The view is examined that the adaptive value of conventional aspects of fighting behaviour is for assessment of relat~ve KMP (resource holding oower) of the combatants. Outcomes o t aggressive disputes should be decided by each individual's fitness budget avaiiltble for expenditure during a fight (determined by the fitness difference between adoption of alternative strategies, escalation or wit...

The most important features of a string matching algorithm are its eeciency and its exibility. EEciency has traditionally received more attention, while exibility in the search pattern is becoming a more and more important issue. Most classical string matching algorithms are aimed at quickly nding an exact pattern in a text, being Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP) and the Boyer-Moore (BM) family the mos...

We are interested in explicitly parametrizing the moduli spaces Mg,k of embedded surfaces in R with finite genus g and a finite number of ends k having constant mean curvature. By rescaling we may assume this constant is 1, the mean curvature of the unit sphere. Two surfaces in R are indentified as points inMg,k if there is isometry of R carrying one surface to the other. Moreover, we shall inc...

After structural synthesis, an appropriate gate-level structure has to be found. While the controller can be synthesized quickly the datapath might become too large so that a partitioning step has to be carried out. As pointed out above, our approach tries to minimize the number of tasks for logic synthesis (i.e. the number of blocks) while achieving a close to optimum realization. This is done...

We give many examples of surfaces of general type with pg = 0 for which Bloch’s conjecture holds, for all values of K2 6= 9. Our surfaces are equipped with an involution. Let S be a smooth complex projective surface with pg(S) = 0. Bloch’s conjecture states that the Albanese map A0(S)0 → Alb(S) is an isomorphism, where A0(S)0 is the Chow group of 0-cycles of degree 0 on S. It is known for all s...

We show that the Ehrenfeucht-Mycielski sequence U is strongly balanced in the following sense: for any finite word w of length k, the limiting frequency of w in U is 2. 1. The Ehrenfeucht-Mycielski Sequence In [2] Ehrenfeucht and Mycielski introduced an infinite binary word based on avoiding repetitions. More precisely, to construct the Ehrenfeucht-Mycielski (EM) sequence U , start with a singl...

1 Comment on " Why is the DNA denaturation transition first order? " Recently, Kafri, Mukamel and Peliti (KMP) [1] extended the classical Poland-Scheraga (PS) model for the denaturation transition of DNA [2]. According to PS, the energetic binding of bases in the double helix competes with the entropic contribution of denatured loops, implying that the nature of the transition depends on the ex...

—Climate change will likely pose a severe threat to the viability of certain forest tree species, which will be forced either to adapt to new conditions or to shift to more favorable environments if they are to survive. Several forest tree species of the central and southern Appalachians may be at particular risk, since they occur in limited high-elevation ranges and/or are currently threatened...

We have used monoclonal antibodies specific for acetylated and unacetylated a-tubulin to characterize the acetylated a-tubulin isotype of Physarum polycephalum, its expression in the life cycle, and its localization in particular microtubular organelles. We have used the monoclonal antibody 6-11B-1 (Piperno, G., and M. T. Fuller, 1985, J. Cell Biol., 101:2085-2094) as the probe for acetylated c...

OBJECTIVE Rikkunshito, an herbal medicine, is widely prescribed in Japan for the treatment of anorexia and functional dyspepsia, and has been reported to recover reductions in food intake caused by cisplatin. We investigated whether rikkunshito could improve chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) and anorexia in patients treated with cisplatin. METHODS Patients with uterine cervical ...