The connection between a Taylor series and a continued-fraction involves a nonlinear relation between the Taylor coefficients {an} and the continued-fraction coefficients {bn}. In many instances it turns out that this nonlinear relation transforms a complicated sequence {an} into a very simple one {bn}. We illustrate this simplification in the context of graph combinatorics. PACS numbers: 02.90...

Specialization in plant host-symbiont-soil interactions may help mediate plant adaptation to edaphic stress. Our previous field study showed ecological evidence for host-symbiont specificity between serpentine and non-serpentine adapted ecotypes of Collinsia sparsiflora and arbuscular mycorrrhizal fungi (AMF). To test for adapted plant ecotype-AMF specificity between C. sparsiflora ecotypes and...

Spent mushroom compost (SMC) substrates are commonly used as growth media for greenhouse crops and horticulture production. This study aimed to investigate the responses of physiochemical soil properties, enzyme activities, microbial community compositions different cultivation durations SMC treatments on tomatoes. The experiment included following treatments: substrate surrounding after planti...

Guang-You Hao, Lawren Sack, Ai-Ying Wang, Kun-Fang Cao* and Guillermo Goldstein* Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province 666303, China; Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los ...

landscape architect mohammad shaheer (1948-2015) was the principal consultant in the restoration of several historic gardens in india and afghanistan. this article presents his particular approaches and methods in three landscape restoration projects: humayun’s tomb gardens and sunder nursery central axis in delhi, and babur garden in kabul.shaheer had a deep understanding of persian garden and...

The Californian Mono Lake Basin (MLB) is a fragile ecosystem, for which a 1983 ruling carefully balanced water diversions with ecological needs without the consideration of global climate change. The hydroclimatologic response to the impact of projected climatic changes in the MLB has not been comprehensively assessed and is the focus of this study. Downscaled temperature and precipitation proj...

Abstract. We consider functions f(A,B) of noncommuting self-adjoint operators A and B that can be defined in terms of double operator integrals. We prove that if f belongs to the Besov class B ∞,1 (R), then we have the following Lipschitz type estimate in the trace norm: ‖f(A1, B1)− f(A2, B2)‖S1 ≤ const(‖A1 −A2‖S1 + ‖B1 −B2‖S1). However, the condition f ∈ B ∞,1 (R) does not imply the Lipschitz ...

Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of hyperlipidemia in the microstructure of parotid gland and its possible amelioration through statin treatment on Wistar rats. Methods. Forty Wistar rats (111.06 ± 3.36 g) were divided into 4 groups (A1, A2 controls, B1, B2 experimental). Groups A1 and A2 consumed normal cereal rodents diet during the experimental hyperlipidemic mixt...

We have previously isolated a protein from mouse liver nuclei that specifically binds to single stranded (TTAGGG)n repeats. TTAGGG is the telomeric repeats of mammals and we therefore named the new protein single stranded telomere binding protein (sTBP). Further studies now identify sTBP as heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A2/B1 on the basis of amino acid sequence determination a...