Contractile roots (CRs) that pull shoots further down in the soil are a possible example of convergent evolution in two monocot families, the Agavaceae and the Asphodelaceae. The association between CRs, water uptake and habitat aridity was investigated for agaves, yuccas and aloes by assessing the occurrence of CRs and the amount of root contraction for glasshouse-grown plants with respect to ...

Genetic studies of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) have identified a total of 53 CRS-associated SNPs that were subsequently evaluated for their reproducibility in a recent study. The rs2873551 SNP in linkage disequilibrium with PARS2 showed the strongest association signal. The present study aims to comprehensively screen for rare variants in PARS2 and evaluate for accumulation of such variants in...

Objective/Hypothesis Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a complex inflammatory disease of the upper respiratory airways resulting from the dysregulation of immunity and epithelial defenses. More recently, the contribution of an altered nasal microbiome to the development of CRS has also been proposed. However, the impact of aging on the development of CRS has been long overlooked. Here we propose,...

Preliminary particle size specifications have been developed on Cationic Slow Set (CSS) and Medium (CMS) emulsions. Therefore, there is a need for standard specification asphalt emulsions that encompass Rapid (CRS) with additives such as solid polymer latex polymer. This research links metrics to quality-control tests performance test CRS-2, CRS-2P, CRS-2L The moderate correlation between stora...

We develop a variational framework to understand the properties of functions learned by fitting deep neural networks with rectified linear unit activations data. propose new function space, which is reminiscent classical bounded variation-type spaces, that captures compositional structure associated networks. derive representer theorem showing ReLU are solutions regularized data problems over f...

The Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) is a consistent and sensitive behavioral assessment standard for disorders of consciousness (DOC) patients. However, the CRS-R has limitations due to its dependence on behavioral markers, which has led to a high rate of misdiagnosis. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which directly detect brain activities without any behavioral expression, can be used to ...

The two times-cytoreductive surgery (CRS) seems to be effective treatment because it allows complete removal of widespread masses and a reduction of surgical complications for pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) with high PCI. The present study verified the indication and prognostic factors of two times-CRS for patients with PMP. Between 2006 and 2017, 85(22.8%) patients were programmed a two times-su...

For a Banach algebra $fA$, we introduce ~$c.c(fA)$, the set of all $phiin fA^*$ such that $theta_phi:fAto fA^*$ is a completely continuous operator, where $theta_phi$ is defined by $theta_phi(a)=acdotphi$~~ for all $ain fA$. We call $fA$, a completely continuous Banach algebra if $c.c(fA)=fA^*$. We give some examples of completely continuous Banach algebras and a suffici...

Within the framework of kernel methods, linear data methods have almost completely been extended to their nonlinear counterparts. In this paper, we focus on nonlinear kernel techniques based on the Mahalanobis distance. Two approaches are distinguished here. The first one assumes an invertible covariance operator, while the second one uses a regularized covariance. We discuss conceptual and exp...