BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To our knowledge, no published functional map of the human lower brainstem exists. Our purpose was to use 1.5-T functional MR imaging (fMRI) to visualize the location of cranial nerve (CN) nuclei and other pontine, bulbar, and cervical spinal cord nuclei by using specific sensory stimulation or motor performance. METHODS We localized nuclei by using cross-correlation an...

The aims of this study were to investigate potential functional relationships among milk protein fractions in dairy cattle and carry out a structural equation model (SEM) GWAS provide decomposition total SNP effects into direct mediated by traits that are upstream phenotypic network. To achieve these aims, we first fitted mixed Bayesian multitrait genomic infer the correlations 6 nitrogen [4 ca...

Complex networks (CN) have received considerable attention recently since the investigation of small-world and the characterization of scale-free have been discovered in many real networks. Power grids have been widely acknowledged as a typical type of CN. Many works have applied concepts and measurements of CN to analyze the structural vulnerabilities or the mechanism of cascading failure in p...

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic parameters for milk protein fraction contents, milk protein composition, and milk coagulation properties (MCP). Contents of α(S1)-, α(S2)-, β-, γ-, and κ-casein (CN), β-lactoglobulin (β-LG), and α-lactalbumin (α-LA) were measured by reversed-phase HPLC in individual milk samples of 2,167 Simmental cows. Milk protein composition was measured as...

We consider a Hermitian matrix valued function A(x) ∈ C, smoothly depending on parameters x ∈ Ω ⊂ R, where Ω is an open bounded region of R. We develop an algorithm to locate parameter values where the eigenvalues of A coalesce. We give theoretical justification and implementation details. Finally, we illustrate the technique on several problems. Notation. With A ∈ Cn×n we indicate an n×n compl...

The (eco)toxicity of the most common ionic liquid anions like [N(CN)(2)](-), [C(CN)(3)](-), [B(CN)(4)](-), [(CF(3)SO(2))(2)N](-), [(C(2)F(5))(3)PF(3)](-) was investigated in test systems of different trophic level. In the same order, and thus with increasing hydrophobicity, a trend of higher toxicity was found. Especially the [(C(2)F(5))(3)PF(3)](-) moiety poses a significant hazard towards aqu...

In Collaborative Network (CN) environments, creation of collective understanding about both the aimed outcome and the procedure for achieving it by its members is the antecedent to any successful co-working and codevelopment. While a part of the common CN knowledge is pre-existing to its establishment, once the collaboration activities begin the emergent knowledge also needs to be commonly unde...

Objective(s): Calcineurin (CN) is a main phosphatase and a critical regulator of cellular pathways for learning, memory, and plasticity. The FK-506 (tacrolimus),a phosphatase inhibitor, is a fungal-derived agent and a common immune suppressant extensively used for tissue transplantation. To further clarify the role of CN in different stages oflearning and memory the main aim of this study was t...

Local structure in the colossal thermal expansion material Ag3[Co(CN)6] is studied here using a combination of neutron total scattering and reverse Monte Carlo (RMC) analysis. We show that the large thermal variations in cell dimensions occur with minimal distortion of the [Co(CN)6] coordination polyhedra, but involve significant flexing of the Co–CN–Ag–NC– Co linkages. We find real-space evide...

Let {a1, a2, . . . , an} be an alphabet of n symbols and let Cn be the language of circular shifts of the word a1a2 · · · an; so Cn = {a1a2 · · · an−1an, a2a3 · · · ana1, . . . , ana1 · · · an−2an−1}. We discuss a few families of context-free grammars Gn (n ≥ 1) in Chomsky normal form such that Gn generates Cn. The grammars in these families are investigated with respect to their descriptional ...