Otoacoustic emissions (OAEs) differ between the sexes in humans, rhesus and marmoset monkeys, and sheep. OAEs also are different in a number of special populations of humans. Those basic findings are reviewed and discussed in the context of possible prenatal-androgen effects on the auditory system. A parsimonious explanation for several outcomes is that prenatal exposure to high levels of andro...

Abstract The disintegration of the ice shelves along Antarctic Peninsula have spurred much discussion on various processes leading to their eventual dramatic collapse, but without a consensus an atmospheric forcing that could connect these processes. Here, using river detection algorithm with regional climate model and satellite observations, we show most intense rivers induce extremes in tempe...

We consider the problem of predicting plausible missing facts in relational data, given a set of imperfect logical rules. In particular, our aim is to provide bounds on the (expected) number of incorrect inferences that are made in this way. Since for classical inference it is in general impossible to bound this number in a non-trivial way, we consider two inference relations that weaken, but r...

We revisit the problem of detecting the termination of a distributed application in an asynchronous message-passing model with crash-recovery failures and failure detectors. We derive a suitable definition of termination detection in this model but show that this definition is impossible to implement unless you have a failure detector which can predict the future. We subsequently weaken the pro...

monozygotic twins are genetically identical individuals who can also be mirror image twins and the differences between them result from environmental factors. current study, monozygotic twins were analyzed in different dentitions of primary, mixed and permanent. as a conclusion, although genetic factors are naturally potent, environmental factors’ role can be increased and weaken the genetic fa...