Genetic variability is a major component which helps in selecting better genotypes under different environmental conditions. Thus, this study was conducted to understand the genetic and its components their trait associations of yield characters from cross GKVK-13 KCG-2 that contribute F6 F7 families. In an augmented block design with three checks, TMV-2, KCG-6, KCG-2, carried out at University...

is not found and the caretaker relative still refuses to cooperate, the caretaker becomes ineligible for benefits, and assistance is provided to the eligible child in tte form of protective payments, without regard to the needs of the caretaker relative. Therefore, if eligibility is determined and/or payments are made prior to the rejection of a good cause claim, it may become necessary . to re...

We derive an expectation maximization algorithm for maximum-likelihood training of substitution rate matrices from multiple sequence alignments. The algorithm can be used to train hidden substitution models, where the structural context of a residue is treated as a hidden variable that can evolve over time. We used the algorithm to train hidden substitution matrices on protein alignments in the...

One of the most abundant and widely distributed groups of Helix-turn-helix (HTH) transcription factors is the metabolite-responsive GntR family of regulators (>8500 members in the Pfam database; Jan 2009). These proteins contain a DNA-binding HTH domain at the N terminus of the protein and an effector-binding and/or oligomerisation domain at the C terminus, where upon on binding an effector mol...

Policymakers have long hoped to find ways to buffer children from the ravages of poverty without excusing parents from the responsibility of providing for their offspring. For 60 years, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program guaranteed cash assistance for poor single-parent families, allowing the mothers to remain home with their children. In 1993, federal and state governme...

We use finite incident structures to construct new infinite families of directed strongly regular graphs with parameters (l(q−1)q, l(q−1)q, (lq−l+1)q, (l−1)(q−1)q, (lq−l+1)q) for integers q and l (q, l ≥ 2), and (lq(q − 1), lq(q − 1), lq − l + 1, (l − 1)(q − 1), lq − l + 1) for all prime powers q and l ∈ {1, 2, . . . , q}. The new graphs given by these constructions include those with parameter...

Thirteen species of amphipod in the families Dexaminidae (1), Eusiridae (1), Hyalidae (1), Ischyroceridae (1), Leucothoidae (8) and Lysianassidae (1) are recorded from Palau in Micronesia. Of these, Ventojassa palauensis sp. nov., Leucothoe beobeldabensis sp.nov., L. pseudepidemos sp. nov., L. serratissima sp. nov., L. tumida sp. nov., L. whiteae sp. nov and Paranamixis dentidactylus sp. nov. a...