PACS: 02.30.lk, 02.30.jr, 05.45.Yv, 11.10.Lm,

In a field experiment conducted during Rabi 2002-03 at Pantnagar, seed inoculation with Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viceae (LB-4), PSB (Bacillus megaterium) and PGPR LK-786 (Kurthia sp.) alone significantly increased the nodule number at different intervals, nodule dry weight at 45 and 90 DAS, plant dry weight at 70 and 90 DAS and N uptake by grain and straw in lentil over the uninoculated cont...

Partitions {Lk}k=1 of A + into m pairwise disjoint languages L1, L2, . . . , Lm such that Lk = L + k for k = 1, 2, . . . , m are considered. It is proved that such a closed partition of A+ can separate the words u1, u2, . . . , um ∈ A+ (i.e. each Lk contains exactly one word of the sequence u1, u2, . . . , um) if and only if for each pair i, j of distinct elements in {1, 2, . . . , m}, the word...

In this paper, we shall establish unilateral global bifurcation result for a class of fourthorder eigenvalue problems with sign-changing weight. Under some natural hypotheses on perturbation function, we show that lk;0 is a bifurcation point of the above problems and there are two distinct unbounded continua, Ck þ and Ck , consisting of the bifurcation branch Ck from lk;0 , wher e lk is the kth...

The conormal Lagrangian LK of a knotK in R3 is the submanifold of the cotangent bundle T ∗R3 consisting of covectors along K that annihilate tangent vectors to K. By intersecting with the unit cotangent bundle S∗R3, one obtains the unit conormal ΛK , and the Legendrian contact homology of ΛK is a knot invariant of K, known as knot contact homology. We define a version of string topology for str...

In this paper, we address a new type of coverage problem in mobile sensor network, named Line K-Coverage. It guarantees that any line cutting across a region of interest will be detected by at least K sensors. We aim to schedule an efficient sensor movement to satisfy the line K-coverage while minimize the total sensor movements for energy efficiency, which is named as LK-MinMovs problem. We pr...

Magainin-2 (MAG2) is a polycationic antimicrobial peptide isolated from the skin of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. It has a wide spectrum of antimicrobial activities against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, fungi, and induces osmotic lysis of protozoa. MAG2 also possesses antiviral and antitumoral properties. These activities make this peptide a promising candidate for therape...