The star graph Sn has been recognized as an attractive alternative to the hypercube. Since S1; S2, and S3 have trivial structures, we focus our attention on Sn with n¿4 in this paper. Let Fv denote the set of faulty vertices in Sn. We show that when |Fv|6n− 5; Sn with n¿6 contains a fault-free path of length n! − 2|Fv| − 2 (n! − 2|Fv| − 1) between arbitrary two vertices of even (odd) distance. ...

The star graph has been recognized as an attractive alternative to the hypercube. Let Fe and Fv be the sets of vertex faults and edge faults, respectively. Previously, Tseng et al. showed that an n-dimensional star graph can embed a ring of length n! if |Fe |≤n-3 (|Fv|=0), and a ring of length at least n!-4|Fv | if |Fv |≤n-3 (|Fe |=0). Since an n-dimensional star graph is regular of degree n-1 ...

Proof. Let L be a Lipschitz constant that applies to all utility functions. Suppose each message in the set V is Lipschitz continuous with Lipschitz constant L. Consider the message from an activity a to a resource r ∈ R(a). Define X a\r , ∏r∈R(a)\r Xr to be the space of consumption bundles for activity a, excluding resource r. Without loss of generality, assume that (FV )a→r(xar) ≥ (FV )a→r(xa...

The crossed cube CQn is an important variant of the hypercube Qn and possesses many desirable properties for interconnection networks. This paper shows that in CQn with fv faulty vertices and fe faulty edges there exists a fault-free path of length ` between any two distinct fault-free vertices for each ` satisfying 2n−1 − 1 ≤ ` ≤ 2n − fv − 1 provided that fv + fe ≤ n − 3, where the lower bound...

PURPOSE I investigated the diagnostic accuracy of balloon expulsion test (BET) with various techniques to find out the most appropriate method, and tried to confirm its clinical utility in diagnosing functional defecation disorders (FDD) in constipated patients. METHODS Eighty-seven patients constituted the study population. FDD was defined when patients had at least two positive findings in ...

Carriership of the factor V (FV) Leiden mutation increases the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) ~4-fold, but the individual risk of each FV Leiden carrier depends on several co-inherited risk and protective factors. Under the hypothesis that thrombin generation might serve as an intermediate phenotype to identify genetic modulators of VTE risk, we enrolled 188 FV Leiden heterozygotes (11 wi...

For the past two decades, scientists from around the world, working on different aspects of foamy virus (FV) research, have gathered in different research institutions almost every two years to present their recent results in formal talks, to discuss their ongoing studies informally, and to initiate fruitful collaborations. In this report we review the 2014 anniversary conference to share the m...

Possibleassociationshave been soughtbetween cell surface Friend murine erythroleukemia virus (FV)-en codedmoleculesandH-2 moleculesby subjectingspleen cells from infected mice to antibody-inducedcappingof one moleculeand then examiningthe cells for cocapping of the second.Cappingwas detectedbythe resistanceof capped cells to lysis by the capping antiserum and com plement. Three strains of mice ...

The stalk, ear and root rot (SERR) of maize caused by Fusarium verticillioides (Fv) severely impacts crop production in tropical and subtropical regions. The aim of the present work was to screen bacterial isolates in order to find novel native biocontrol agents against Fv. A culturable bacterial collection consisting of 11,520 isolates enriched in Firmicutes and Proteobacteria was created from...

Restriction enzyme and Southern gel analyses were used to determine the number and location of endogenous ecotropic retroviruses in the germ line of several mouse strains congenic at the Fv-2 gene locus. A new endogenous ecotropic provirus was observed in the germ line of B6.S (Fv-2ss) mice, in addition to the resident provirus found in its congenic partner C57BL/6 (Fv-2rr). This new provirus w...