A full-length complementary DNA (cDNA; designated Hc-stp-1) encoding a serine/threonine phosphatase (Hc-STP-1) was isolated from Haemonchus contortus, a strongylid nematode parasite of small ruminants. Hc-stp-1 was shown to be transcribed in males of both adults and fourth-stage larvae, but not in females, early larval stages or eggs. The full-length gene (2854 bp) contained ten exons and nine ...

Recently, we have proposed an energy saving Gossip-based Sleep Protocol (GSP) [1] for energy conservation in mobile ad hoc networks. A gossiping node employs a random variable (p) to decide whether or not to enter a sleep mode. Our observation is that in a well connected ad hoc network there are usually many paths existing between a source and a destination, so a percentage (p) of the nodes may...

We introduce a bidding language for expressing negative value externalities in position auctions for online advertising. The unit-bidder constraints (UBC) language allows a bidder to condition a bid on its allocated slot and on the slots allocated to other bidders. We introduce a natural extension of the Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction, the expressive GSP (eGSP) auction, that induces tru...

Prostate cancer (PCA) is the second most frequently diagnosed and leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men in the USA. The recognition that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) facilitate tumor cell invasion and metastasis of PCA has led to the development of MMP inhibitors as cancer therapeutic agents. As part of our efforts to develop newer and effective chemopreventive agents for PCA, we ev...

We propose a hybrid auction mechanism for sponsored search, where bidders can be truthful or not, and are accordingly treated differently. Our class of hybrid mechanisms give incentives for non-truthful bidders to bid truthfully, while behaving as a non-truthful auction if no bidders are truthful. Our motivation is that the Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction (the current mechanism of choice...

A family of proteins designated BSP-A1, BSP-A2, BSP-A3 and BSP-30 kDa (collectively called BSP proteins for Bovine Seminal Plasma proteins) constitute the major protein fraction in the bull seminal plasma. These proteins interact with choline phospholipids on the sperm surface and play a role in the membrane stabilization (decapacitation) and destabilization (capacitation) process. Homologous p...

School Neighbourhood Nutrition Environments (SNNEs) can facilitate or impede healthy eating. This study describes the SNNEs surrounding 6 Good Start Program (GSP) schools in 5 suburbs in Logan, Queensland. Relative density of healthy and unhealthy food outlets was calculated for SNNEs surrounding GSP (6) and non-GSP (10) schools within the 5 suburbs. Relative accessibility of minimally processe...

We introduce a measure for the level of stability against coalitional deviations, called stability scores, which generalizes widely used notions of stability in non-cooperative games. We use the proposed measure to compare various Nash equilibria in congestion games, and to quantify the effect of game parameters on coalitional stability. For our main results, we apply stability scores to analyz...

The theory of Whittaker functors for GLn is an essential technical tools in Gaitsgory’s proof of the Vanishing Conjecture appearing in the geometric Langlands correspondence ([5]). We define Whittaker functors for GSp 4 and study their properties. These functors correspond to the maximal parabolic subgroup of GSp 4 , whose unipotent radical is not commutative. We also study similar functors cor...

The Generalized Second Price auction (GSP) has been widely used by search engines to sell ad slots. Previous studies have shown that the pure Price Of Anarchy (POA) of GSP is 1.25 when there are two ad slots and 1.259 when three ad slots. For the cases with more than three ad slots, however, only some untight upper bounds of the pure POA were obtained. In this work, we improve previous results ...