An experiment was performed to examine the interaction between Zn deficiency and lipid intake in carp. The carp were given a high-lipid diet that was either Zn-deficient (ZD) or Zn-supplemented (ZS), or were pair-fed (PF) the ZS diet to the intake of the ZD group. After 8 weeks the carp were killed and measurements were made of intestinal glucose uptake, levels of DNA, RNA and triacylglycerol, ...

Accurate photometric redshift are a lynchpin for many future experiments to pin down the cosmological model and for studies of galaxy evolution. In this study, a novel sparse regression framework for photometric redshift estimation is presented. Data from a simulated survey was used to train and test the proposed models. We show that approaches which include careful data preparation and model d...

The W-CDF-S and ELAIS-S1 fields will be two of the LSST Deep Drilling fields, but availability spectroscopic redshifts within these is still limited on deg^2 scales. To prepare for future science, we use EAZY to estimate photometric (photo-zs) in based forced-photometry catalogs. Our photo-z catalog consists ~0.8 million sources covering 4.9 3.4 ELAIS-S1, among which there are ~0.6 (W-CDF-S) ~0...

We describe a practical measurement of the curvature of the Universe which, unlike current constraints, relies purely on the properties of the Robertson-Walker metric rather than any assumed model for the dynamics and content of the Universe. The observable quantity is the cross-correlation between foreground mass and gravitational shear of background galaxies, which depends upon the angular di...

An adequate zinc status is essential for optimal cellular functions and growth. Yet, excessive zinc supplementation can be cytotoxic and can impair cell growth. Gadd45 plays a vital role as cellular stress sensor in the modulation of cell signal transduction in response to stress. The present study was designed to determine the influence of zinc status on Gadd45 expression and cell cycle progre...

Since gravitational lensing effects directly probe inhomogeneities of dark matter, lensing-galaxy cross-correlations can provide us important information on the relation between dark matter and galaxy distributions, i.e., the bias. In this paper, we propose a method to measure the stochasticity/nonlinearity of the galaxy bias through correlation studies of the cosmic shear and galaxy number flu...

Decision-making in competitive games with incomplete information is a field with many promising applications for AI, both in games (e.g. poker) and in real-life settings (e.g. security). The most general game-theoretic framework that can be used model such games is the zero-sum Partially Observable Stochastic Game (zs-POSG). While use of this model enables agents to make rational decisions, rea...

The study of non-abelian fundamental groups renders it plausible that the principle of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer, whereby non-vanishing of L-values, in some appropriate sense, accounts for the finiteness of integral points, can eventually be extended to hyperbolic curves. Here we will discuss the very simple case of a genus 1 hyperbolic curve X/Q obtained by removing the origin from an elliptic...