[1] We show that the reconstructed sensitivity of the sea level temperature to long term solar forcing in the Northern Hemisphere is in very good agreement with the empirical temperature pattern corresponding to changes of the North Annular Mode (NAM). This implies that long-term variations of solar output affect climate predominantly through the NAM that extends throughout the stratosphere and...

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors enhance the effect of DNA alkylating agents on BRCA1‑ and BRCA2-deficient cell lines. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the PARP inhibitor nicotinamide (NAM) on breast cancer cells with different BRCA1 expression or function, such as BRCA1‑deficient MDA-MB-436 cells, low expression BRCA1 MCF-7 cells, and the BRCA1 wild‑type MDA-MB-2...

Under various appropriate hypotheses it is shown that there is only one determinacy model of the form L(R, μ) in which μ is a supercompact measure on Pω1(R). This gives a positive answer to a question asked by W.H. Woodin in 1983.

Recent research has shown that the subskills and text types affect reader performance considerably (Lumley, 1993, Dennis, 1982). Despite the fact that most reading tests consist of a variety of subskills and text types at the same time, the studies about the relative effects of both subskills and text types on readers’ performance are rare. In that vein, this article reports the relative effect...

Being composed of several whorls of distinct floral organs, the flower is one of the most complex organs in the plant. As such, the formation and maintenance of boundaries that separate the meristem from the floral organ primordium and adjacent organs are critical for its normal development. In Arabidopsis, the miR164-regulated NAM genes play key roles in floral-boundary specification. By contr...

Mike and I worked together for half a century. To date, I’ve had some twenty-five collaborators—co-authors of joint papers and books; there’s no question that Mike is the premier one. He and I wrote three joint papers—the original Bargaining Set paper (21), the one on the Minimax Principle (38), and the Talmud paper (50)—and one joint book (64), about repeated games of incomplete information. T...

Sowohl bei der Entwicklung konventioneller Software als auch bei der Entwicklung wissensbasierter Systeme fehlen z.Z. systematische Ansätze, Anforderungen an das zu entwickelnde Produkt „ingenieurmäßig“ zu erheben. Die Probleme, mit denen sich der Software Engineer konfrontiert sieht, ähneln denen der Wissensakquisition im Knowledge Engineering. Der an der Universität Karlsruhe am Institut AIFB...

We introduce two families of non-commutative symmetric functions that have analogous properties to the Hall-Littlewood and Macdonald symmetric functions.