and Applied Analysis 3 The purpose of this paper is to present a general viscosity iteration process {xn}which is defined by xn 1 I − αnA Txn βnγf xn ( αn − βn ) xn 1.9 and to study the convergence of {xn}, where T is a nonexpansive mapping andA is a strongly positive linear operator, if {αn}, {βn} satisfy appropriate conditions, then iteration sequence {xn} converges strongly to the unique sol...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate in vivo the bonding of metallic orthodontic brackets with different adhesive systems. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty patients (10.5-15.1 years old) who had sought corrective orthodontic treatment at a University Orthodontic Clinic were evaluated. Brackets were bonded from the right second premolar to the left second premolar in the upper and lower...

We investigated the effects of jasmonic acid (JA) and ethylenediamine-di-o-hydroxyphenyl-acetic acid (EDDHA) on floral induction and induction of turions in the photoperiodically neutral clone Djelekovec of the species Spirodela polyrhiza in axenical cultures. JA (0.475–47.5 nmol L–1) promoted floral induction under long-day (LD) and short-day (SD) conditions, while it had no effect on turion i...

Linkage disequilibrium (LD) is bases of genomic selection, genomic marker imputation, marker assisted selection (MAS), quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, parentage testing and whole genome association studies. The Particular alleles at closed loci have a tendency to be co-inherited. In linked loci this pattern leads to association between alleles in population which is known as LD. Two metr...

Levodopa (LD) is used to increase dopamine level for treating Parkinson's disease. The major metabolism of LD to produce dopamine is decarboxylation. In order to understand the metabolism of LD; the electronic structure of levodopa was investigated at the Density Functional DFT/B3LYP level of theory using the 6-311+G** basis set, in the gas phase and in solution. LD is not planar, with the amin...

Hadwiger’s conjecture asserts that if a simple graph G has no Kt+1 minor, then its vertex set V (G) can be partitioned into t stable sets. This is still open, but we prove under the same hypotheses that V (G) can be partitioned into t sets X1, . . . ,Xt, such that for 1 ≤ i ≤ t, the subgraph induced on Xi has maximum degree at most a function of t. This is sharp, in that the conclusion becomes ...

Despite numerous observations linking protracted exposure to low-dose (LD) radiation and leukemia occurrence, the effects of LD irradiation on hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) remain poorly documented. Here, we show that adult HSCs are hypersensitive to LD irradiation. This hyper-radiosensitivity is dependent on an immediate increase in the levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that also promo...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of experimental diabetes on the oxidant and antioxidant status of latissimus dorsi (LD) muscles of male Wistar rats (220 +/- 5 g, N = 11). Short-term (5 days) diabetes was induced by a single injection of streptozotocin (STZ, 50 mg/kg, iv; glycemia >300 mg/dl). LD muscle of STZ-diabetic rats presented higher levels of thiobarbituri...

The Cray XT3 and Cray XT4 supports compilers from the Portland Group, PathScale, and the GNU Compiler Collection. The goal of the paper is to provide Cray XT users with an overview of the different compilers available in the Cray XT Programming Environment. Discussion will highlight the feature and performance differences between the compilers and provide guidelines in determining which compiler

The transcription factor Gli3 is important for brain and limb development. Mice homozygous for a mutation in Gli3 (Gli3Xt/Xt) have severe abnormalities of telencephalic development and previous studies have suggested that aberrant cell death may contribute to the Gli3Xt/Xt phenotype. We demonstrate that telencephalic cells from embryonic Gli3Xt/Xt embryos survive better and are more resistant t...