The plasmodiophorids are a group of eukaryotic intracellular parasites that cause disease in a variety of economically significant crops. Plasmodiophorids have traditionally been considered fungi but have more recently been suggested to be members of the Cercozoa, a morphologically diverse group of amoeboid, flagellate, and amoeboflagellate protists. The recognition that Cercozoa constitute a m...

The resonance properties of a plasmonic dipole antenna array depend on its geometry and the surrounding medium. linear optical an antennas can be modified with inclusion epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) thin film. In this work, we numerically investigate roles dimensions, ENZ film thickness loss, separation between in determining response antenna–ENZ metasurface. results show that for sufficiently small...

The exist.rnce of weakly interacting massive pa1·ticles (WHvlPs) has been suggested to explain both t.he dark matter conundrum and the sohu neutrino deficiency. Provided t.hat thf'y do not annihilat.f', these part.ides can be extremely efficient. in transporting energy inside stellar cori�s. They can supplement radiation and, under the specific circ:umstances which Wf' analyze, f'H'.'11 supprf'...

For more than 10 years, systematists have been debating the superiority of character or taxonomic congruence in phylogenetic analysis. In this paper, we demonstrate that the competing approaches can converge to the same solution when a consensus method that accounts for branch lengths is selected. Thus, we propose to use both methods in combination, as a way to corroborate the results of combin...

In a previous paper, we have considered the weakly nonlinear interaction of a pair of axisymmetric lower branch Tollmien-Schlichting instabilities in cylindrical supersonic flows. Here the possibility that nonaxisymmetric modes might also exist is investigated. In fact it is found that such modes do exist and, on the basis of linear theory, it appears that these modes are the most important. Th...

Multilump gravity-capillary solitary waves propagating in a fluid of infinite depth are computed numerically. The study is based on a weakly nonlinear and dispersive partial differential equation (PDE) with weak variations in the spanwise direction, a model derived by Akers and Milewski [Stud. Appl. Math., 122 (2009), pp. 249–274]. For a two-dimensional fluid, this model agrees qualitatively we...

We reveal the existence of polariton soliton solutions in the array of weakly coupled optical cavities, each containing an ensemble of interacting qubits. An effective, complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is derived in the continuum limit, taking into account the effects of cavity field dissipation and qubit dephasing. We have shown that an enhancement of the induced nonlinearity can be achieved b...

In a study of relationships among selected cyst-forming and noncyst-forming species of Heteroderoidea, combined sequences comprised of DNA from part of the conserved 18S ribosomal RNA gene (rDNA) plus the complete ITS rDNA segment were more similar to analyses based on the ITS data alone than to analyses based on the 18S data alone. One of the two noncyst-forming species, Ekphymatodera thomason...

We propose a computational methodology -"B-LOG"-, which offers the potential for an effective implementation of Logic Programming in a parallel computer. We also propose a weighting scheme to guide the search process through the graph and we apply the concepts of parallel "branch and bound" algorithms in order to perform a "best-first" search using an information theoretic bound. The concept of...