The Y-chromosomal TSPY gene is one of the highest copy number mammalian protein coding gene and represents a unique biological model to study various aspects of genomic copy number variations. This study investigated the age-related copy number variability of the bovine TSPY gene, a new and unstudied aspect of the biology of TSPY that has been shown to vary among cattle breeds, individual bulls...

Runoff potentiality of a watershed was assessed based on identifying curve number (CN), soil conservation service (SCS), and functional data analysis (FDA) techniques. Daily discrete rainfall data were collected from weather stations in the study area and analyzed through lowess method for smoothing curve. As runoff data represents a periodic pattern in each watershed, Fourier series was introd...

The symmetric q, t-Catalan polynomial Cn(q, t), which specializes to the Catalan polynomial Cn(q) when t = 1, was defined by Garsia and Haiman in 1994. In 2000, Garsia and Haglund proved the existence of statistics a(π) and b(π) on Dyck paths such that Cn(q, t) = P π qt where the sum is over all n × n Dyck paths. Specializing t = 1 gives Cn(q) = P π q and specializing q = 1 as well gives the us...

Nowadays, a major issue is land-use change by urban development that alters the catchment response to meteorological events. Urban basins have less storage capacity and more rapid runoff, so rivers rise quickly during storms higher peak discharge rates than rural catchments. An exemplary case of this situation city Milan (northern Italy) its whole territory extends towards north collecting mete...

A challenge in developing informative neuroimaging biomarkers for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is the need to identify biomarkers that are evident before the onset of clinical symptoms, and which have sufficient sensitivity and specificity on an individual patient basis. Recent literature suggests that spatial patterns of brain atrophy discriminate amongst Alzheimer's disease, mild co...

Let An denote the number of objects of some type of “size” n, and let Cn denote the number of these objects which are connected. It is often the case that there is a relation between a generating function of the Cn’s and a generating function of the An’s. Wright showed that if limn→∞Cn/An = 1, then the radius of convergence of these generating functions must be zero. In this paper we prove that...

The time evolution of excited nuclei, which are in equilibrium with the surrounding vapour, is investigated. It is shown that the finite nuclear systems undergo a first oder phase transition. The caloric curve is presented for excited O, Mg, Al and Ca and the critical temperature is estimated for O. PACS: 24.10.Cn, 02.70.Ns, 05.30.-d, 05.30.Fk, 05.60.+w, 05.70.Fh

A steady nano organic-inorganic perovskite hybrid with [H(2)3-AMP](3/2)Fe(CN)(6) (3-AMP = 3-methylaminopyridine) was prepared in the air. The structure is an unusual layered organic-inorganic type. The resulting hybrid enveloped in paraffin to prepare [H(2)3-AMP](3/2)Fe(CN)(6) paste electrode (HPE) shows good electrochemical activity and a couple of oxidation and reduction peaks with potential ...

Let Cn = {compositions of n}, C = ∪Cn. We define a partial order making C into a ranked poset having 1 as its bottom element and Cn as its (n− 1)-st rank level. Let α = a1 + · · · + ak ∈ Cn. The interval [1, α] is shown to have the following properties: • The number of maximal chains in [1, α] equals the number of permutations of [n] with descent set {a1, a1 + a2, . . .}. • The interval [1, α] ...

Urbanization can result in alteration of a watershed's hydrologic response and water quality. To simulate hydrologic and water quality impacts of land use changes, the Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) system has been used. The L-THIA system estimates pollutant loading based on direct runoff quantity and land use based pollutant coefficients. The accurate estimation of direct runo...