... protein for fibrinogen to the NH2-terminal half (A–B3), for IgG to the central S domain, and for human serum albumin to the C-repeats (C1–C3) [31] None of these protein ligands was able to inhibit ... could be required for the binding to S pyogenes It has been known for many decades that M proteins are critical for the ability of S pyogenes to resist phagocytosis [51] and much effort has been ... remaining bound to the streptococcal surface could mediate binding to proteins involved in host defence Known relevant ligands for GAGs include growth factors, cytokines and other mediators of inflammation...
... Isotope Ratios in Atmosphere literature) ▲ △ Mean Ratios of Fly Ashes from Refuse Incineration (n = 7, measured) While the lead concentration in the atmosphere substantially fluctuates due to ... different meteorological conditions, the lead isotope ratios in the atmosphere remain almost constant, presumably because of the mixing and uniformatization of a large amount of waste containing ... Air Surveillance Network are almost identical to those of the study site in A City and dust from refuse incineration, implying that almost of the total amount of Cd in the atmosphere originates...
... requirements for carbon, carbon manganese and stainless steels BS 1217, Cast stone BS 1881, Methods of testing concrete BS 1881-102, Methodfor determination of slump BS 1881-114, Methods for determination ... Specification for clearance holes for metric bolts and screws BS 4360, Specification for weldable structural steels BS 4551, Methods of testing mortars, screeds and plasters BS 5080, Methods of test for ... The standard relates to the method of test only; it is not a performance standard It has to be stressed that any recommendations on the interpretation of the results of tests for the purposes of...
... training and adult learning together with our interactions with law enforcement actors in a number of jurisdictions, we came to believe that officers might be receptive to information regarding SAPs ... Department to suggest training officers about occupational safety, the law and SAPs The findings were also presented to Rhode Island's Attorney General, who agreed to the need for training to address ... health and law enforcement officials The trainings were coupled with programs for prevention, monitoring and response to law enforcementrelated problems, and were augmented by trainings for SAP clients...
... cursors to be positioned at the wear scar boundaries with an accuracy of micron 5.4 The HFRR and Scuffing Load Ball on Cylinder Lubricity Evaluator (SLBOCLE, Test Method D6078) are two methods forevaluating ... acetone for 9.1.4 Dry and store in desiccator NOTE 2—Drying operations can be accomplished using compressed air jet at 140 to 210 kPa-pressure 9.2 Test Balls, (as received)—The test balls are to ... replicate samples were not known to the operator A randomized test sequence was provided and each laboratory was requested to use the same operator and equipment for all 24 samples 15.1.1 The difference...
... Melting curve analysis was performed after amplification The reaction mixture was heated to 95 °C for sec, cooled to 50 °C for 15 sec, and then slowly heated back to 95 °C at a ramp rate of 0.2 ... PCR and the FISH methods respectively The protocol for the quantitative PCR method is as described in the previous section Template DNA extracted from activated sludge was diluted to 0.5 ng µL-1 ... quantitative PCR method The ranges of quantification results by the quantitative PCR method and FISH method in all samples were from 1.2×104 to 2.4×106 copies per reaction and from 0.9 to 31.5 % of...
... possible for assessors to consistently enumerate the total set of nuggets contained in an answer, which corresponds to the denominator in a precision calculation (Voorhees, 2003) Thus, a penalty for ... engage to marry? 147.2 FACTOID Who did the Prince marry? 147.3 FACTOID Where did they honeymoon? 147.4 FACTOID Where was Edward in line for the throne at the time of the wedding? 147.5 FACTOID ... method leverages multiple judgments to define a weight for each individual nugget, and then incorporates this weight into the F-score computation As an alternative, we propose another method for...
... e GetMaxtPath(A) / / G e t max path MaxPath[i] for di A is a set of arcs for i = to n begin MaxPath[i] +- NULL e n d for j = to n begin fori=j-ktojlbegin if (di, dj) E A t h e n if Length(MaxPath[j]) ... solution to the problem of information overloading In such a service, gatherer collects articles from Web sites and threader makes threads for them The results are stored in XML, and then pushed to ... kw, kw which is a differentia word for di p r o c e d u r e MakeDistanceMatrix for i= to n b e g i n if i - k < t h e n s + - e l s e s + - - i - k forj =stoi-lbegin a(i,j) +- sim(di,dj) j~-j+l...
... In addition, many EHC monographs have been devoted toevaluating toxicological methodology, e.g for genetic, neurotoxic, teratogenic, and nephrotoxic effects Other publications have been concerned ... (ii) (iii) (iv) to assess information on the relationship between exposure to environmental pollutants and human health, and to provide guidelines for setting exposure limits; to identify new ... EHC publications addressing methodologies for risk assessment in children include EHC 30, Principles forEvaluating Health Risks to Progeny Associated with Exposure to Chemicals during Pregnancy...
... class to the random variable pair Hypothesis testing for performance evaluation The formulation of the previous hypothesis test gives means forevaluating the whole classification chain performance ... will tend to capture specifically the information related to the common origin of A and V, discarding the unrelated interference information The interested reader is referred to [8] for more details ... requires to maximize the mutual information between the extracted features FA and FV In order to both decreases the lower bound on Pe and try to get as close as possible to this bound, a mutual information...
... 1.2 where L is a linear operator, N is a nonlinear operator, and g t is a given continuous function The basic character of the method is to construct a functional for the system, which reads t ... a coefficient condition for the above iteration to converge in the norm of L2 a, b , and to the solution of 1.4 Test Examples In this section we present some test examples to show that the stability ... to thank referees and area editor Professor Nan-jing Huang for giving useful comments and suggestions for the improvement of this paper This paper is dedicated to Professor Mehdi Dehghan References...
... vectorized system parameters [17] For a review of such techniques, see [18] Unfortunately, such methods are not easily extended to multichannel FIR filters, necessitating a novel approach to the ... coding example to show how the method might be used in such cases As for notation, all signals and coefficients are assumed to be real-valued, although extensions of the described methodto the complex-signal ... being locally stable to the constraint space as μ(k) → Although not easily proven, the reason for the poor performance of the original methodfor larger step sizes could be due to the delayed-gradient...
... functions form a Z-basis for Λn , so the eλ In this paper we describe a graph-theoretic methodfor finding a spanning set for a finite-dimensional vector space V from among a set of vectors X generated ... nothing to with directed graphs, but the graph method may be more suitable for proving full rank if there is no bound to the size of the matrices one is interested in and one has combinatorial information ... restrictions on any brute-force search for a solution using these methods The most promising approach to the Jacobian conjecture, from a combinatorial point of view, seems to be the homogeneous symmetric...
... coefficient (R) for interrater reliability is 0.90 for the total SCCT scale and ranges from 0.51 to 0.90 for individual items (Table 11) The calculation of means and standard deviations for each SCCT ... this method in schizophrenic patients This new scoring method aims to be reliable, valid and sensitive to change in response to treatment Methods Study sample The study sample included 93 healthy ... necessary to show whether this is the case and also it is necessary to apply the test to different patient population, especially to patients suffering from ‘organic’ brain disease, before and...
... The method that was used in this study to rank the presentations allows for this decision to be undertaken using a quantitative and objective tool, and it therefore maximizes accountability for ... considered by this tool as less important presentations Discussion In this study we have described both the tool and method used to determine the content for our critical care curriculum for Available ... are some limitations to this process Our method of scoring may not have been appropriate for some topics For example, end-of-life decision making, although very relevant to the critical care...
... has been successfully achieved for a simple tee-shaped hollow body network The method revealed to be very efficient to minimize the number of degrees of freedom, and to reduce CPU time and memory ... wish to thank Henkel Technologies, Christophe Chaut and Jean-Luc Wojtowicki for providing the experimental results Appendix A Determination of admittance matrix A.1 Simple two-port elements For ... T is equal to This yields the determinant of Q to be equal to À1 Finally, matrix Q is used in Eq (5) for obtaining admittance matrix Atp A.2 Complex two-port and multiport elements For multiport...
... non-uniformly distributed along the Pareto front (the front is biased for solutions for − which f1 (→) is near to one); and second, the x density of the solutions is lowest close to the Pareto front ... ideal point to centre of the hyperquadrant containing POFs) In this way, DM has more flexibility to express his preference Among several methods for taking set information, we propose to define reference ... Pareto front is formed with g(→) = x − The best local Pareto front is formed with g(→) = x 1.25 ZDT6: It includes two difficulties caused by the non-uniformity of the search space: rst, the Pareto...
... sending to the base station for decision making Although huge effort has been made to popularize the DLV method as a tool for structural damage interrogation, further research is still needed to (i) ... E HA CEME TS TO THE DAMAGE LOCATI G VECTOR METHODFOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MO ITORI G TRA VIET A H BEng, MEng (UCE, Viet Nam) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT ... main objective of this thesis is to develop the Damage Locating Vector (DLV) method further for structural damage detection by (a) extending its formulation to accommodate multi-stress state...
... transferred to an electron within the metal 105 While fast electrons are good tools for the study of the dispersion relation at very v large kx (~0.3 Å-1) as has been performed previously in order to ... launched into the top medium (i.e region 0), normally a glass semi-cylindrical prism, which has a high refractive index (normally a glass) to up the k x 106 to ω c ε sin θ o (where ε o > ) before impinging ... sufficiently large compared to, | ε1 | in the case of a Krestchman-Raether setup, or | ε | in the case of Otto setup, in order for θ o , sp to be a real value, i.e in order to have a realistic incident...
... Model Protein Fig ATIR device for Otto configuration (Top panel) Schematic drawing, (Bottom panel) Photograph Ref: (161) Fig Left photo: schematic diagram; Right photo: pattern on a Si mould 175 ... societies to people to organs to cells to biochemistry to chemistry and ultimately to physics …” Prof Steven Weinberg (Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1979) INTRODUCTION Protein layers are ubiquitous in ... you want them to; but these are not as important as perseverance The journey I have embarked on to reach where I am today, has taught me to persevere First and foremost, I would like to express...