-\mu|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{q-2}u, \quad x\in\mathbb{R}^N, where \((-\Delta)_p^s\) is p-Laplacian operator, a and b are strictly positive real numbers, \(s \in (0,1)\), \(1 < p< N/s,\) \(p< q< p^*_s-2\) with \(p^*_s=\frac{Np}{N-p...

For a block design D, a series of block intersection graphs Gi, or i-BIG(D), i = 0, . . . , k is defined in which the vertices are the blocks of D, with two vertices adjacent if and only if the corresponding blocks intersect in exactly i elements. A silver graph G is defined with respect to a maximum independent set of G, called an α-set. Let G be an r-regular graph and c be a proper (r + 1)-co...

OBJECTIVE To compare the nerve injury and vessel disruption complicaitons in patients undergoing saphenous vein stripping using olive heads of different sizes. METHODS Big olive heads were used in group A (n=50) and small olive heads were used in group B (n=50) from the ankle to the groin; in group C (n=50), the vein was stripped in two sections; in an upward fashion by stripping the distal p...