This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0), which permits unrestricted noncommercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited and the new work is distributed under the same license as the original. The understanding of the genetic basis of phenotypic and ecological divergences b...

BACKGROUND In recent years, laboratory and clinical research has suggested the need for peritoneal dialysis fluids (PDFs) that are more biocompatible than the conventional PDFs commonly used today. Bioincompatibility of PDF has been attributed to low pH, lactate, glucose, glucose degradation products (GDPs), and osmolality. PDFs with neutral pH and low GDPs are now available commercially. In vi...

The past decades yielded fundamental changes to the ways in which value creation is being organized. Globalization and market deregulation motivate businesses to expand into new, often remote markets, which requires them to decentralize and distribute work and often to partner with local organizations, which in turn brings with it changes to the ways in which people need to organize their work ...

Methemoglobin mav be formed from hemoglobin in vitro bv a wide range of oxidizing agents. Such compounds also act in vivo if they ian permeate the red cell membrane; other substances such as aniline and &its derivatives (including the sulfanilimide series) are ineffective with hemoglobin solutions but do form methemoglobin in vivo, possibly because they give rise, in the course of their metabol...

We give an explicit formula for the probability that the convex hull of an n-step random walk in R does not contain the origin, under the assumption that the distribution of increments of the walk is centrally symmetric and puts no mass on affine hyperplanes. This extends the formula by Sparre Andersen (Skand Aktuarietidskr 32:27–36, 1949) for the probability that such random walk in dimension ...

It has long been known that genomes vary over a remarkable range of sizes in both plants (Bennett, Cox, and Leitch 1997) and animals (Gregory 2001). It also has become evident that across the broad phylogenetic sweep, genome size may be correlated with intron size (Deutsch and Long 1999; Vinogradov 1999; McLysaght et al. 2000), suggesting that some component of genome size evolution takes place...

A few years ago, a friend suggested I take a look at a new book on the history of genetics written by independent scholar James Schwartz. Since my appetite for this kind of thing appears insatiable, I ordered the book and devoured it over a weekend. In In Pursuit of the Gene, Schwartz examines the brilliance of Mendel and Darwin; eavesdrops on the debates of Galton, Bateson, Pearson, Wendel, an...

Gutierrez et al., 2002; Lu and Myers, 2002). Genetic distances could be as low as 1 to 3%. Research in AustraGenetic diversity in modern upland cotton cultivars (Gossypium lia, China, and Pakistan obtained similar results (Multani hirsutum L.) is thought to be narrow, thus limiting genetic advance. Robust information on the genetic relatedness among currently grown and Lyon, 1995; Zuo et al., 2...

In this paper, we give an extension of the Wendel's theorem on KPC-hypergroups. We also show that every translation invariant mapping is corresponding with a unique positive measure on the KPC-hypergroup.

Ebselen (2-phenyl-1, 2-benzisoselenazol-3 (2H)-one) is a glutathione peroxidase mimic that catalyzes the reduction of a hydroperoxide with the oxidation of a thiol. In vitro models indicate that the oxidative protection ebselen affords to cells is due to its glutathione peroxidase (GPx) mimic activity. This paper will describe ebselen’s reactions, detection, and pharmacological potential. Intro...