Sexual differentiation across taxa may be due to genetic sex determination (GSD) and/or temperature sex determination (TSD). In many mammals, males are heterogametic (XY); whereas females are homogametic (XX). In most birds, the opposite is the case with females being heterogametic (ZW) and males the homogametic sex (ZZ). Many reptile species lack sex chromosomes, and instead, sexual differenti...

Several biochemical studies have suggested that in Drosophila melanoguster the two common allozymes of G6PD differ in their in vitro activities and thermal stabilities. Yei, it remains to be shown that these characterizations reflect actual in vivo differences and are not artifacts of the biochemical approach. In this study it is shown that in vivo activity differences must exist between these ...

We present VLAH i observations of the blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies NGC 2366, NGC 4861, VII Zw 403, and Haro 2. These galaxies span a range of BCD morphological types. The cometary-like BCDs NGC 2366 and NGC 4861 have regular rotational kinematics with a V= of 8.7 and 6.4, respectively. On the other hand, the velocity fields of the iE BCD VII Zw 403 and of the nE BCD Haro 2 lack regularity,...

INTRODUCTION In the Japanese frog Rana (R.) rugosa the androgen receptor (AR) gene on the W chromosome (W-AR) is barely expressed. Previously we showed that incomplete female-to-male sex-reversal occurred in Z-AR transgenic female frogs. To date, however, there is no report showing that AR with androgens can determine genetically programed male sex fate in any vertebrate species. Here, we exami...

In this paper, we give a universal completion of the ZX-calculus for the whole of pure qubit quantum mechanics. This proof is based on the completeness of another graphical language: the ZW-calculus, with direct translations between these two graphical systems.

OF THESIS Per-Pixel Calibration for RGB-Depth Natural 3D Reconstruction on GPU Ever since the Kinect brought low-cost depth cameras into consumer market, great interest has been invigorated into Red-Green-Blue-Depth (RGBD) sensors. Without calibration, a RGBD camera’s horizontal and vertical field of view (FoV) could help generate 3D reconstruction in camera space naturally on graphics processi...

We study status updating under two-way delay in a system consisting of sampler, sink, and controller residing at the sink. The drives sampling process by sending request packets to sampler. Upon receiving request, sampler generates sample transmits update packet Transmissions both encounter random delays. develop optimal control policies minimize average age information (AoI) using tools Markov...

The origin of star-formation in customarily passively evolving early-type massive galaxies is poorly understood. We present a case study galaxy, I~Zw~81, inside the Bootes void. void galaxy known to host an active galactic nuclei (AGN). Our detailed 2D decomposition surface brightness distribution $Canada$ $France$ $Hawaii$ $Telescope$ ($CFHT$) g- and r-bands revealed multiple structural compon...