Mouse cone photoreceptors, like those of most mammals including humans, express cone opsins derived from two ancient families: S-opsin (gene Opn1sw) and M-opsin (gene Opn1mw). Most C57Bl/6 mouse cones co-express both opsins, but in dorso-ventral counter-gradients, with M-opsin dominant in the dorsal retina and S-opsin in the ventral retina, and S-opsin 4-fold greater overall. We created a mouse...

Planning systems such as FF-Metric [3] and SAPA [2] are able to deal with numerical knowledge to solve resources constraints added to the symbolic planning domain. This paper presents the NGP (Numerical Graph Planning) that is able to solve totally numerical and/or symbolic planning domains. We propose a new action representation to support numerical conditions and effects, where we allow a non...

The aim of this study is to propose a method for the evaluation of railway passengers’ comfort in relationship to temperature, noise, and vibration. Estimated the single comfort for every sensation considered, the global comfort is evaluated with the Hyper-Sphere Method proposed by Corriere & Lo Bosco [1]. The humanvehicle-infrastructure-environment variables which influence comfort are individ...

No collection of laws from the iNeo-Assyrian period is known to us. If a text of this kind had ever existed, it seems highly likely that it would have been part of Assurbanipal's famous library in Nineveh. But neither in Nineveh nor in twenty-three excavated sites located in different parts of the empire have archaeologists have succeeded in unearthing so much as a fragment of such a text. In a...

Introduction. The notion of a division ring can be generalized to give a system whose addition is not necessarily associative, but which retains the property of coordinatizing an affine plane. Such a system will be called a planar division neo-ring (PDNR); examples of (infinite) PDNRs which are not division rings are known. If (R, +, •) is a finite power-associative PDNR, then (R, +) is shown t...

Mathematical Platonism is the view that mathematical objects exist. Traditional Pla-tonists believe that a world with no mathematical objects is consistent; subtle Platonists believe that such a world would be inconsistent. The easiest way of getting a handle on traditional Platonism is by imagining a creation myth. On the first day God created light; by the sixth day, she had created a large a...

As the ages of the patients concerned may vary from a matter of hours to weeks, and, as feeding difficulties have usually rendered them underweight, it will be appreciated that these factors, when reinforced perhaps by vomiting and increased liability to respiratory infection, make anesthesia in infants one of the major problems to be faced in anaesthetic practice. When operation is not a matte...

1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Methods and Materials 3.1. Generation of the targeting vector 3.2. Electroporation, selection and screening of embryonic stem (ES) cells 3.3. Blastocyst injection and animal breeding 3.4. Isolation of RNA, Quantitative PCR and whole-mount in situ hybridization 3.5. Skeletal X-rays and staining 4. Results 4.1. Generation of Zic3 4.2. Upregulation of Zic3 expression...