Resistance breeding is the most effective method to control northern corn leaf blight (NCLB). The objectives were (1) Assess effects of dominant genes (Ht(s)), polygene (PG), and their combinations disease rating (DR), number lesions per (NLPL), lesion size (LS); (2) Estimate genetic components, general combining abilities (GCA), heritability under two Line × Tester analyses; (3) Determine gene...

In the first study, we tested the ability of a commercial feed additive (OmniGen-AF) to affect markers of innate immunity in immunosuppressed sheep and the ability of a pathogen challenge (mould) to affect the immune response to the additive. Treatments consisted of (1) control, (2) immunosuppressed with dexamethasone (DEX), (3) immunosuppressed plus the feed additive, (4) immunosuppressed plus...

AIM To study the genetic association and epistatic interaction of the interleukin (IL)-10 and IL-10/STAT3 pathways in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). METHODS A total of 159 pediatric inflammatory IBD patients (Crohn's disease, n = 136; ulcerative colitis, n = 23) and 129 matched controls were studied for genetic association of selected single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the...

A category with biproducts is enriched over (commutative) additive monoids. A category with tensor products is enriched over scalar multiplication actions. A symmetric monoidal category with biproducts is enriched over semimodules. We show that these extensions of enrichment (e.g. from hom-sets to homsemimodules) are functorial, and use them to make precise the intuition that “compact objects a...

This note shows how to formalize a small set of general facts about buying and selling. We begin with summarizing properties of buying/selling informally in English, and give examples of consequences of these assumptions. Then we formalize our assumptions in action language C+ with additive fluents and actions and test the adequacy of the proposed formalization using the Causal Calculator.

In the context of decision under uncertainty, we characterize the 2-additive Choquet integral on the set of fictitious acts called binary alternatives or binary actions. This characterization is based on a fundamental property called MOPI which permits us to relate belief functions and the 2additive Choquet integral. Keywords—Capacity, Möbius transform, Choquet integral, k-monotone function, Be...

Seizures remain uncontrolled in 30% of patients with epilepsy, even with concurrent use of multiple drugs, and uncontrolled seizures result in increased morbidity and mortality. An extreme example is Dravet syndrome (DS), an infantile-onset severe epilepsy caused by heterozygous loss of function mutations in SCN1A, the gene encoding the brain type-I voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.1. Studies ...

To enable the assessment of compound heterozygosity, we propose a simple approach for incorporating genotype phase in a rare variant collapsing procedure for the analysis of DNA sequence data. When multiple variants are identified within a gene, knowing the phase of each variant may provide additional statistical power to detect associations with phenotypes that follow a recessive or additive i...

This paper explores alternative axiomatizations of subjective expected utility theory for decision makers with direct preferences over actions; including a general subjective expected utility representation with actiondependent utility, and separately additive representations. In the context of the state-space formulation of agency theory the results of this paper constitute axiomatic foundatio...

We describe a diagrammatic procedure which lifts strict monoidal actions from additive categories to categories of complexes avoiding any use of direct sums. As an application, we prove that every simple transitive 2-representation of the 2-category of projective bimodules over a finite dimensional algebra is equivalent to a cell 2-representation.