... force inthe thesis One ofthe major influence ofthe microscopic forces is the sticking between objects This affects the motion of picking up and releasing of tiny objects There are a lot of literature ... under the influence of van der Waals force It also examines the ability ofthecontrol laws in attenuating the effect of van der Waals force on the system Thecontrol laws covered includes both linear ... from the observation ofthe wetting of solids by liquids inthe early 1700s Inthe 1800s, many scientists were interested inthe behaviour of liquids, in particular, the phenomena of wetting and...
... subject ofthe remaining chapters of Part I Chapter The State ofthe Motor Control Industry Chapter The State ofthe Motor Control Industry The standard model for a DC motor is shown in Figure ... Chapter The State ofthe Motor Control Industry The industry has devised several interesting variations and refinements on the PID compensators in motor controllers The first piece ofthe motor controller ... mode controller while maintaining the smooth velocity and current profiles ofthe PI controller An important assumption made inthe design ofthe torque observer was that the inertia ofthe system...
... (C), inthepresenceof 100 lM MPP+ (D), inthepresenceof 200 lM MPP+ (E), inthepresenceof 100 lM MPTP and 50 lM dopamine (F), inthepresenceof 200 lM MPTP and 50 lM dopamine (G), inthepresence ... urea Effect of dopamine on MPTP and MPP+ induced changes in kinetics ofthe aggregation of a-synuclein a-Synuclein was incubated inthepresenceof 100 lm MPTP, along with 50 lm dopamine Aliquots ... results obtained when a-synuclein was incubated inthe absence of MPTP When a-synuclein was incubated alone inthepresenceof dopamine, it led to inhibition of fibrillation, probably by the accumulation...
... 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 ... turn out to be adjoint ofthe martingale operators • We show that uniqueness ofthe martingale measure is equivalent to the denseness ofthe image space ofthe hedging operators In particular, it...
... ofthe observed VpUcyt structure One ofthe most studied activities of VpU is the induction of CD4 degradation inthe endoplasmatic reticulum of infected CD4 + cells Only the cytoplasmic domain ... undetectable inthepresenceof Mn2+ The solvent-exposed C-terminus of VpUcyt probably pointed away from the surface ofthe micelle The three amide cross-peaks originating from the hydrophobic ... K, Hoffmann S, Bauer F, Friedrich U, Kardinal C, Feller SM, Biesinger B & Sticht H (2002) Structural investigation ofthe binding of a herpesviral protein to the SH3 domain of tyrosine kinase...
... 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 ... 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] and the changes ofthe kinetic parameters ... 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 ... absence of heparin (open circles) did not differ from that obtained inthepresenceof heparin (closed circles) This indicates that thepresenceof heparin did not in uence the k306 inthe partially ... transferred into new reaction tubes containing either heparin or buffer Monitoring of FVa activity in these two tubes was continued for another 25 min, during which time the loss of FVa activity in the...
... consistent with titration ofthe catalytic histidine, H438(440) The persistence of activity inthepresenceofthe protonated form ofthe catalytic histidine is inconsistent with the generally accepted ... form of BuChE, as indicated In each panel, the solid circles indicate the measured kcat values, the solid squares indicate the measured bkcat values, and the lines are the result of fitting the ... excess-substrate binding appears to involve the intricate interplay of a variety of residues inthe active site pH dependence of A328W Fig pH dependence for the turnover number (kcat) inthe absence of excess...
... 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 not ... 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 ... different In fact, the slope inthepresenceof sugar osmolytes is 10 times less than that inthepresenceof methylamines A higher slope inthe case of methylamines will mean that the total...
... growth ofthe WO3 nanowires With the addition of different inorganic salts, the compositions and the 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 and the growth ... morphologies ofthe final products were demonstrated in Fig 1a–c On the basis ofthe SEM check, the proportion ofthe nanowire morphology was estimated to be about 100% (Fig 1a) As shown inthe SEM...
... 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 ... correlated among these individuals at the margin of receiving treatment 34 We have also calculated Manski bounds on within-school externalities inthepresenceof selection into treatment, but these are...
... 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 ... Effect of p-amindinobenzamidine concentration on Km for autoactivation of trypsinogen by trypsin gives a straight line, indicating that p-amindinobenzamidine is a competitive inhibitor for the trypsinogen...
... 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 ... understanding of how humans make use of various forms of shared visual information in their everyday communication The development of an integrated multi-modal model of referring behavior can improve the...
... the parameter estimates obtained inthe absence ofthe inhibitors (see above) Inthe case of gallamine investigated inthepresenceof MeCN, the calculation ofthe kinetic parameters was based ... 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 ... AChEgallamine to hydrolyse ATCh is 1.7 25% of that of free AChE Inuence of MeCN on the inhibition of AChE The inhibition of AChE by tacrine, gallamine and compound was investigated inthepresence of...
... distinguish aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ from those formed inthepresenceof Zn2+ Taken together, these results suggest that Ab aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ or Zn2+ are less ... 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] ... the toxicity of Ab [21–25] Thein vivo effect of metals can be complex [26,27], and thepresenceof Cu2+, Zn2+ or Ca2+ significantly accelerates aggregation of Ab in vitro [19,28,29] The binding...
... softening depends on the melting of these crystallites, but can be changed by a chemical crosslinked network [5] The crosslinking influences on the softening point (Ts) ofthe PVC samples in comparing ... inthepresenceof phr of TMPTMA ofthe PVC crosslinked samples decreases with increasing concentration of TMPTMA up to 15 phr Therefore, in order to obtain PVC having the highest , 0.4 phr of ... improves the molecular mobility, melting and softening of PVC and a result, Ts decreases with increasing Table 1: Softening point ofthe PVC samples containing different concentrations of DAPC...