the relationship between live body weight, body length, girth circumference, animal hight, upper, middle as well as lower width of fat-tail, fat-tail length, fat-tail gap length, fat-tail depth and fat-tail circumference along with fat-tail weight were determined using records of 731 loribakhtiari sheep. principal component and least square analyses were applied to solve the collinearity instab...

Abstract We numerically investigate the train-induced transient pressure on platform screen doors (PSDs) of an island-type in a subway station according to real scenarios and full-scale simulation enhance understanding design safe operation trains. Two typical cases, namely, non-stop chasing were examined, with train’s speed variation well simulated throughout both cases. In case, train passes ...

We prove an essentially sharp Ω̃(n/k) lower bound on the k-round distributional complexity of the k-step pointer chasing problem under the uniform distribution, when Bob speaks first. This is an improvement over Nisan and Wigderson’s Ω̃(n/k2) lower bound. A key part of the proof is using triangular discrimination instead of total variation distance; this idea may be useful elsewhere.

After years of effort, investigators at Vanderbilt and Columbia found the gene for heritable pulmonary hypertension (PH) nearly simultaneously in the year 2000. Mutations in the so-called bone morphogenetic protein receptor type 2 (BMPR2) are now known to be responsible for about 75% of cases of heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). In the other 25% of families, either the mutation r...

This article is based on the results of an analysis of existing biological collections in Russia and abroad set up in the framework of the project "Scientific Basis of the National Biobank -Depository of Living Systems" by M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University [1].