We prove a “general shrinking lemma” that resembles the Schwarz– Pick–Ahlfors Lemma and its many generalizations, but differs in applying to maps of a finite disk into a disk, rather than requiring the domain of the map to be complete. The conclusion is that distances to the origin are all shrunk, and by a limiting procedure we can recover the original Ahlfors Lemma, that all distances are shru...

Wetland inundation is crucial to the survival and prosperity of fauna and flora communities in wetland ecosystems. Even small changes in surface inundation may result in a substantial impact on the wetland ecosystem characteristics and function. This study presented a novel method for wetland inundation mapping at a subpixel scale in a typical wetland region on the Zoige Plateau, northeast Tibe...

BACKGROUND We investigated the relation between fetoplacental growth and the use of oral antihypertensive medication to treat mild-to-moderate pregnancy hypertension. METHODS The study design was a metaregression analysis of published data from randomised controlled trials. Data from a paper that was regarded as an extreme statistical outliner were excluded from primary analyses. The change i...

Parkinson׳s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects the motor functions of the patients. Research and surgical treatment of PD (e.g., deep brain stimulation) often require human brain atlases for structural identification or as references for anatomical normalization. However, two pitfalls exist for many current atlases used for PD. First, most atlases do not represen...

CAPSULE Background: DDI2 and DDI3 are two uncharacterized identical genes found in budding yeast. Results: They encode novel cyanamide hydratases and are massively induced by cyanamide. Their deletion causes cellular sensitivity to cyanamide. Conclusion: The two genes function in cyanamide detoxification and are tightly regulated. Significance: This is the first attempt to understand the duplic...

The capability to monitor water status from crops on a regular basis can enhance productivity and water use efficiency. In this paper, high-resolution thermal imagery acquired by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to map plant water stress and its spatial variability, including sectors under full irrigation and deficit irrigation over nectarine and peach orchards at 6.12 cm ground sample...

As part of a recent high-density linkage disequilibrium (LD) study of chromosome 20, we obtained genotypes for approximately 30,000 SNPs at a density of 1 SNP/2 kb on four different population samples (47 CEPH founders; 91 UK unrelateds [unrelated white individuals of western European ancestry]; 97 African Americans; 42 East Asians). We observed that approximately 50% of SNPs had at least one g...

I show an example of how the principal component analysis method can be used for solving a specific computer vision problem—the one of fitting an ellipse to a set of points. In the example, the feature map is given (postulated) as part of the problem specification. More generally, the feature map in the kernel principal component analysis has the interpretation of the model class in data modell...