Ab stract Klissoura Cave 1 is lo cated in the north east ern edge of the Argive Plain, Peloponnese, at the en trance of the Berbadiotis river gorge. The cave com prises a col lapsed cave cham ber and a rockshelter area. The strati graphic anal y sis and micromorphological study of the sed i ments elu ci dated the main pro cesses in volved in the for ma tion of the site and its depositional his ...

Our previous study demonstrated that TGF-beta1 could induce the differentiation of vascular adventitial fibroblasts (AFs) to myofibroblasts (MFs). The aim of this study was to identify the genes which might be responsible for the cell phenotypic change using genechips. Cultured rat AFs were treated with TGF-beta1 (10 ng/ml) for 0 min, 5 min, 15 min, 2 h, 12 h and 24 h, respectively. Then the ce...

I t is t he aim of thi s paper to extend our recent m odel [1, 2] of nom inal t wo-photon ionizati on from an isola ted exci ted state (n > 1 ) thro ugh nearthresho ld R yd berg states (n ƒ 1 ). In the model we studi ed the e ̃ects of m igratio n of popul ati on from the di rectl y excited band of hi gh-n Rydb erg states to wards com parabl e-energy Rydb erg states but of higher angular m omenta...

I n this issue of Annals of Neurology, Duarri et al 1 and Lee et al 2 report the identification of a gene that when mutated causes a new form of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA). SCAs comprise a group of neurodegenerative diseases that primarily affect cerebellar neurons, but can also involve other neuronal groups such as the extrapyramidal systems, brainstem, and motor neurons. By convention and i...

1. INTRODUCTION The ability of a monopulse processor to determine the angular direction of an incident signal is 1imited not only by the inherent front-end receiver noi se but also by the effect of interfering signals. If there are other time coincident signals present that interfere with the signal whose direction is to be estimated then McAulay [1] has shown that bias effects occur that can s...

O u r c h a p t e r c o n c e r n s t h e a p p r o x i m a t i o n of a zero off(x) o r , equ iva len t ly , t h e a p p r o x i m a t i o n pf a r o o t o f t h e e q u a t i o n f(x) = 0 b y i te ra t ive m e t h o d s . W e shal l t a k e / as t r a n s c e n d e n t a l a l t h o u g h t h e m e t h o d s w e discuss c a n a lso b e u s e d if / is a p o l y n o m i a l . I f w e use these...

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) displays great heterogeneity between patients for susceptibility to developing erosions. Genetic variations within the HLA-DRB1 gene (the shared epitope (SE) and polymorphisms coding Valine at position 11) have been consistently associated with both radiographic outcome in RA.(1) However, associations of non-HLA markers are much less conclusive. Most studies...

This paper describes a statistical approach to tile interpretat ion of metonymy. A metonymy is received as an input, then its possible interp retations are ranked by al)t)lying ~ statistical measure. The method has been tested experimentally. It; correctly interpreted 53 out of 75 metonymies in Jat)anese. 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Metonymy is a figure of st)eech in which tile name of one thing ...

The branch-and-bound algorithm is stated in general i ty, and i l l us t ra ted by two applications, unidirect ional graph search, and reducing a sparse matrix to i t s minimal band form. The algorithm is then generalised to mult iple par t i t ions , applied to bid i rect ional graph searching for both heurist ic and non-heuristic searches, and further extended to graph searches and problem so...

The autokinetic, oculogyral, and oculogravic illusions a l l involve apparent motion orI t i s shown that these illusionsdisplacement of the visual f ield with respect to an observer.are related to involuntary eye movements, occurring either spontaneously as i n the autokineticillusion, or in response to the special stimuli associated with the other two illusions. Duringfixa...