In numerous economic scenarios, contracting parties may not have a clear picture of all the relevant aspects. While confronted with these unawareness issues, the strategic decisions of the contracting parties critically depend on their sophistication. A contracting party may be unaware of what she is entitled to determine. Therefore, she can only infer some missing pieces via the contract offer...

In the February 1992 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly, J. E. Connett [1] asked whether it is possible to construct a 'light trap': a re ective-sided container with the property that a beam of light, shone into it from an appropriate direction, would be re ected inside it over and over again and never escape. Connett suggests that such a trap might be of value as a device to store ligh...

Internationally, invasive vertebrate species pose a significant threat to biodiversity, agricultural production and human health. To manage these species a wide range of tools, including traps, are used. In New Zealand, brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), stoats (Mustela ermine), and ship rats (Rattus rattus) are invasive and there is an ongoing demand for cost-effective non-toxic method...

Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) were initially described as an antimicrobial mechanism of neutrophils. Over the last decade, several lines of evidence support the involvement of NETs in a plethora of pathological conditions. Clinical and experimental data indicate that NET release constitutes a shared mechanism, which is involved in a different degree in various manifestations of non-infe...

Consider Hankel operators Hf on the weighted Bergman space L 2 a(B, dvα). In this paper we characterize the membership of (H∗ fHf ) s/2 = |Hf | in the norm ideal CΦ, where 0 < s ≤ 1 and the symmetric gauge function Φ is allowed to be arbitrary.

Bacteria subvert the immune system by suppressing antimicrobial responses or directly killing immune cells. A new study shows that Staphylococcus aureus can also turn antimicrobial responses to its advantage by converting neutrophil extracellular traps into a bacterial weapon against macrophages.

flea beetles of chaetocnema tibialis (col:, chrysomelidae) are important pests on sugar beet iniran. in some cases, the damages caused by this pest are so high that some part of  the field should be replanted. since most of crop losses occur from cotyledon stage until 4-leaf stage, monitoring of the population of this pest could play an important role in decreasing damage of the pest. sticky-co...

BACKGROUND Mutations in the TNFRSF1A gene encoding the tumour necrosis factor α cell surface receptor, TNFR1, cause TNFR-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS) and polymorphisms in TNFRSF1A, including rs4149570, rs767455 and rs1800692, are associated with inflammatory diseases. OBJECTIVES To describe a new exon 2-spliced transcript-TNFR1-d2-and the impact of these three single nucleotide polymo...