Egecioglu, ii. and J.B. Remmel, Brick tabloids and the connection matrices between bases of symmetric functions, Discrete Applied Mathematics 34 (1991) 107-120. Let H, denote the space of symmetric functions, homogeneous of degree n. In this paper we introduce a new set of combinatorial objects called I-brick tabloids and its variants, which we use *to give combinatorial interpretations of the ...

Nuts have high energy and fat contents, but nut intake does not promote weight gain or obesity, which may be partially explained by their proposed high satiety value. The primary aim of this study was to assess the effects of consuming almonds versus a baked food on postprandial appetite and neural responses to visual food stimuli. Twenty-two adults (19 women and 3 men) with a BMI between 25 an...

The effects of halogen lamp–microwave combination baking on the quality of cookies in terms of texture, color and spread ratio were studied. In addition, gelatinization and pasting properties of cookies baked in different ovens were assessed by using a Rapid Visco Analyzer. The hardness values of the cookies increased with increasing baking time and/or halogen power. The microwave power also co...

BACKGROUND The role of specific IgG(4) antibodies in natural tolerance acquisition remains a matter of debate; the specific IgE/IgG(4) ratio might add value to the measurement of absolute amounts of IgE for assessing the ongoing status of egg reactivity. OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the significance of IgG(4) antibodies to ovalbumin (OVA) and ovomucoid (OVM) in egg-allergic children. ME...

BACKGROUND Brick tea type fluorosis is a public health concern in the north-west area of China. The association between SNPs of genes influencing bone mass and fluorosis has attracted attention, but the association of SNPs with the risk of brick-tea type of fluorosis has not been reported. OBJECTIVE To investigate the modifying roles of GSTP1 rs1695 polymorphisms on this association. METHOD...

A number of research studies focus on the ways digital games can provide a rich context for students to experiment, explore and engage in meaningful formalism. These researches suggest that games can help students develop valuable skills in the transitional stage between intuitions (informal) and formal mathematics. This can be done either by playing, designing games, or reflecting on game’s ru...

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) has been a popular method for modeling audio signals, in particular for single-channel source separation. An important factor in the success of NMF-based algorithms is the “quality” of the basis functions that are obtained from training data. In order to model rich signals such as speech or wide ranges of non-stationary noises, NMF typically requires usin...

This paper proposes, for low buildings, an integrated wall structure of a brick-stem-insulating layer, which plays a major part in both heat preservation and force bearing. The research team has tested the thermal performance of the structure, the results of which are satisfying. To further study the force-bearing performance, the paper carries out compressive tests of specimens of different st...

The associahedron is a polytope whose graph is the graph of flips on triangulations of a convex polygon. Pseudotriangulations and multitriangulations generalize triangulations in two different ways, which have been unified by Pilaud and Pocchiola in their study of pseudoline arrangements with contacts supported by a given network. In this paper, we construct the “brick polytope” of a network, o...