We consider variational problems defined on domains ‘weakly’ connected through a separation hyperplane (‘sieve plane’) by an ε-periodically distributed ‘contact zone’. We study the asymptotic behaviour as ε tends to 0 of integral functionals in such domains in the nonlinear and vector-valued case, showing that the asymptotic memory of the sieve is described by a nonlinear ‘capacitarytype’ formu...

Bivariate interval censored data arises in many applications. However, both theoretical and computational investigations for this type of data are limited because of the complicated structure of bivariate censoring. In this paper, we propose a two-stage spline-based sieve estimator for the association between two event times with bivariate case 2 interval censored data. A smooth and explicit es...

This paper presents sieve inferences on possibly irregular (i.e., slower than root-n estimable) functionals of semi-nonparametric models with i.i.d. data. We provide a simple consistent variance estimator of the plug-in sieve M estimator of a possibly irregular functionals, which implies that the sieve t statistic is asymptotically standard normal. We show that, even for hypothesis testing of i...

We give a new proof of the arithmetic large sieve inequality based on an amplification argument, and use a similar method to prove a new sieve inequality for classical holomorphic cusp forms. A sample application of the latter is also given. 1. The classical large sieve The classical arithmetic large sieve inequality states that, for any real numbers N , Q > 1, any choice of subsets Ωp ⊂ Z/pZ f...

Visual cryptography encodes a secret image into n shares which are distributed to n participants. Pixel Sieve method was proposed recently to encode an image into shares, but the encryption quality is poor. In this paper an modified version of pixel sieve method is proposed to achieve more security than existing pixel sieve method. Based on key shifting scheme, the proposed method generates qui...

The presence of callose in sieve plates has been known for a long time, but how this polysaccharide plug is synthesized has remained unsolved. Two independent laboratories have recently reported the identification of callose synthase 7 (CalS7), also known as glucan synthase-like 7 (GSL7), as the enzyme responsible for callose deposition in sieve plates. Mutant plants defective in this enzyme fa...

Since the first ultrastructural investigations of sieve tubes in the early 1960s, their structure has been a matter of debate. Because sieve tube structure defines frictional interactions in the tube system, the presence of P protein obstructions shown in many transmission electron micrographs led to a discussion about the mode of phloem transport. At present, it is generally agreed that P prot...

A simple steady state iterative solution of Münch pressure-flow in unbranched sieve tubes containing only water and sucrose is derived. The iterative equations can be solved on a programmable desk calculator. Solutions are presented for steady state transport with specific mass transfer rates up to 1.5 x 10(-5) mole second(-1) centimeters(-2) (= 18.5 grams hour(-1) centimeters(-2)) over distanc...

Arrhenius plots of translocation velocity as a function of petiole temperature show a marked increase in temperature dependence below 10 C in bean (a chilling-sensitive species) but not in sugar beet (chilling-resistant). The increased temperature dependence below 10 C was not observed for cytoplasmic streaming or oxygen uptake in bean. Bean petioles were served to release pressure in order to ...

By using lactose colored with erythrocin, we examined the effect of particle size on mixing degree during the preparation of triturations with a mortar and pestle. We used powders with different distributions of particle sizes, i.e., powder that passed through 32-mesh but was trapped on a 42-mesh sieve (32/42-mesh powder), powder that passed through a 42-mesh sieve but was trapped on a 60-mesh ...