The following lecture will consider mainly the simple random walk in 1-dimension. The SRW will satisfy us for now as it can be generalized with a few simple assumptions to various other random walks. Our main topics are the Wald identities along with the derivation of the moment generating function of the first passage time for 1-dimensional SRW and the SRW properties such as: the arcsine laws ...

OBJECTIVE The sound of running water (SRW) has been effectively used for toilet training during toddlerhood. However, the effect of SRW on voiding functions in adult males with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) has not been evaluated. To determine the effect of SRW on urination in male patients with LUTS, multiple voiding parameters of uroflowmetry with postvoid residual urine (PVR) were asse...

Evidence suggests that eosinophils contribute to inflammation in bronchial asthma by releasing chemical mediators and cytotoxic granule proteins. To investigate the mechanism of eosinophil degranulation in asthma, we established an in vitro model of allergen-induced degranulation. We treated tissue culture plates with short ragweed pollen (SRW) extract and sera from either normal donors or SRW-...

Microsomal protein recovery and hepatocellularity have been determined and investigated as scaling factors for interrelating clearance by hepatic microsomes, freshly isolated hepatocytes and whole liver from untreated (UT) rats and rats treated with either the cytochrome P450 inducer phenobarbital (PB) or dexamethasone (DEX). Hepatocellularity in UT rats (1.1 x 10(8) hepatocytes/g liver) was no...

Nematode chemosensory GPCRs in Caenorhabditis elegans (NemChRs) are classified into 19 gene families, and are initially thought to have split from the ancestral Rhodopsin family of GPCRs. However, earlier studies have shown that among all 19 NemChR gene families, only the srw family has a clear sequence relationship to the ancestral Rhodopsin GPCR family. Yet, the phylogenetic relationships bet...

Contact matrices provide a coarse grained description of the configurationω of a linear chain (polymer or random walk) on Z: Cij (ω) = 1 when the distance between the positions of the ith and j th steps are less than or equal to some distance a and Cij (ω) = 0 otherwise. We consider models in which polymers of length N have weights corresponding to simple and self-avoiding random walks, SRW and...

Whilst existing civil society studies generally fail to systematically examine the way that contextual factors shape women’s representation in the civil sphere, political science has predominantly focused on legislative settings. This article responds to the resultant knowledge-gap by examining the hitherto underexplored role of civil society as a political space integral to the substantive rep...

SRW/U (the Search/Retrieve Webservice) and OAI (Open Archives Initiative) are both modern information retrieval protocols developed by distinct groups from different backgrounds at around the same time. This article sets out to briefly contrast the two protocols' aims and approaches, and then to look at some novel ways in which they have been or may be usefully co-implemented. While using SRW a...

The presence of essential (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu, Ni and Al) and non-essential trace metals (Cd and Pb) was tested in liver (N=26) and kidney (N=42) from dead Southern Right Whale (SRW--Eubalaena australis) calves found beached in Península Valdés, Argentina. Essential metals were detected in all samples, particularly in hepatic tissue; though Ni and Al were accumulated mainly in the kidney. Cd and Pb...

PURPOSE The Shin-Nippon SRW-5000 is an open view autorefractor that superseded the Canon R-1 autorefractor in the mid-1990 s and has been used widely in optometry and vision science laboratories. It has been used to measure refractive error, accommodation responses both statically and dynamically, off-axis refractive error, and adapted to measure pupil size. This paper presents an overview of t...