Acrosin, a trypsin-like proteinase found in spermatozoa, is believed to play an essential role in fertilization by aiding the spermatozoon to penetrate the zona pellucida surrounding the egg (Mc Rorie and Williams, 1974). The precise cellular location of this enzyme is of considerable interest since such knowledge would aid in elucidating its mode of action. Biochemical studies have indicated t...

Abstract: In this article a continuous distribution, the so-called transmuted additive Weibull distribution, that extends the additive Weibull distribution and some other distributions is proposed and studied. Wewill use the quadratic rank transmutation map proposed by Shaw and Buckley (2009) in order to generate the transmuted additiveWeibull distribution. Various structural properties of the ...

Past research has provided abundant evidence that playing violent video games increases aggressive tendencies. In contrast, evidence on possible positive effects of video game exposure on prosocial tendencies has been relatively sparse. The present research tested and found support for the hypothesis that exposure to prosocial video games increases the accessibility of prosocial thoughts. These...

Armand Rundquist,1,* Michal Bajcsy,1,2,† Arka Majumdar,1,3,4 Tomas Sarmiento,1 Kevin Fischer,1 Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis,1 Sonia Buckley,1 Alexander Y. Piggott,1 and Jelena Vučković1 1E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA 2Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 3Department of Physics, University of Cal...

Many studies in the last years showed that, for a wide variety of plants, stomata apertures exhibits spatial temporal patterns in a phenomena known as patchy stomatal conductance. Many attempts were made to build numerical models to explain this complex behavior, but none were able to explain all of behaviors observed in nature. In this work we discuss some limitations of an hydraulic cellular ...

Petroleum reservoir modelling requires effective multiscale methods for the numerical simulation of two-phase flow in porous media. This paper proposes the application of a novel meshfree particle method to the Buckley-Leverett model. The utilized meshfree advection scheme, called AMMoC, is essentially a method of characteristics, which combines an adaptive semi-Lagrangian method with local mes...

The aim of this paper is to analyse the solution of a fuzzy system when the classical solution based on standard fuzzy mathematics fails to exist. In particular we analyse the solution of the system Ax=b with A squared matrix with positive fuzzy coefficients and y crisp vector of positive elements. This system is particularly important for financial applications. We propose two different soluti...

Multiagent chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for multifocal intraocular retinoblastoma. Ophthalmology. 2001;108:2106-2115. 9. Madreperla SA, Hungerford JL, Cooling RJ, Sullivan P, Gregor Z. Repair of late retinal detachment after successful treatment of retinoblastoma. Retina. 2000;20:28-32. 10. Baumal CR, Shields CL, Shields JA, Tasman WS. Surgical repair of rhegmatogenous retinal detachme...

Past research provided abundant evidence that exposure to violent video games increases aggressive tendencies and decreases prosocial tendencies. In contrast, research on the effects of exposure to prosocial video games has been relatively sparse. The present research found support for the hypothesis that exposure to prosocial video games is positively related to prosocial affect and negatively...

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