The authors acknowledge Mr. James Albus and Mr. Sam Rosenfeld of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for their support of this work. We express our appreciation to Mr. Daniel Fishman of the University of Maryland for participating in the early efforts and for valuable discussions. We wish to thank Dr. Cordell Green of Stanford University for reading an early draft of the work and ...

at long intervals by ranges of mountains? pimpled with extraordinary regularity by small roughly conical hills, some 100-200 feet high, called ' Tels.' This plain is watered by occasional streams and for two or three months in the spring is covered with a green herbage, which the advent of the 'hot weather about May changes to a brown dust. Towards the west this plain is populated by settled in...

It is estimated that inherited red-green color deficiency, which involves both the protan and deutan deficiency types, is common in men. For red-green defective observers, some reddish colors appear desaturated and brownish, unlike those seen by normal observers. Despite its prevalence, few studies have investigated the effects that red-green color deficiency has on the psychological properties...

A comparative study was conducted of a novel real-time quantitative PCR test (LightCycler System) with FastStart DNA Master(PLUS) SYBR Green I dye to detect DNA of human herpes virus 6 (HHV-6). Results were compared with those of a real-time quantitative PCR with hybridization probe (HP) formats using the fluorescence resonance energy transfer method, and with those of a single qualitative PCR ...

In this study, multi component Hantzsch reaction was carried out between various  Aromatic Aldehyde with Dimedone,Ethyl acetateand ammonium acetate to produce polyhydroquinolinederivatives under solvent-free conditions at 110oC by a (Zinc oxide  nanocatalyst) as effective Lewis acid. The remarkable advantages offered by this method compared with other methods are a green catalyst, si...

In C. elegans, intestinal autofluorescence (sometimes referred to as lipofuscin or "age pigment") accumulates with age and is often used as a marker of health or the rate of aging. We show that this autofluorescent material is spectrally heterogeneous, and that materials that fluoresce under different excitation wavelengths have distinct biological properties. Red autofluorescence (visible with...

Since data envelopment analysis (DEA) introduced in 1970s, it has been widely applied to measure the efficiency of a wide variety of production and operation systems. Recently DEA has been extended to examine the efficiency of decision making units (DMUs) with two-stage network structures or processes, where the outputs from the first stage are intermediate measures that make up the inputs of t...

A general explicit upper bound is obtained for the proportion P (n, m) of elements of order dividing m, where n−1 ≤ m ≤ cn for some constant c, in the finite symmetric group Sn. This is used to find lower bounds for the conditional probabilities that an element of Sn or An contains an r-cycle, given that it satisfies an equation of the form xrs = 1 where s ≤ 3. For example, the conditional prob...

The objective of the investigation was to analyse energy protein adequacy of the diets of Indian children residing in an urban slum. The subjects numbering 271 between the ages of 4-14 years resided in a slum in Mysore city in South India. Nutritional status of children and mothers were determined by standard procedures. Background information was obtained using questionnaire method. Dietary in...

We have tested and compared the performance of 12 different assays representing four different real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chemistries in the context of genetically modified organism detection. Several different molecular beacon, SYBR Green, TaqMan, and MGB assays were designed for the event specific detection and quantification of the 3' integration junction of GTS 40-3-2 (Roundu...