Sperm-egg binding and fusion initiate the development of a new organism, but the molecular mechanisms of gamete adhesion, gamete membrane fusion and associated signaling are still poorly understood. Recently, one egg surface protein, CD9, was shown to be essential for gamete fusion. The fertility of CD9-deficient female mice is severely reduced because membrane fusion ability is lost in CD9-def...

We show that the space of subprobability measures, equivalently continuous valuations, on an algebraic (resp., continuous) complete quasi-metric is again and complete, when equipped with Kantorovich-Rubinstein quasi-metrics dKR (unbounded) or dKRa (bounded), themselves asymmetric forms well-known metric. also dKR-Scott dKRa-Scott topologies then coincide weak topology. obtain similar results fo...

INTRODUCTION Chromosomal aberrations of chromosome 16 are uncommon and submicroscopic deletions have rarely been reported. At present, a cytogenetic or molecular abnormality can only be detected in 55% of Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome patients, leaving the diagnosis in 45% of patients to rest on clinical features only. Interestingly, this microdeletion of 16 p13.3 was found in a young child with an...

This is a largely expository paper exploring theorems of Rubinstein and Lackenby. Rubinstein’s Theorem studies the Heegaard genus of certain hyperbolic 3-manifolds that fiber over S and Lackenby’s Theorem studies the Heegaard genus of certain Haken manifolds. Our target audience are 3-manifold theorists with good understanding of Heegaard splittings but perhaps little experience with minimal su...

Let M be an orientable 3-manifold with ∂M a single torus. We show that the number of boundary slopes of immersed essential surfaces with genus at most g is bounded by a quadratic function of g. In the hyperbolic case, this was proved earlier by Hass, Rubinstein and Wang. Subject class: 57M50, 57N10

On the Use of Smoothing to Improve the Performance of the Splitting Method Frédéric Cérou a , Arnaud Guyader b c , Reuven Rubinstein a & Radislav Vaisman a a Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel b INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique, Aspi Project-Team, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes, France c Université Rennes II—Haute Bretagne, Camp...

This paper reviews a recent literature that extends the Rubinstein/Stahl bargaining model to the case of contract bargaining. Theoretical issues such as the appropriate game form, existence and uniqueness of equilibria are discussed. The paper finishes with a brief overview of some applications of the framework.