The Plant Cell, Vol. 6, No. 12 (Dec., 1994), pp. 1877-1887 (11 pages) The homeobox of the knotted1 (kn1) gene was used to isolate 12 related sequences in maize. The homeodomains encoded by the ...
A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...
Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Mar., 2007), pp. 71-81 (11 pages) In this paper we study two distributions, namely the distribution of the waiting times until given numbers of ...