... metallic ions in water, as the quantity of absorbent (PTW) increases, the active sites of the absorbent increases, which results in more metallic ions absorbed and less ions remain in water in ... oxide and potassium oxide It is fabricated by mixing titanium oxides and potassium oxides in a certain ratio, with a suitable calcination flux, and calcining at 900 – 1100°C The reaction during ... showed in Fig It can be seen that the absorption of Pb2+ and Cd2+ on PTW increases with time The absorption capacity of PTW increases quickly in the beginning and slows down gradually, and reaches...
... DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -VOLUME Advanced scientific computing in BASIC with applicationsin chemistry, biology and pharmacology DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ... PRonSsING Classical mthods Interpolation Smmthing Differentiation Integratim Spline functions in signal prccessing Interpolating splines Smmthing splines Fourier transform spectral methods Continuous ... coefficients and interpolated valws Local cubic interpolation 5-pint cubic smoothing by Savitzky and Golay Determination of interpolating cubic spline Function value, derivatives and definite integral...
... exploiting non-linear effects of laser light to pro vide advantages such as thinner optical sectioning, non-damaging low-energy excitation, and imaging with intrinsic molecular contrast While non-linear ... microscopy, to in vestigate pheonmena that can have wide ranging consequences for studying the processes of clotting, inflammation, wound healing, and angiogenesis Finally in Chapter 11, a thorough introduction ... rapidly growing method in ophthalmology for in vivo examination of the eye, and an emerging modality in the areas of dentistry, endoscopy, andin the food sciences Also, it is certain that the...
... finger posture" summarizes the authors' recent work toward developing ways to record fine motor control tasks involving manipulation of objects requiring fine motor control of the hand and fingers ... years They range from simple monitoring of daily activities, for the purpose of assessing mobility and level of independence in individuals, to integrating miniature sensors to enhance the function ... and implement an effective clinical intervention Unobtrusive, wearable systems providing ease of data gathering and some processing capabilities are essential to achieve the objective of making...
... guitar tones using a combination of physical modelling and warped linear predictive coding is outlined in Section Section analyzes the results from simulated coding scenarios using the recorded ... sequencing program using only virtual instruments and software effects, the file size (including simple instrument and effect model algorithms) is on the order of 500 kB For WLP in Physical Modelling ... of Design) In 2002, he received his Master’s of Design from KID and is currently a doctoral candidate there His interests include sound, music signal processing, instrument modelling, and electronic...
... Advances in Wavelet Theory and Their Applicationsin Engineering, Physics and Technology (a) (b) Fig The original license plate candidate image is shown in (a) and prominent edges in the LP candidate ... divided into four parts These are input image normalization, edges enhancement using filters, edges finding and linking to rectangles using connected component analysis (CCA) and plate candidate finding ... image (a) and image (b) shows prominent edges (a) (b) Fig The original license plate candidate image is shown in (a) and prominent edges in the LP candidate are shown in (b) using single level...
... fingerprints only for improving the fingerprint retrieval efficiency 2.2 Exclusive fingerprint classification Exclusive fingerprint classification groups fingerprint images into some predefined ... patterns, mouse movements, and online behaviors Detailed examples and intriguing descriptions of biometric data-mining and its implications are presented in this chapter Continuing in the theme of privacy ... fingerprint configuration, as less than 5% of all fingerprints is arches Plain Arch is defined as a type of fingerprint in which ridges enter one side and 26 Biometrics - Unique and Diverse Applications...
... Biosciences), which absorb and emit in higher wavelength light (ex/em, 774/789 nm), and investigated their applicability in cell labeling andin vivo imaging Results and discussions Preparation ... biodistribution is independent of the routes of administration, such as intravenous injection [13-15,18,53,75,78,79], intraperitoneal injection [26], intratracheally instillation [77], and inhalation ... Nanjing, Nanjing University (Nanjing, China) The streptavidinIRDye 800CW was purchased from Li-Cor Biosciences (Lincoln, NE, USA) The main chemicals, including EDC, HEPES, glutaraldehyde and...
... finger posture" summarizes the authors' recent work toward developing ways to record fine motor control tasks involving manipulation of objects requiring fine motor control of the hand and fingers ... years They range from simple monitoring of daily activities, for the purpose of assessing mobility and level of independence in individuals, to integrating miniature sensors to enhance the function ... and implement an effective clinical intervention Unobtrusive, wearable systems providing ease of data gathering and some processing capabilities are essential to achieve the objective of making...
... Distance and URLs in Pre-, During-, and Post-event Window (Hashtag Level) 133 4.3 Interaction Plot on Distance and URLs in Pre-, During-, and Post-event Window (Dyad ... maintaining diversity (91% inter-list diversity) in the recommendation list in a scalable fashion The second essay examines information propagation using the retweet feature on Twitter where information ... are spent for advertising products, political campaigning, and marketing in these social media Particularly, in product advertising and campaigning through social media, brands or companies seek...
... the cell-containing cartridges and BAKs in clinical trials These issues will be discussed in more details in the following section 1.2 Development of BAKs andapplications of HPTC in such devices ... by immunostaining 58 Figure 5: Double-immunostaining of E-CAD and N-CAD 59 Figure 6: (A) GGT and LAP activity in isolated and commercial HPTC (B) AP activity in isolated and commercial ... might interact with other cells in the renal cortex in producing or responding to costimulatory cytokines, i.e tumour necrosis factor alpha(35) In addition, PTC produce interleukin-6 in response...
... brain anatomy and introduces some background information related to brain imaging and imaging analysis that shall be used in the rest of the thesis We also present a review of related work in ... MM-LDDMM registration into the average template generation in Chapter andin the resting state functional MRI analysis in Chapter and Finally, in Chapter 8, we list our conclusions and recommendations ... state fMRI in both children and adults, linked to internal mental brain activities (36, 37, 38, 39) Resting state fMRI has now becoming an important tool for understanding the brain functional...
... dividing tool to divide the input space into inlier and outlier sub-spaces and to use dedicated classifiers to handle the inliers and outliers in the corresponding spaces before non-linearly combining ... (Random () ≡ 1) BEGIN LOOP until h (new training pattern x) ≠ y (x)) BEGIN Get a new training pattern x END END ELSE BEGIN LOOP until h (new training pattern x) ≡ y (x)) BEGIN Get a new training ... training samples for training the individual weak learner h2 I3 is used to denote the number of training patterns in the input space X needed to generate the I1 training samples for training...
... solutes in aqueous solutions, including heavy metal ions (Guibal, 2004; Miretzky and Fernandez Cirelli, 2009) and dyes (Crini, 2006; Crini and Badot, 2008) In addition, CS is non-toxic, and biocompatible ... Template leaching Organic and inorganic materials: polymer and glass Phase inversion Organic: polymers Coating membrane) (composite Coat a thin toplayer on porous membranes from all kinds of materials ... as pore structure and mechanical strength, and to examine the mechanism involved in the preparation Meanwhile, the influence of some spinning factors such as dope compositions and the types/composition...
... University of Singapore for the award of research scholarship and Institute of Chemical and Engineering Science Ltd for the financial support to carry out the research work reported herein Finally, ... Teck-Chia, Ms Poon Yin-Fun and Dr Zhang Wei-Guang for their support and useful discussions; Dr Liu Shou-Ping, Mr Zou Yong, Mr Zhang Sheng, Xia Hai-Bing and Cheng Da-Ming for their advices and friendship ... 62 3 Influence of side chain length of the alkylimidazolium substituents on the enantioseparation ability of single-isomer imidazolium-β-CDs in CE 62 3 Determination of binding constants...
... entering (in whole or in part) the cavity and forming noncovalent host-guest inclusion complexes Almost all applications of CDs involve complexation The mechanism of inclusion complexation in CE ... recognition is obtained mainly by charge-charge interactions, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic inclusion and π-π interactions These interactions can be either attractive or repulsive Proteins also have ... of both anions and cations in one single run, using CZE in moving boundary electrophoresis In moving boundary electrophoresis, the separation system is filled with a so-called leading electrolyte...
... Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering for their kind attention and advice in my study and research I am also grateful to Fengling, Tang Yong, Yanni, Priya, Peichin, Gao Fei, Shubin, He Bin, ... Management (TQM), and satisfaction in business (Fisk et al., 1993) In today’s changing global environment, many educational institutions are also facing intensifying competition In order to achieve ... Background and Motivation It is common knowledge that improvement in our standard of living is highly dependent on better quality in the service sector Services are taking on increasing importance in...
... Phenylalanine G Gly Glycine H His Histidine I Ile Isoleucine K Lys Lysine L Leu Leucine M Met Methionine N Asn Asparagine P Pro Proline Q Gln Glutamine R Arg Arginine S Ser Serine T Thr Threonine V ... fluorophore and induces a marked increase in fluorescence Using a similar strategy, Imperiali and coworkers incorporated a chelation-sensitive sulfamido-oxine (Sox) unnatural amino acid into a kinase ... monitoring of enzyme kinetics and for visual tracking of enzymatic activity The proven utility of these assays has driven active research in designing and/ or modifying fluorescent proteins, inorganic...
... b-hexosaminidase content in SG+ ⁄ + cells at day 33 is set as 100% Results are expressed as means of triplicate determinations ± SD detected in SG– ⁄ – cells, indicating that pro-CPA processing into ... lack of SG also results in defective cathepsin E storage and that this, in turn, results in defective pro-CPA processing, leading to an accumulation of pro-CPA Next, we investigated the possibility ... and protein analysis (A) Total RNA was prepared from serglycin (SG)+ ⁄ + and SG– ⁄ – bone marrow-derived cells after different durations (days 0–33) of culture in medium containing interleukin...
... dotted line: same conditions as in Fig 1a (i.e., with cooling and without stirring) but the 10-fold diluted EL Dashed line: RT, no stirring Continuous line: RT, stirring Thick line: cooling, no ... was maintained in all the anodizations and for all the process time period, a linear relationship between J and h was expected [5, 22] However, after the initial increase in h with increasing J ... by hand brushing ([10 s) with acetone-wet lens paper, sonicating in warm (60 °C) acetone, rinsing in de-ionized (DI) water, sonicating another in warm (60 °C) ethanol, and thoroughly washing...