UNLABELLED Described is an algorithm to find the longest interval having at least a specified minimum bias in a sequence of characters (bases, amino acids), e.g. 'at least 0.95 (A+T)-rich'. It is based on an algorithm to find the longest interval having a non-negative sum in a sequence of positive and negative numbers. In practice, it runs in linear time; this can be guaranteed if the bias is r...

The negative-parity baryons are studied by a novel approach in the QCD sum rule. It is found that the parity of the ground-state nucleon is determined by the sign of the quark condensate. We predict the mass of negative-parity nucleon.

It is well-known that the sum of two $z$-ideals in $C(X)$ is either $C(X)$ or a $z$-ideal. The main aim of this paper is to study the sum of strongly $z$-ideals in ${mathcal{R}} L$, the ring of real-valued continuous functions on a frame $L$. For every ideal $I$ in ${mathcal{R}} L$, we introduce the biggest strongly $z$-ideal included in $I$ and the smallest strongly $z$-ideal containing ...