In order to estimate responses of growth rate and growth hormone of Clarias gariepinus to stocking density, fish (initial weight 30.71 ± 0.89 g) were stocked in 120-L tanks at densities of 35, 65, 95, and 125 kg/m3 for 60 days. On day 30 and 60, the fish growth rates were measured, pituitary growth hormone (GH) mRNA levels and serum GH concentrations were examined by real-time qPCR and ELISA te...

The relative expressive power of a sentential operator U]o~ is compared to that of a syntactical predicate L('c~') in the setting of first-order logics. Despite results by Montague and by Thomason that claim otherwise, any of the so-called CCmodal" logics of knowledge and belief can be translated into classical first-order logics that have a corresponding predicate on sentences.

The effects of two volumes (1.5 L or 3.0 L) of commercially available electrolyte beverage (1.44 mM·L(-1) Na(+)) taken during a 24-hour recovery period post-exercise, on plasma volume (PV) expansion 24-hours post-exercise were assessed. A simple random-order crossover research design was used. Subjects (n = 9 males: age 21 ± 4 years, body mass 80.0 ± 9.0 kg, peak incremental 60-second cycling p...

We show that the naive mean-field approximation correctly predicts leading term of logarithmic lower tail probabilities for number copies a given subgraph in G(n,p) and arithmetic progressions length random subsets integers entire range densities where is viable. Our main technical result provides sufficient conditions on maximum degrees uniform hypergraph H guarantee edges, induced by binomial...

We identify in this paper two conditions that characterize the domain of single-peaked preferences on the line in the following sense: a preference profile satisfies these two properties if and only if there exists a linear order L over the set of alternatives such that these preferences are single-peaked with respect L. The first property states that for any subset of alternatives the set of a...

Equality in first-order logic is represented in the language by means of a logical symbol and so it is interpreted uniformly; the semantics says that its interpretation in any structure is the identity relation. This is the absolute notion of identity however, and in fact the only one deserving this name. But there is a related relation: the relation of indiscernibility. Given a structure for a...