J.-C. Walter, 2 M. Baiesi, 4 G. T. Barkema, 1 and E. Carlon Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Institute for Theoretical Physics, KULeuven, Celestijnenlaan 200D, Leuven, Belgium Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, Padova, Italy INFN, Sezione di Padova, Via Marzolo 8, Padova, Italy Institute for Theoretical...

Although the security properties of 3G and 4G mobile networks have significantly improved by comparison with 2G (GSM), significant shortcomings remain with respect to user privacy. A number of possible modifications to 2G, 3G and 4G protocols have been proposed designed to provide greater user privacy; however, they all require significant alterations to the existing deployed infrastructures, w...

Bonds are traded in over-the-counter markets, where opacity and fragmentation imply large transaction costs for retail investors. Is there something special about bonds, in contrast to stocks, precluding transparent limit-order markets? Historical experience suggests this is not the case. Before WWII, there was an active market in corporate and municipal bonds on the NYSE. Activity dropped dram...

T has long been known in different species that some individuals carry lethals I even though they were descended from lethal-free ancestors. These lethals usually have originated by mutation at various loci. There exists, however, a second possible source for new lethals. Since individuals in a population are heterozygous for a large array of loci, recombination, it has been argued, might give ...

Piccoli GB, Soragna G, Rossetti M, Putaggio S, Perrotta L, Bonetto A, Magnano A, Vercellone F (2005) NonCompliance after a Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation – A Narrative CaseAnalysis Involving Different PatientPhysician Relationships and Ethical Frames. Tx Med 17: 107-114 Non-Compliance after a Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation – A Narrative Case-Analysis Involving Different Patient-Physician Rela...

There has recently been a surge of research efforts aimed at very early detection of disease outbreaks. An important strategy for improving the timeliness of outbreak detection is to identify signals that occur early in the epidemic process. We have developed a novel algorithm to identify aggregates of "similar" over-the-counter products that have strong association with a given disease. This p...

The current study was conducted to investigate the optimum stunning voltage and chilling regime with emphasis on reduction in pale, soft and exudative (PSE) pork. The experiments were conducted at seven Korean major pig abattoirs using a total of 91,082 industrial population. Frequencies of PSE meat was found to be significantly (p<0.05) increased as stunning voltage was elevated from 220-240 (...

Monoclonal antibodies can bind with high affinity and high selectivity to their targets. As a tool in therapeutics or diagnostics, however, their large size (∼150 kDa) reduces penetration into tissue and prevents passive cellular uptake. To overcome these and other problems, minimized protein scaffolds have been chosen or engineered, with care taken to not compromise binding affinity or specifi...

Disruption of interactions among ensembles of epistatic loci has been shown to contribute to reproductive isolation among various animal and plant species. Under the Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller model, such interspecific incompatibility arises as a by-product of genetic divergence in each species, and the Orr-Turelli model indicates that the number of loci involved in incompatible interactions may...

In the silkworm, Bombyx mori, normal markings are mainly controlled by the +P gene, which is located on the second chromosome. Due to a lack of crossing over in females, reciprocal backcrossed F1 (BC1) progenies were used for linkage analysis and mapping of the +P gene based on an SSR linkage map using silkworm strains P50 and H9, which are normal marking and sex-limited marking, respectively. ...