Background: Quantitative fluorescence-polymerase chain reaction (QF-PCR) is an inexpensive and accurate method for the prenatal diagnosis of aneuploidies that applies short tandem repeats (STRs) as a chromosome-specific marker. Despite its apparent advantages, QF-PCR is not applicable in all cases due to the presence of uninformative STRs. This study was carried out to investigate the efficienc...

E. Rosa∗, M. Kadlerb,c,d,e , Y. Y. Kovaleva, f ,†, H. D. Allerg , M. F. Allerg , S. Kaufmannh aMax-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany bDr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstrasse 7, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany cErlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Erwin-Rommel-Str. 1, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany dCRESST/NASA Goddard S...

Ioana Duţan1,3 and Peter L. Biermann2,3 1University of Bucharest, Faculty of Physics Str. Atomiştilor, 405, RO-76900, Bucureşti-Mǎgurele, România 2University of Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg, 3, D-53113, Bonn, Germany 3Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy Auf dem Hűgel, 69, D-53121, Bonn, Germany [email protected]; [email protected] Abstra t The e ien y of a rapidly spinning Kerr b...

1 Infrared Processing and Analysis Centre, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA e-mail: [email protected] 2 Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85741 Garching, Germany 3 Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria), Avda. de los Castros s/n, Santander, Spain 4 Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Alan Turing Building, ...

Twelve new species of the genus Cephennium Müler & Kunze, 1822 are described: C. (s. str.) irenae sp. n. (from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro); C. (s. str.) sladjanae sp. n. and C. (s. str.) fallax sp. n. (both from Serbia and Bulgaria); C. (s. str.) viti sp. n. (from Serbia, Macedonia, Greece and Bulgaria); C. (s. str.) fairchildi sp. n., C. (s. str.) ivanjicense sp. n., C. (s....

The development of new biopharmaceuticals relies on robust scale-up from small-scale screening studies to industrial bioreactors. Novel SUB designs can prove highly beneficial, although they lack the extensive characterisation traditional STRs. Pall Corporation’s Allegro™ STR 50-2000 L bioreactor range has a unique design square cross-section, with three wedge-shaped baffles. A scale-down 1 pro...

The interferometric SAR mission TanDEM-X started in 2010 and comprises the two twin satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X. Its primary objective is to generate a worldwide, consistent, and high-precision digital elevation model (DEM). Two global coverages have been completed until August 2013, and a very good performance has been verified for most of the land masses. However, some areas all around...

Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str. (genus Paederus Fabricius, 1775) are reviewed. Paederus (s. str.) xinjiangensis Li & Zhou, n. sp. is described from Xinjiang, Northwest China. Male genitalia and other critical characters are illustrated for five other Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str., namely P. (s. str.) socius Bernhauer, 1916, P. (s. str.) coxalis Fauvel, 1895, ...

Let $D$ be a finite and simple digraph with vertex set $V(D)$‎.‎A signed total Roman $k$-dominating function (STR$k$DF) on‎‎$D$ is a function $f:V(D)rightarrow{-1‎, ‎1‎, ‎2}$ satisfying the conditions‎‎that (i) $sum_{xin N^{-}(v)}f(x)ge k$ for each‎‎$vin V(D)$‎, ‎where $N^{-}(v)$ consists of all vertices of $D$ from‎‎which arcs go into $v$‎, ‎and (ii) every vertex $u$ for which‎‎$f(u)=-1$ has a...