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Using Microsatellites to Assess Genetic Variation in a Selective Breeding Program of Chinese Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians)
This study aimed to improve our understanding of the genetics of the Chinese bay scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians), one of the most important maricultured shellfish in China. Ten polymorphic microsatellite loci were examined to assess the allelic diversity, heterozygosity, and genetic variation between two domesticated populations selected for fast growth in breeding programs, and their base population. Forty-one alleles were found throughout the loci and the mean number of alleles per locus ranged 3.30-3.50. The average heterozygosity ranged 0.38-0.45, whereas the polyamorphic information content ranged 0.1504-0.7518. Genetic differences between the three populations were detected based on the number of alleles per locus, effective number of alleles, Shannon index, inbreeding coefficient (Fis), p values, genetic distance, and pairwise Fst values. There was no significant loss of genetic variability in the breeding program but changes in gene frequencies were detectable over the populations, implying that thea loci were saffected by the pressures of selective culture
Conversion of K-Rb mixtures into stable molecules
We study the conversion of K and Rb atoms into stable molecules
through the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) in photoassociation
assisted with Feshbach resonance. Starting with the mean-field Langrange
density, we show that the atom-to-molecule conversion efficiency by STIRAP
aided by Feshbach resonance is much larger than that by bare Feshbach
resonance. We also study the influence of the population imbalance on the
atom-to-molecule conversion.Comment: Revtex, 5 pages, 3 figures; version to appear in PRA (some content
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ratios in relativistic heavy-ion collisions
We study ratios as a function of centrality (participant nucleon
number), transverse mass (), and rapidity, in heavy-ion collisions at beam
energies between 1A and 2A GeV. We use the relativistic transport model that
includes expicitly the strangeness degrees of freedom and consider two
scenarios for kaon properties in dense matter, one with and one without medium
modifications of their properties. In both scenarios, The ratio does
not change very much with the centrality, while the and
ratios increase with increasing centrality. Significant differences are
predicted, both in magnitudes and shapes, for the spectra and rapidity
distributions of ratio. Experimental measurement of these ratios,
currently under investigation by the FOPI, KaoS, E866, and E895 collaborations,
will be useful in revealing the kaon in-medium properties.Comment: RevTex, 10 pages, including 17 postscript figures, submitted to Phys.
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Dutch agricultural development and its importance to China : case study: agriculture in Chongming - an overview
Setting Standards for Fair Information Practice in the U.S. Private Sector
The confluence of plans for an Information Superhighway, actual industry self-regulatory practices, and international pressure dictate renewed consideration of standard setting for fair information practices in the U.S. private sector. The legal rules, industry norms, and business practices that regulate the treatment of personal information in the United States are organized in a wide and dispersed manner. This Article analyzes how these standards are established in the U.S. private sector. Part I argues that the U.S. standards derive from the influence of American political philosophy on legal rule making and a preference for dispersed sources of information standards. Part II examines the aggregation of legal rules, industry norms, and business practice from these various decentralized sources. Part III ties the deficiencies back to the underlying U.S. philosophy and argues that the adherence to targeted standards has frustrated the very purposes of the narrow, ad hoc regulatory approach to setting private sector standards. Part IV addresses the irony that European pressure should force the United States to revisit the setting of standards for the private sector
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