In this paper, we deduce a condition for a strategy S1 to be more abundant on average at equilibrium under weak selection than another strategy S2 in a population structured into a finite number of colonies of fixed proportions as the population size tends to infinity. It is assumed that one individual reproduces at a time with some probability depending on the payoff received in pairwise inter...

The present study investigated the influence of emotional valence on the spatial stimulus-key location correspondence effect in three experiments using the Affective Spatial Correspondence task (AffSCt). We initially reanalyzed the results of Conde et al. (2011) according to the model proposed by Proctor (2013). In that study, compatible and incompatible responses were chosen according to the p...

A recent sperm-typing study by Jeffreys and Neumann suggested that recombination rates in different individuals at the DNA2 recombination hotspot appeared to be highly dependent on their genotype at a particular A/G SNP, FG11. Specifically, individuals who carried at least one copy of the A allele at this SNP exhibited rates of crossover considerably higher than those of individuals with no cop...

4-97 ABSTRACT Ploidy in various generic Lolium Festuca progenies were assessed by flow cytometry and compared to conventional chromosome counting. In non-segregating triploid and tetraploid progenies, the cytometer estimated so accurately the level of plant ploidy that chromosomes counting would be no use. In segregant progenies, all the tetraploid plants according to the cytometer had effectiv...

We work on the uniqueness [1] of representations of the holonomy-flux algebra in loop quantum gravity. We argue that for analytic diffeomorphisms, the flux operators can be only constants as functions on the configuration space in representations with no anomaly, which are zero in the standard representation. In loop quantum gravity, the configuration variables are holonomies he[A] of a connect...

I have 50 pairs of socks of which 30 are black and 35 are cotton. How many pairs of socks are black and cotton? If I call the set of black socks A and the set of cotton socks B, we are looking at |A ∩ B|. It is not hard to see that: |A ∪ B| = |A| + |B| − |A ∩ B| because every element that belongs to both A and B is counted twice by |A|+|B|, so we subtract the size of the intersection once. Ther...

Most chrysanthemum cultivars are self-incompatible, so it is very difficult to create pure lines that are important in chrysanthemum breeding and theoretical studies. In our previous study, we obtained a self-compatible chrysanthemum cultivar and its self-pollinated seed set was 56.50%. It was interesting that the seed set of its ten progenies ranged from 0% to 37.23%. Examination of the factor...

A phenotypic segregation of kanamycin resistance conferred by nosnptII was investigated in two groups of transgenic cucumber lines one containing the PR-2duidA-nosnptII construct and the other with the thaumatinII-nosnptII construct to the third and fifth generation, respectively. Expression of the nptII gene was more stable and predictable in the progeny of the PR-2d lines than that of thaumat...

We study intersection properties of systems of segments in the plane. In particular, we show that there exists a constant c > 0 such that every system S of n straight-line segments in the plane has two at least cn-element subsystems S1,S2 ⊂ S such that either every segment in S1 intersects all elements of S2, or no segment in S1 intersects any element of S2. We also propose a fast approximate s...