WHY DOES STRAWBERRY FRUIT WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION SHOW POSITIVE SKEWNESS? A SIMULATION MODEL REVEALS THE UNDERLYING PROCESSES OF FRUIT PRODUCTION

Why does strawberry fruit weight distribution show positive skewness? A simulation model reveals the underlying processes of fruit production

It is widely accepted that the weight distribution of plant fruits conforms to a standard normal distribution.However, some overlooked evidence suggests that some fruits, including strawberries, exhibit positive skewness in fruit weight distribution.This intriguing observation has received limited attention thus far.To shed light on this phenomenon

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Escape of HIV-1-infected dendritic cells from TRAIL-mediated NK cell cytotoxicity during NK-DC cross-talk--a pivotal role of HMGB1.

Early stages of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) infection are associated with local recruitment and activation of important effectors of innate immunity, i.e.natural killer (NK) cells and dendritic cells (DCs).Immature DCs (iDCs) capture HIV-1 through specific receptors and can disseminate the infection to lymphoid tissues following their mi

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An Improved Approach to the PageRank Problems

We introduce a partition of the web pages particularly suited to the PageRank problems in which the web weboost splitter link graph has a nested block structure.Based on the partition of the web pages, dangling nodes, common nodes, and general nodes, the hyperlink matrix can be reordered to be a more simple block structure.Then based on the paralle

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