The nuclear lamina is a scaffolding structure at the nuclear periphery and is required for maintenance of nuclear shape, spacing of nuclear pore complexes, organization of heterochromatin, DNA replication, and regulation of transcription factors. The lamina is formed by type V intermediate filament proteins, Aand B-type lamins, which assemble to form a meshwork of 10-nm filaments underneath the...

In this paper we review recent models that provide adaptive explanations for animal personalities: individual differences in behaviour (or suites of correlated behaviours) that are consistent over time or contexts. We start by briefly discussing patterns of variation in behaviour that have been documented in natural populations. In the main part of the paper we discuss models for personality di...

In the realm of the Riordan group, we consider the characterization of Riordan arrays by means of the Aand Z-sequences. It corresponds to a horizontal construction of a Riordan array, whereas the traditional approach is through column generating functions. We show how the Aand Z-sequences of the product of two Riordan arrays are derived from those of the two factors; similar results are obtaine...

In this paper, we consider high-level structures like graphs, Petri nets, and algebraic specifications and investigate two kinds of satisfiability of conditions and two kinds of rule matching over these structures. We show that, for weak adhesive HLR categories with class A of all morphisms and a class M of monomorphisms, strictly closed under decompositions, Aand M-satisfiability and Aand M-ma...

The results of the linear thermal expansion studies on (CH3NH3)5Bi2Br11 single crystals in the temperature range 60–340 K are presented. The thermal anomaly in the vicinity of 77 K is assigned to the phase transition classified as close to first order type. The pyroelectric measurements of (CH3NH3)5Bi2Br11 were carried out in the range of 45–320 K along the aand c-axis. The step-like change in ...

The purpose of this chapter is to understand the ionic conduction of perovskite-type oxides. It is based on the fundamental theories of perovskite structure, ionic conductivity, conductivity measurement, X-ray diffraction and Rietveld analysis, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Typical examples of lithium ionic conductor are introduced. Introduction Perovskite-type oxides have been consider...

In this paper we show how S-duality of type-IIB superstrings leads to an Sduality relating Aand B-model topological strings on the same Calabi-Yau as had been conjectured recently: D-instantons of the B-model correspond to A-model perturbative amplitudes and D-instantons of the A-model capture perturbative B-model amplitudes. Moreover this confirms the existence of new branes in the two models....