We report and compare methods and apparatus for injection of pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders), embryos. Injection with an electromechanical device resulted in 59% survival of embryos. Previous techniques relying on a mechanical manipulator resulted in 8% survival. Pink bollworm (PBW) embryo injection technology is based in part on methods developed for injection and genetic tr...

BACKGROUND Lung protective ventilation strategies utilizing lower tidal volumes per predicted body weight (PBW) and positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) have been suggested to be beneficial in a variety of surgical populations. Recent clinical studies have used control groups ventilated with high tidal volumes without PEEP based on the assumption that this reflects current clinical practice....

We show that the groups of finite energy loops and paths (that is, those Sobolev class H 1 ) with values in a compact connected Lie group, as well their central extensions, satisfy an amenability-like property: they admit left-invariant mean on space bounded functions uniformly continuous regard to metric. Every strongly unitary representation π such group (which we call skew-amenable) has conj...

The theory of PBW properties of quadratic algebras, to which this paper aims to be a modest contribution, originates from the pioneering work of Drinfeld (see [Dr1]). In particular, as we learned after publication of [EG] (to the embarrassment of two of us!), symplectic reflection algebras and even more general reflection algebras considered in Section 3.6 below, as well as PBW theorems for the...

Here we build on the result given in [P1] and extend those in [HL2] to functions which are k times differentiable a.e., k > 1. For each k we give, a class of irrational number Sk such that the skew product extension defined by these functions is ergodic for irrational rotations by these numbers. In the second part of this paper we examine the cohomology of functions over the adding machine tran...

In quantum mechanics it is well known that observables are represented by hermitian matrices (or operators). Uncertainty relations are represented as some kinds of trace inequalities satisfied by two observables and one density matrix (or operator). Now we try to release the hermitian restriction on observables. This is only a mathematical interest. In this case we give several non-hermitian ex...

Direct write nanolithographic techniques are powerful techniques to fabricate masters for nano-imprint lithography (NIL). Proton beam writing (PBW) is a relatively new technique which has shown great potential in fabricating three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures in polymer resist material down to the 20 nm level. MeV protons generate secondary electrons and like in many lithographic processes t...

The next generation of Bollgard cotton was evaluated for agronomic and insecticidal efficacy under central Arizona growing conditions. Two novel lines were compared with their recurrent parents, DP50 and DP50B. There were no seasonlong differences observed among the varieties in most plant development and insect parameters. However, DP50 had significantly lower emergence than the other lines te...