A Paramecium cell has a stereotypically patterned surface, with regularly arranged cilia, dense-core secretory vesicles and subplasmalemmal calcium stores. Less strikingly, there is also a patterning of molecules; for instance, some ion channels are restricted to certain regions of the cell surface. This design may explain very effective and selective responses, such as that to Ca(2+) upon stim...

Possessive constructions like John’s teacher, John’s team, John’s cat, friend of John’s offer an interesting test-bed for the argument-modifier distinction in NPs, both in English and cross-linguistically. Many, perhaps all, possessives seem to have some properties of arguments and some of modifiers, but some seem more argument-like and some more modifier-like. Recent proposals by Jensen and Vi...

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This paper gives a brief description of the author’s database of integer sequences, now over 35 years old, together with a selection of a few of the most interesting sequences in the table. Many unsolved problems are mentioned. This paper was published (in a somewhat different form) in Sequences and their Applications (Proceedings of SETA ’98), C. Ding, T. Helleseth and H. Niederreiter (editors...

How can off-the-shelf editors be reused in applications that need mature editing support? We describe our editor multiplexer which enables interactive, application guided editing sessions using GNU Emacs and Vim. At a cost of less than 1 KLOC of editor-specific glue code, both IDE builders and users benefit. Rapid integration of existing editors reduces application development cost, and users a...

We review the past ten years in computational complexity theory by focusing on ten theorems that the author enjoyed the most. We use each of the theorems as a springboard to discuss work done in various areas of complexity theory.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES There are limited studies investigating the eating patterns of children's favorite foods. The present study aimed to evaluate a wide range of children's favorite foods, derive its eating patterns, and identify factors related to the patterns. SUBJECTS/METHODS A nationwide cross-sectional study included 5,458 students in elementary, middle, and high schools. The survey wa...

background and purpose: with regards to the importance of women’s beliefs in improving pregnancy outcomes, this study was performed to determine the perceived internal control on future pregnancy outcomes and its related factors in women who participated in pre‑marital counseling. materials and methods: in a cross‑sectional study, women’s perceived internal control was investigated. the study p...

We suggest a method for monotonizing general kernel-type estimators, for example local linear estimators and Nadaraya–Watson estimators. Attributes of our approach include the fact that it produces smooth estimates, indeed with the same smoothness as the unconstrained estimate. The method is applicable to a particularly wide range of estimator types, it can be trivially modified to render an es...