MOTIVATION 16S rDNA hypervariable tag sequencing has become the de facto method for accessing microbial diversity. Illumina paired-end sequencing, which produces two separate reads for each DNA fragment, has become the platform of choice for this application. However, when the two reads do not overlap, existing computational pipelines analyze data from read separately and underutilize the infor...

T demonstrate post hoc robustness of decision problems to parameter estimates, analysts may conduct a probabilistic sensitivity analysis, assigning distributions to uncertain parameters and computing the probability of decision change. In contrast to classical threshold proximity methods of sensitivity analysis, no appealing graphical methods are available to present the results of a probabilis...

The aim of our study was to quantify changes in the activity of tyrosine decarboxylase (TYDC) within tissues of two cultivars of winter triticale: Triticosecale (Wittm. ex A. Camus), caused by grain aphid, and Sitobion avenae (F.). Obtained results show that Witon cv was less acceptable by S. avenae than Tornado cv and that antibiosis was an important part of the acceptability. The grain aphid ...

A transformation is derived which takes the Lorenz integrable system into the well-known Euler equations of a torque-free rigid body about a fixed point, i.e. the famous motionà la Poinsot. The proof is based on Lie group analysis applied to two third-order ordinary differential equations admitting the same two-dimensional Lie symmetry algebra. Lie's classification of two-dimensional symmetry a...

Field surveys were made one week after tornadoes killed 40 persons and injured over 300 in rural regions of Alabama and Georgia, USA, on 27 March 1994. Surveys were completed for samples of 20 persons who were killed and 31 persons who were in the paths of the tornadoes but survived to determine whether there were differences in personal characteristics, behavior or location between the two gro...

Migration is generally considered to be one of the primary responses to a natural disaster. The existing literature widely acknowledges the fact that disaster victims migrate from affected areas. This paper, though, provides empirical evidence of the non-occurrence of out-migration in the aftermath of the 14 April 2004 tornado in Bangladesh. Data collected from 291 respondents from eight tornad...

A transformation is derived which takes Lorenz integrable system into the well-known Euler equations of a free-torque rigid body with a fixed point, i.e. the famous motionà la Poinsot. The proof is based on Lie group analysis applied to two third order ordinary differential equations admitting the same two-dimensional Lie symmetry algebra. Lie's classification of two-dimensional symmetry algebr...