Morphometrics of Brazilian strains (BH, SJ and CMO) of Schistosoma mansoni cercariae were obtained with a computerized image analyzer (IMAGE PRO PLUS, MEDIA CYBERNETICS), considering the following characters: body area, tail, furcae, oral and ventral suckers and distance between them. For statistical analysis, the variance test (one-way Anova) was applied and significant differences of p< 0.05 ...

Grafting has been found to effectively reduce the prickly nature of Zanthoxylum armatum seedlings, but molecular mechanisms are unclear. A comparative transcriptome analysis was performed on stems (JJ) and leaves (JY) grafted (SJ) (SY) non-grafted seedlings. The authors obtained 3097, 2124, 5995, 5043 differentially expressed genes from JJ vs. SJ, JY SY, JJ, SY SJ with 17 co-expressed genes. RN...

Antigen receptor variable region exons are assembled during lymphocyte development from variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segments. Each germ-line gene segment is flanked by recombination signal sequences (RSs). Recombination-activating gene endonuclease initiates V(D)J recombination by cleaving a pair of gene segments at their junction with flanking RSs to generate covalently s...

Let S be a Todorov surface, i.e., a minimal smooth surface of general type with q = 0 and pg = 1 having an involution i such that S/i is birational to a K3 surface and such that the bicanonical map of S is composed with i. The main result of this paper is that, if P is the minimal smooth model of S/i, then P is the minimal desingularization of a double cover of P ramified over two cubics. Furth...

The observation of the D∗ sJ (2317), DsJ (2460), and SELEX D ∗ sJ (2632) states with properties differing considerably from what was expected has led to a renewed interest in hadron spectroscopy. In addition to these states, non-strange partners of the DsJ states have also been observed. Understanding the D∗ 0 and D ′ 1 states can provide important insights into the DsJ states. In this contribu...

Let s = s1..sn be a text (or sequence) on a finite alphabet Σ. A fingerprint in s is the set of distinct characters contained in one of its substrings. Fingerprinting a text consists of computing the set F of all fingerprints of all its substrings. A fingerprint, f ∈ F , admits a number of maximal locations 〈i, j〉 in S, that is the alphabet of si..sj is f and si−1, sj+1, if defined, are not in ...

Expert knowledge consists of statements Sj (facts and rules). The expert’s degree of confidence in each statement Sj can be described as a (subjective) probability (some probabilities are known to be independent). Examples: if we are interested in oil, we should look at seismic data (confidence 90%); a bank A trusts a client B, so if we trust A, we should trust B too (confidence 99%). If a quer...