The recent advent of high-throughput sequencing and genotyping technologies makes it possible to produce, easily and cost effectively, large amounts of detailed data on the genotype composition of populations. Detecting locus-specific effects may help identify those genes that have been, or are currently, targeted by natural selection. How best to identify these selected regions, loci, or singl...

A military post on the Indus 54 miles south of Peshawur, 14 from Attock, and through a hot, dusty, dull, outof-the-way, isolated, little sandy oasis,?a very healthy station occupied by a Cavalry regiment or a battery of Artillery. No civilians, no metalled roads, scanty rainfall, tantalizing clouds: plenty of wild sheep, and in the luxuriant corn abundance of quail. Ice and other necessaries pr...

Inula grantioides (Boiss.) syn. /. cutchica Clarke is found in South West Pakistan, Karachi (Sindh), Kutch, Indus delta and Baluchistan. The plant is recommended for the treatment of asthma. This plant has not been subjected to chemical investiga­ tion so far. In the present paper we wish to report the isolation of two new flavones, grantionin 1 and grantioidinin 2 along with pluchidione 3, a k...

Global water use for food production needs to be reduced remain within planetary boundaries, yet the financial feasibility of crucial measures reduce is poorly quantified. Here, we introduce a novel method compare costs conservation with added value that reallocation savings might generate if used expansion irrigation. Based on detailed accounting through high-resolution hydrology-crop model, m...

The valley degree of freedom in two-dimensional (2D) crystals recently emerged as a novel information carrier in addition to spin and charge. The intrinsic valley lifetime in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) is expected to be markedly long due to the unique spin-valley locking behavior, where the intervalley scattering of the electron simultaneously requires a large momentum transfer t...

The increasing availability of large data offers an exciting opportunity to use such data to build predictive models using machine learning algorithms. However, most approaches to learning assume direct access to data, and can not efficiently cope with frequent updates to the data. In this paper we show that learning using statistical queries provides a powerful paradigm to address these challe...

0.1 This is a preliminary announcement of a new identification of a frequent ‘opening’ sign in the Indus texts. The sign, depicting a ‘crescent moon’, is identified, through rebus, as representing the ‘outer (city)’ and the ‘others’. I have also added, with some new evidence, two other complementary identifications earlier proposed by me, namely, the ‘(planned) city’ and the ‘inner (city)’ or ‘...

We show that inversion symmetry breaking together with spin-orbit coupling leads to coupled spin and valley physics in monolayers of MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides, making possible controls of spin and valley in these 2D materials. The spin-valley coupling at the valence-band edges suppresses spin and valley relaxation, as flip of each index alone is forbidden by the valley-contrasting...

This study examines the approach to depreciation adopted by companies engaged in two light engineering industries associated with second industrial revolution: cycle and motor vehicle indus...

During 2 successive rainy seasons, January 2008 through May 2008 and November 2008 through March 2009, Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) caused outbreaks in Madagascar. Human and animal infections were confirmed on the northern and southern coasts and in the central highlands. Analysis of partial sequences from RVFV strains showed that all were similar to the strains circulating in Kenya during 20...