We study the limiting behavior of the discrete spectra associated to the principal congruence subgroups of a reductive group over a number field. While this problem is well understood in the cocompact case (i.e., when the group is anisotropic modulo the center), we treat groups of unbounded rank. For the groups GL(n) and SL(n) we show that the suitably normalized spectra converge to the Planche...

A more medial and anterior position of the red aerobic myotomal muscle (RM) and the presence of a vascular counter-current heat exchange system provide the functional elements that facilitate regional RM endothermy in tunas, lamnid sharks and the common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus). The convergent RM morphology among all species capable of RM endothermy suggests that RM position is a stron...

Consider a closed manifold M immersed in Rm. Suppose that the trivial bundle M × Rm = TM ⊗ νM is equipped with an almost metric connection ∇̃ which almost preserves the decomposition of M × Rm into the tangent and the normal bundle. Assume moreover that the difference Γ = ∂ − ∇̃ with the usual derivative ∂ in Rm is almost ∇̃-parallel. Then M admits an extrinsically homogeneous immersion into Rm.

‎let $s$ be a subset of a finite group $g$‎. ‎the bi-cayley graph ${rm bcay}(g,s)$ of $g$ with respect to $s$ is an undirected graph with vertex set $gtimes{1,2}$ and edge set ${{(x,1),(sx,2)}mid xin g‎, ‎ sin s}$‎. ‎a bi-cayley graph ${rm bcay}(g,s)$ is called a bci-graph if for any bi-cayley graph ${rm bcay}(g,t)$‎, ‎whenever ${rm bcay}(g,s)cong {rm bcay}(g,t)$ we have $t=gs^alpha$ for some $...

A b s t r a c t-Specifying i s n o t a gimmick, it is a real discipline tha t o f f e r s m a n y advantages t o the developers. It is helpful to build, m a n a g e a n d d e s c r i b e applications. Standards are now available such as the OMG adoption of the UML notation and the RM-ODP developed by ISO and ITU-T. However these standards are totally independent although they deal with the same...

In this paper, we assume that there will be two networks, the next-generation public network and the Internet, as the future information network infrastructure, and we propose the interworking architecture that allows users to utilize services on the next-generation public network from the Internet environment. Proposed architecture is constructed on the open distributed processing environment,...

The purpose of this study was to compare the power expressed during the bench press exercise in resistance-trained men following different pre-activation conditions. Twenty-two trained men (age 24.1 ± 1.7 years, height 178.6 ± 6.1 cm, body mass 81.1 ± 10.6 kg) completed a maximal effort bench press (1-RM) test (100.0 kg ± 8.1 kg). In a subsequent assessment, each participant performed concentri...

Nowadays, the design of cooperative applications is becoming more complex due to the introduction of real time cooperation and multimedia aspects. To ease and accelerate the development of these applications it is necessary to build modular and reusable functional components that can be used by application designers. The objective of this paper is to define some of those functional components. ...

Restriction-modification (RM) systems are cognate gene complexes that code for an endonuclease and a methylase. They are often thought to have developed in bacteria as protection against invading genetic material, e.g., phage DNA. The high diversity of RM systems, as observed in nature, is often ascribed to the coevolution of RM systems (which ‘invent’ novel types) and phages. However, the exte...