... this point is a function ofthe destination index m Increasing the NSD while keeping NR constant is therefore in favor of protocol A1 If the number of relays increases, the relation between l and ... complex baseband, sample them, and store the samples until the end ofthe first phase Inthe second phase, they retransmit scaled and rotated version of their received samples to the destinations ... phase noise They differ inthe direction in which the single-hop links are measured and thus the required effort to estimate all channel coefficients inthe network We used the MSE ofthe channel...
... particularly motivated by the vaccine for seasonal in uenza (flu) epidemic and luxury goods In Chapter 2, we study thein uenza (flu) vaccine supply chain inthe USA Thein uenza vaccine inthe USA is produced ... main findings and discuss about the ideas for future research in Chapter 19 CHAPTER Consumption Externality and Yield Uncertainty intheIn uenza Vaccine Supply Chain: Interventions in Demand and ... vaccine to the market while individuals decide whether or not to get vaccinated in a rational and self-interested manner based on the availability ofthe vaccine, severity ofthe infection, and...
... bluff cylinder interaction, andthepresenceofthe downstream cylinder has little effect in altering the beat frequencies inthe combined wave current flow With an offset of 0.6 D inthe downstream ... understand the problem Temporal and spatial descriptions of flow field inthe vicinity and wake of two interacting cylinders have been systematically captured through the use of PIV and point measurements ... downstream cylinder location away from the centreline ofthe upstream cylinder location, thepresenceofthe downstream cylinder will enhance the asymmetric features ofthe wake flow velocities and temporal...
... Fundamentally, the flow interaction between the bluff column ofthe SPAR and one ofthe columns ofthe TAD can be represented by two interacting cylinders in waves and currents The upstream cylinder would ... while the downstream cylinder is a slender cylinder The area of interest is inthe flow characteristics around andinthe wake of a bluff upstream cylinder, where the focus is on thepresenceof ... currents on a cylinder When currents and waves coexist, thepresenceof one flow would interfere with the kinematics ofthe other To quantify the dominance of either currents or waves inthe wave current...
... Frame of Reference) Figure C1 PIV images of a single cylinder in combined waves and currents flow T = 0.7 s, C = 50 mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C2 PIV images of a single cylinder in ... mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C4 PIV images of a single cylinder in wave only flow T = 0.7 s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C5 PIV images of a single cylinder in currents only ... mm/s, at time increments of T/10 Figure C6 PIV images of a single cylinder in currents only flow C = 75 mm/s, at time increments of T/10 Figure C7 PIV images of a single cylinder in currents only...
... time intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H2 Iso surface plots of wave and currents run, C= 75 mm/s, T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ ... of run Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H3 Iso surface plots of wave and currents run, C=100mm/s, T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder ... surface plots of wave and currents run, C =50mm/s, T =0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (At Stable Beating Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H6 Iso surface plots of wave and currents...
... self-financing portfolio if and only if certain integral equations ofthe first kind (the “hedging equations”) have solutions Furthermore, the integral operators appearing in these equations (the “hedging ... apply part ofthe present theorem We now turn to the issue of so called “martingale modelling”, and remark that one ofthe main morals ofthe martingale approach to arbitragefree pricing of derivative ... that the existence of a martingale measure implies absence of arbitrage, and we end the section by investigating existence and uniqueness of martingale measures We make the following standing...
... respectively retained inthe centre ofthe interhelical linker and at the C-terminus of micelle-associated VpUcyt Position of VpUcyt relative to the micelle NMR signal intensities of individual VpUcyt ... chains ofthe Ser53 and Ser57 inthe interhelical linker, forming a highly conserved phosphorylation motif, are visualized in ball -and- stick format In contrast to the well-defined helices andthe ... loop, there was considerable fuzziness inthe interhelical linker region Likewise, the relative position of helix andthe tight loop was poorly defined according to the relatively high rmsd of the...
... resulted in a decrease, of up to two-fold, inthe kp of plasmin Considering the recently described reversible nature ofthe plasmin inhibition by oleic acid [3] andthe changes ofthe kinetic parameters ... identify the site of action ofthe fatty acids inthe plasmin molecule, the amidolytic activity of two truncated plasmin variants was examined (Fig 8) Miniplasmin (des-kringle 1-4 plasmin) contains the ... catalytic action of plasmin inthepresenceof stearate The p-nitroaniline (P) released inthe course of hydrolysis of 40 lM Spectrozyme-PL by 20 nM plasmin inthepresenceof 115 lM stearate is...
... activity ofthe reaction intermediate, FVaint This facilitated the determination of loss of FVa cofactor activity during the initial stage of inactivation and minimized thein uence ofthe k306 ... Arg306, inactivation of Fig Kinetic analysis ofthe inactivation of FVa by APC inthepresenceand absence of heparin Initial rates of FVa inactivation were determined at various concentrations of ... [40]) to optimize further the positioning ofthe molecules Results APC-catalyzed inactivation of FVa inthepresenceof heparin Heparin strongly in uenced the time course of FVa inactivation by wild-type...
... indicate the bands that are interacting with these probes All the lanes have labelled probes The adding of extracts and cold probe are indicated inthe top ofthe panel Supershift, ss-Sp1 and ss-Sp3, ... protein, possibly necessary for development of a normal fetus andin regulating immune responses within the intestine Induction of fgl2 in macrophages in response to viruses results inthe production ... further insight into the TF-independent coagulation pathway in diseased states We report here the structural and functional characterization ofthe 5¢-flanking region ofthe mouse fgl2 gene in...
... between the serine andthe leaving group; and then between the attacking water andthe serine In its role as a proton shuttle, the catalytic histidine formally accepts a proton from a donor and then ... form of BuChE, as indicated In each panel, the solid circles indicate the measured kcat values, the solid squares indicate the measured bkcat values, andthe lines are the result of fitting the ... both kcat and bkcat are consistent with titration ofthe catalytic histidine, H438(440) The persistence of activity inthepresenceofthe protonated form ofthe catalytic histidine is inconsistent...
... [21–25], and DGD° values inthepresenceof these osmolytes are given in Table However, DGD° values of RNase-A inthepresenceof alanine, serine, lysine, b-alanine, taurine and dimethylglycine have ... efficiency inthepresenceof this group of osmolytes Interestingly, there is a linear relationship between DDGD° and Dlog(kcat ⁄ Km) inthepresenceof methylamines and sugar However, the slopes ofthe ... have therefore measured the thermodynamic parameters of RNase-A inthepresenceof these amino acids and amino acid derivatives, and values of DGD°, measured in triplicate, are given in Table The...
... growth ofthe WO3 nanowires With the addition of different inorganic salts, the compositions andthe corresponding properties ofthe solution are different inthe hydrothermal conditions The changes ... need the anisotropy during the growth process for the nanoparticles In our experiments, thepresenceofthe salts is also an important factor influencing the crystallization process andthe growth ... changes inthe surrounding conditions would affect the crystalline phase, and further affect the morphologies and dimensions ofthe WO3 nanocrystals As the reaction mechanism and hydrothermal...
... These results are largely robust to including the proportion of Group pupils inthe surrounding area as the explanatory variable, rather than the total number of Group pupils inthe surrounding ... treatment in 1998 This was partly because of confusion inthe field about pupil age, and partly because inthe early stages ofthe program several ofthe Kenya Ministry of Health nurses administered ... charts, andthe training of teachers in each treatment school on worm prevention Health education stressed the importance of hand washing to avoid ingesting roundworm and whipworm larvae, wearing...
... of p-amindinobenzamidine Figure 2B shows time courses for trypsinogen autoactivation inthepresenceof 100 lM p-amindinobenzamidine As seen in this figure, thepresenceof p-amindinobenzamidine ... analyze the effects of acetamidine, p-amidinobenzamidine and benzamidine on the autoactivation of trypsinogen by trypsin Figure shows time courses of trypsinogen autoactivation inthepresenceof ... Km ¼ 20.64 lM, and a ¼ 0.021 to be on KS In order to study the inhibition mechanism of p-amindinobenzamidine for the autoactivation of trypsinogen, theactivation kinetics of trypsinogen were monitored...
... theoretical understanding of human referring behavior inthepresenceof shared visual information They suggest that shared visual information ofthe task objects and surrounding workspace can ... above, we examined the performance ofthe models using hand-processed evaluations ofthe PUZZLE CORPUS data The following presents the results ofthe three different models on 10 trials ofthe PUZZLE ... balance of linguistic and visual salience is needed in order to account for patterns of referring behavior Inthe remainder of this paper, we begin by presenting a brief discussion ofthe motivation...
... to the involvement of PAS inthe processes of AD, the use of PAS inhibitors and dual-site inhibitors of AChE allows for the inhibition ofthe catalytic activity ofthe enzyme and also lowers the ... for the inhibition of AChE by gallamine inthe absence of MeCN (B) Plot of int0 (int0)1) and int1 (int1)1) versus the reciprocal concentrations of gallamine Inhibition kinetics of acetylcholinesterase ... the parameter estimates obtained inthe absence ofthe inhibitors (see above) Inthe case of gallamine investigated inthepresenceof MeCN, the calculation ofthe kinetic parameters was based...
... (broken lines), either inthe form of aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ [(i) and (iii)] or Zn2+ [(ii) and (iv)], or as fibrils formed inthepresenceof EDTA [(v) and (vi)] The amount of amyloid ... Error bars indicate the experimental uncertainty ofthe measurements observed between the Cu2+-induced and Zn2+-induced aggregates, reflecting the differences in metal-binding properties of Ab [26,30,33–35] ... aggregates, indicating that both the type of bound metal andthe peptide sequence dictate the mode of peptide assembly Results and Discussion Ab aggregation inthepresenceof Cu2+ and Zn2+ Turbidity...