We examined the expression of candidate sex-determining genes in the red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta) during the temperature-sensitive period (TSP). Aromatase and Rspo1 were used as markers of ovarian differentiation and Sox9 was used as a marker of testicular differentiation. Eggs were incubated at a male-producing temperature (26 °C or MPT) and a female-producing temperature (31 °C...

The paper present some oscillation criteria for the nonlinear second-order damped delay dynamic equation ( r(t)|x∆(t)|β−1x∆(t) )∆ + p(t)|x∆σ (t)|β−1x∆σ (t) + q(t)f(x(τ(t))) = 0 on an arbitrary time scale T, where β > 0 is a constant, supT = ∞, σ(t) := inf{s ∈ T : s > t} is the forward jump operator on T, and x∆σ := x ◦ σ. Our results improve and extend some known results in which β > 0 is a quo...

Abnormally high glycated hemoglobin (Hb) (HbA1c) is significantly associated with oxidative stress and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Serum total bilirubin (T-B) may have a beneficial role in preventing oxidative changes and be a negative risk factor of CVD. Limited information is available on whether serum T-B is an independent confounding factor of HbA1c. The study subject...

This file is appended with the paper titled ”A Binary Matrix Factorization Algorithm for Protein Complex Prediction” as a supplementary document. In this file, all evaluation results on 42 percentage pairs of random additions and deletions are given. Also, a theoretical analysis on the computational efficiency and performance of the proposed BYY-BMF algorithm is presented. Some parts of theoret...

The stability of the gravity-driven flow of a viscous film coating the inside of a tube with a porous wall is studied theoretically. We used Darcy's law to describe the motion of fluids in a porous medium. The Beaver-Joseph condition is used to describe the discontinuity of velocity at the porous-fluid interface. We derived an evolution equation for the film thickness using a long-wave approxim...

In this paper, we introduce an autoregressive model which has an evolution that is driven by an exogenous pilot signal. This model shares some properties with TAR (Threshold Auto Regressive) models and STAR (Smooth Transition Auto Regressive) models. This text de nes the model, it presents an estimator for this model, and an estimator for the variance of the innovation, which is not constant in...

Since p = β T −1 b in the final bargaining period, we can compute the upper bound on the remaining types such that selling to any possible type (by setting p = β T −2 b) is optimal according to the optimization problem: max p p · F (X) − F (p/β T −2 − βδb 1 − βδ) F (X) + F (p/β T −2 − βδb 1 − βδ) F (X) (β T −2 v + β T −1 δb). Therefore, optimal p in the final period satisfies: (1) v + βδb − p/β...

for all v∈ ={v∈W 0 (Ω), v≥ψ a.e. in Ω}. Here Ω is a bounded domain in RN (N≥2) with Lipschitz boundary, 2≤ p ≤N . A(x,ξ) :Ω×RN → RN satisfies the following conditions: (i) A is a vector valued function, the mapping x → A(x,ξ) is measurable for all ξ ∈ RN , ξ → A(x,ξ) is continuous for a.e. x ∈Ω; (ii) the homogeneity condition: A(x, tξ)= t|t|p−2A(x,ξ), t ∈ R, t = 0; (iii) the monotone inequality...

We consider a stochastic nonlinear fractional Langevin equation of two orders Dβ(Dα+γ)ψ(t)=λϑ(t,ψ(t))w˙(t),0<t≤1. Given some suitable conditions on the above parameters, we prove existence and uniqueness mild solution to initial value problem for using Banach fixed-point theorem (Contraction mapping theorem). The upper bound estimate second moment is given, which shows exponential growth in ...