The primary function of the outermost, lipophilic layer of plant aerial surfaces, called the cuticle, is preventing non-stomatal water loss. Its exterior surface is often decorated with wax crystals, imparting a blue–grey color. Identification of the barley Cer-c, -q and -u genes forming the 101 kb Cer-cqu gene cluster encoding a novel polyketide synthase—the β-diketone synthase (DKS), a lipase...

that is, #Uq = φ(q), the Euler function. For n ∈ Uq we use n to denote the modular inverse of n, that is, nn ≡ 1 (mod q), n ∈ Uq. The classical question of D. H. Lehmer (see [9, Problem F12]) about the joint distribution of the parity of n and n has been solved by W. Zhang [19, 20]. Recently this question has been generalised by E. Alkan, F. Stan and A. Zaharescu [1] as follows. Given vector a ...

Lublin, F. D., Knobler, R. L., Kalman, B., Goldhaber, M., Marini, J. Perrault, M., D’Imperio, C., Joseph, J., Alkan, S. S. and Korngold, R. (1993) Autoimmunity 16, 267-274 Krakowski, M. and Owens, T. (1996) Eur. J. Immunol. 26, 1641-1646 Ferber, I. A., Brocke, S., Taylor-Edwards, C., Ridgway, W., Dinisco, C., Steinman, L., Dalton, D. and Fathman, C. G. (1996) J. Immunol. 156, 5-7 Tabi, Z., McCo...

The purpose of the article is to reveal symbolic foundations Ch. Alkan's second chamber concerto op. 10, which are also basis for composer's subsequent opuses. Chamber concerts not sufficiently covered by foreign researchers and unknown in our musicology, therefore this study relevant both as an example early manifestations symbolism work (romanticism), was a precursor French symbolist composer...

We consider generalizations of the Gale-Shapley (1962) Stable Marriage Problem to threesided families. Alkan (1988) gave an example which shows that in the case of general preferences stable matchings do not always exist. Here we suggest a more compact example. Danilov (2001) proved that stable matchings exist for some acyclic preferences and he raised the problem for the lexicographical-cyclic...

A method is described for estimating solubility by fitting both solute and solvent properties in a single equation. The method is illustrated by examining the solubilities of five rare gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe) and five 6permanent7 gases (O2, N2, CH4, CF4, SF6) in either n-alkane (C5H12 to C16H34) or alkan-1-ol (CH3OH to C11H23OH) solvents. Generally, the correlation (R2) values of the fits ac...