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Comparative Genomics of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis Reveals a Strict Monophyletic Bifidobacterial Taxon (2013)

Strains of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis are extensively exploited by the food industry as health-promoting bacteria, although the genetic variability of members belonging to this taxon has so far not received much scientific attention. In this article, we describe the complete genetic makeup of the B. animalis subsp. lactis Bl12 genome and discuss the genetic relatedness of this strain with other sequenced strains belonging to this taxon. Moreover, a detailed comparative genomic analysis of B. animalis subsp. lactis genomes was performed, which revealed a closely related and isogenic nature of all currently available B. animalis subsp. lactis strains, thus strongly suggesting a closed pan-genome structure of this bacterial group.
A Waveguide Slot Array antenna design for X-band radar (2016)

In this paper, it is aimed to design and optimize a Waveguide Slotted Array (WSA) antennas for X-band radar applications. The slot offsets, slot lengths and widths, port position of the antenna are optimized by using Trust Region Framework and Classic Powel algorithms in simulation environment without requiring analytical calculations. The side lobes of radiation pattern are suppressed by using these optimizations. The antennas are simulated with different slot's numbers (11 and 21 slotted antennas). Although using more slots provides narrower beam, back lobe of the radiation pattern rises crucial levels. A parabolic structure is designed to avoid from back lobes and a small gain increment can be obtained with this modification. The modified 21-slotted WSA antenna presents 20.8 dB maximum realized gain, 4.50 degree 3 dB angular width, 90 degree main lobe direction, and 24.9 dB side lobe level in simulation results at 9.5 GHz. The antenna is also fabricated and measured. A good agreement is obtained between simulation and measurement.
Objective methods for studying cookability of tur pulse (Cajanus cajan) and factors affecting varietal differences in cooking. (1978)

The (i) cooking time, (ii) water uptake, (iii) dispersed solids into cooking water and (iv) contents of minerals, (v) protein and (vi) PCMP [ (a) Pectin (Ca+1/2 Mg)/Phytin or (b) Pectin + (Ca+1/2 Mg)-Phytin] numbers were determined for 10 var. of pure bred pearled tur (Cajanus cajan). The hydration and the dispersed solids during progressive cooking (0-80 min) of 4 var. of polished (15%) and unpolished tur were also determined. Variations observed in the values (range) for (i) 32-68 min; (ii) 0.52-1.50 g/g; (iii) 47.8-82.4%; (v) 18.5-22.0%; and (vi) (a) 0.81-3.60 and (vi) (b) 3.42-7.10. High correlation was observed between (i) and the Ca, Mg, pectin, phytin and (vi) (a) and (b). Dispersed solids % and hydration were always higher for polished grains than for whole grains.
De uitdaging groeit: omgaan met extreme neerslagen en klimaatverandering (2013)

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Practicing Business for Sport Success: A Few Examples (1988)

Applications of business related principles, concepts and practices are briefly illustrated. Examples used include Minnesota Twins baseball, the Capital Centre near Washington, D.C., Nebraska Cornhusker football, team sports in Columbia, Missouri public recreation, and water and land sports in Florida. The use of business principles is predicted to increase in sports and leisure settings.
Measurements of the Volume Scattering Function and the Degree of Linear Polarization of Light Scattered by Contrasting Natural Assemblages of Marine Particles (2018)

The light scattering properties of seawater play important roles in radiative transfer in the ocean and optically-based methods for characterizing marine suspended particles from in situ and remote sensing measurements. The recently commercialized LISST-VSF instrument is capable of providing in situ or laboratory measurements of the volume scattering function, β p ( ψ ) , and the degree of linear polarization, DoLP p ( ψ ) , associated with particle scattering. These optical quantities of natural particle assemblages have not been measured routinely in past studies. To fully realize the potential of LISST-VSF measurements, we evaluated instrument performance, and developed calibration correction functions from laboratory measurements and Mie scattering calculations for standard polystyrene beads suspended in water. The correction functions were validated with independent measurements. The improved LISST-VSF protocol was applied to measurements of β p ( ψ ) and DoLP p ( ψ ) taken on 17 natural seawater samples from coastal and offshore marine environments characterized by contrasting assemblages of suspended particles. Both β p ( ψ ) and DoLP p ( ψ ) exhibited significant variations related to a broad range of composition and size distribution of particulate assemblages. For example, negative relational trends were observed between the particulate backscattering ratio derived from β p ( ψ ) and increasing proportions of organic particles or phytoplankton in the particulate assemblage. Our results also suggest a potential trend between the maximum values of DoLP p ( ψ ) and particle size metrics, such that a decrease in the maximum DoLP p ( ψ ) tends to be associated with particulate assemblages exhibiting a higher proportion of large-sized particles. Such results have the potential to advance optically-based applications that rely on an understanding of relationships between light scattering and particle properties of natural particulate assemblages.
<i>Zanthoxylum Armatum</i> DC: Past, Present and Future Prospective (2017)

The Indian Himalayan region is rich in biodiversity among which one of the important genus Zanthoxylum armatum DC belongs to family Rutaceae possess high medicinal, economical as well as ecological important. A large genus of aromatic, prickly, dioecious or, rarely monoecious tree or shrubs, mainly pantropical, through also distributed in the subtropics. About 91 compounds has been isolated from the essential oil of fruit by GC and GC/MS analysis which included linalool (62.2%), limonene (12.6%) and methyl cinnamate (8.8%). The minor compounds such as citronellal and citronellol were also detected and found responsible for characteristic odour of the oil. In traditional health system, plant is valuable because of its stomachic, carminative, antioxidative, anti inflammatory, antimicrobial, insecticidal, larvicidal and antihelminthic properties. Its younger twigs are used as tooth brush and the fruits are also used as flavoring agent and spices in traditional dishes preparation. The bark is utilized as traditional dye yielding resource. Besides having economic importance, Plant has high demand causing a serious deletion of natural population. Therefore, there is urgent need for its conservation and focus may also be given to carry out research to prove its promising uses.
Poster session at the International Centre for Diffraction Data (2002)

A poster session was held during the Annual Spring Meeting of the International Centre for Diffraction Data on 20 March 2002. Abstracts of the posters are reproduced in the following. The underlined authors can be contacted for more information.
Mitochondrial dysfunction observed in situ in cardiomyocytes of rats in experimental diabetes (1992)

Insulin deficiency at early stages causes defects of mitochondrial function detectable in situ in cardiomyocytes. This suggests the possibility that such alterations are causative factors in the development of diabetic cardiomyopathy.
Structures and electronic properties of aluminum nanowires (2003)

We report first-principle electronic-state calculations for aluminum (Al) nanowires, which receive much attention as a new device material. First-principle calculations of the periodic boundary nanowire models have been carried out by means of supercell approximation techniques with density functional theory. The stable structures of Al nanowires have been investigated by geometry optimization of model structures of various types. For each stable structure, we have discussed the properties of nanowire in detail, such as radius of wire, interatomic distances, and stability for deformation. Furthermore, the growth and the reconstruction of nanowire by adsoprtion of Al atom have been simulated. We have also discussed the electronic processes and the driving forces in the growing process of Al nanowire, in terms of the quantum mechanical energy densities based on the regional density functional theory [Tachibana, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 3497 (2001)]. They have disclosed the driving force of the stability in electronic processes and give new images of microscopic electronic stresses.
Engineering stable topography in dense bio-mimetic 3D collagen scaffolds (2012)

Topographic features are well known to influence cell behaviour and can provide a powerful tool for engineering complex, functional tissues. This study aimed to investigate the mechanisms of formation of a stable micro-topography on plastic compressed (PC) collagen gels. The uni-directional fluid flow that accompanies PC of collagen gels creates a fluid leaving surface (FLS) and a non-fluid leaving surface (non-FLS). Here we tested the hypothesis that the resulting anisotropy in collagen density and stiffness between FLS and non-FLS would influence the fidelity and stability of micro-grooves patterned on these surfaces. A pattern template of parallel-aligned glass fibres was introduced to the FLS or non-FLS either at the start of the compression or halfway through, when a dense FLS had already formed. Results showed that both early and late patterning of the FLS generated grooves that had depth (25 ±7 µm and 19 ±8 µm, respectively) and width (55 ±11 µm and 50 ±12 µm, respectively) which matched the glass fibre diameter (50 µm). In contrast, early and late patterning of the non-FLS gave much wider (151 ±50 µm and 89 ±14 µm, respectively) and shallower (10 ±2.7 µm and 13 ±3.5 µm, respectively) grooves than expected. The depth to width ratio of the grooves generated on the FLS remained unaltered under static culture conditions over 2 weeks, indicating that grooves were stable under long term active cell-mediated matrix remodelling. These results indicate that the FLS, characterised by a higher matrix collagen density and stiffness than the non-FLS, provides the most favourable mechanical surface for precise engineering of a stable micro-topography in 3D collagen hydrogel scaffolds.
Lanthanide Complexes for Luminescence Imaging Applications (2005)

In this article, imaging applications of luminescent complexes and recent advances in the design and photophysical behaviour of near‐IR responsive complexes are reviewed. Various properties of the luminescent lanthanide complexes are also discussed in detail.
Site identification in high-throughput RNA–protein interaction data (2012)

Supplementary data available at Bioinformatics online.
SketchyGAN: Towards Diverse and Realistic Sketch to Image Synthesis (2018)

Synthesizing realistic images from human drawn sketches is a challenging problem in computer graphics and vision. Existing approaches either need exact edge maps, or rely on retrieval of existing photographs. In this work, we propose a novel Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) approach that synthesizes plausible images from 50 categories including motorcycles, horses and couches. We demonstrate a data augmentation technique for sketches which is fully automatic, and we show that the augmented data is helpful to our task. We introduce a new network building block suitable for both the generator and discriminator which improves the information flow by injecting the input image at multiple scales. Compared to state-of-the-art image translation methods, our approach generates more realistic images and achieves significantly higher Inception Scores.
Joint Resource Allocation and User Association for Heterogeneous Services in Multi-Access Edge Computing Networks (2019)

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a promising technique for low-latency services, in light of its proximity to users and embedded cloud computing capability. In order to improve the network efficiency and fairness, it is crucial and challenging to jointly optimize resource management and user association mechanism with the consideration of heterogeneous services and network conditions. Moreover, the existing studies always neglect the heterogeneities of services on the requirements of both computation capability and storage capability. To solve this issue, we derive a strategy to improve the overall delay-aware performance of heterogeneous services with the MEC capability of computation and storage and the choices of the users' association. Accordingly, a coalition-game-based algorithm is proposed to form user coalitions for association scheme and resource sharing policy. In particular, we mathematically present that the proposed algorithm is capable of convergence and optimality. The simulation results also show that our algorithm gets a good performance efficiently. Furthermore, it reduces the weighted sum of delays of users by average 27.8% and 82.1%, while continuously improving delay-aware fairness, compared with those of the priority-based assignment scheme and the nearest assignment scheme, respectively.
Low Molecular Weight Heparin in the Catheterization Laboratory (2009)

This chapter contains sections titled: Structure and mechanisms of action Pharmacokinetics and metabolism Dosing Monitoring Side effects Clinical evidence and current recommendations for use Summary References
Photonic Shape Memory Polymer with Stable Multiple Colors (2017)

A photonic shape memory polymer film that shows large color response (∼155 nm) in a wide temperature range has been fabricated from a semi-interpenetrating network of a cholesteric polymer and poly(benzyl acrylate). The large color response is achieved by mechanical embossing of the photonic film above its broad glass transition temperature. The embossed film, as it recovers to its original shape on heating through the broad thermal transition, exhibits multiple structural colors ranging from blue to orange. The relaxation behavior of the embossed film can be fully described using a Kelvin-Voigt model, which reveals that the influence of temperature on the generation of colors is much stronger than that of time, thereby producing stable multiple colors.
Synthesis of Glycol Nucleic Acids (2006)

Starting from glycidol, the synthesis of dimethoxytrityl­ated glycol nucleoside phosphoramidites of adenine (A), thymine (T), uracil (U), guanine (G), and cytosine (C) is reported. These phosphoramidites are the building blocks for the automated solid phase synthesis of glycol nucleic acids (GNA) oligonucleotides and it is demonstrated that derived GNA duplexes with completely acyclic backbones considerably exceed the thermal stabilities of analogous DNA duplexes.
An ultrasound beamformer using oversampling (2002)

Oversampled analog to digital converters (delta-sigma A/Ds) have been proposed to radically reduce the size, cost and power consumption of digital ultrasound beamformers. Simply replacing conventional A/Ds with single bit oversampled versions, however, produces significant image artifacts for a dynamic focus system. In addition, spectral Doppler measurements are severely compromised. Here, the authors disclose a complete beamformer exploiting oversampling principles on both transmit and receive that doesn't suffer from these problems. The architecture preserves the simplicity of an oversampled design, yet produces high quality B-scan and color flow images, as well as sensitive spectral Doppler measurements. Here, the authors present simulations and emulations using actual array data, to demonstrate the capabilities of the system.
Cost model development using artificial neural networks (2001)

In order for the aerospace industry to achieve success in export markets through the provision of high levels of product choice, it will need to develop and economically use many new materials and manufacturing processes. Examines how the constraints imposed by changing market trends affect the identification of “cost estimating relationships” and investigates their relative benefits and limitations in terms of their effects on the overall cost model development process. A method of establishing cost estimating relationships that appears to offer benefits to the cost modelling process is that of artificial neural networks (ANNs). Using the Taguchi method, a series of experiments have been undertaken to select an appropriate network for the “turning process”. The estimation accuracy and robustness of cost models developed using suitable ANN structures have then been examined under varying conditions in order to identify guidelines.
A method for dynamic simulation and detection of air-gap eccentricity in induction machines (2002)

In this paper a method is proposed which enables the detection of the air-gap eccentricity in induction machines at an early stage. It is shown that by proper modeling of the induction motor it is possible to detect the effect of eccentricity on the machine line currents, whether the machine is running off a sinusoidal supply or a converter. The effect of eccentricity on the machine current signature is discussed. Theoretical foundations of the technique, as well as the detailed differential equations describing the machine performance under rotor eccentricity are presented.
<title>Adaptive digital beamforming (ADBF) architecture for wideband phased-array radars</title> (1999)

The practical application of adaptive digital beamforming (ADBF) to phased array radar systems has been demonstrated by several systems, most notably MESAR. However, MESAR and the other fielded radar systems employing ADBF are limited to narrow bandwidth operation. The next generation of defense radar systems currently under development are considering ADBF architecture, but with wideband waveforms. New radar system architectures are mandated by the requirement for simultaneously accomplishing wide bandwidth and ADBF, particularly for the precision measurement and tracking environment of ballistic missile defense. This paper describes approaches to developing wideband architectures suitable for this and similar applications.
In Search of Community: Faculty Assessment of Its Presence at Three Institutions (1997)

Boyer (Carnegie Foundation, 1990) defined six broad ideals that define a supportive college community, which can be described as purposeful, open, just, disciplined, caring, and celebrative. The authors surveyed faculty at three different institutions a community college, a public university, and a private college to determine the extent to which a sense of community existed at each institution based upon the aspects of community characterized by Boyer. The respondents at all three institutions documented a substantial sense of community, with statistically significant differences found among faculty for the community ideals of being purposeful, open, disciplined, caring, and celebrative: Faculty at the community college reported higher levels of these elements of community than those at the university, whereas those at the private college reported the highest levels.
Coherent Spin Manipulation in Molecular Semiconductors: Getting a Handle on Organic Spintronics (2010)

Organic semiconductors offer expansive grounds to explore fundamental questions of spin physics in condensed matter systems. With the emergence of organic spintronics and renewed interest in magnetoresistive effects, which exploit the electron spin degree of freedom to encode and transmit information, there is much need to illuminate the underlying properties of spins in molecular electronic materials. For example, one may wish to identify over what length of time a spin maintains its orientation with respect to an external reference field. In addition, it is crucial to understand how adjacent spins arising, for example, in electrostatically coupled charge-carrier pairs, interact with each other. A periodic perturbation of the field may cause the spins to precess or oscillate, akin to a spinning top experiencing a torque. The quantum mechanical characteristic of the spin is then defined as the coherence time, the time over which an oscillating spin, or spin pair, maintains a fixed phase with respect to the driving field. Electron spins in organic semiconductors provide a remarkable route to performing "hands-on" quantum mechanics since permutation symmetries are controlled directly. Herein, we review some of the recent advances in organic spintronics and organic magnetoresistance, and offer an introductory description of the concept of pulsed, electrically detected magnetic resonance as a technique to manipulate and thus characterize the fundamental properties of electron spins. Spin-dependent dissociation and recombination allow the observation of coherent spin motion in a working device, such as an organic light-emitting diode. Remarkably, it is possible to distinguish between electron and hole spin resonances. The ubiquitous presence of hydrogen nuclei gives rise to strong hyperfine interactions, which appear to provide the basis for many of the magnetoresistive effects observed in these materials. Since hyperfine coupling causes quantum spin beating in electron-hole pairs, an extraordinarily sensitive probe for hyperfine fields in such pairs is given.
Systemic plus local metronidazole and cephazolin in complicated appendicitis: a prospective controlled trial. (1989)

Appendicectomy was performed on 100 patients with complicated appendicitis through a grid-iron incision. All patients received systemic metronidazole and cephazolin sodium which started preoperatively and continued postoperatively for 5 days. At operation, patients were allocated randomly to receive either local instillation of metronidazole and cephazolin intraperitoneally and interparietally (group A) or no local antibiotic therapy (group B). All wounds were closed primarily without drainage. Postoperative wound sepsis occurred in four (8%) of the 50 patients in group A and in 17 (34%) of the 50 patients in group B. One patient in group B developed pelvic abscess in addition to wound sepsis. The mean duration of postoperative hospital stay was 6.6 days (s.d. 2.98) in group A and 8.7 days (s.d. 5.55) in group B. These differences were statistically significant. No adverse reaction was noted. The conclusion of this study is that a single peroperative instillation of metronidazole and cephazolin into the peritoneum and wound layers is a safe and valuable adjunct to the perioperative systemic administration of these drugs in significantly reducing postoperative sepsis and duration of hospital stay in complicated appendicitis.
1.3-µm distributed feedback laser diode with a grating accurately controlled by a new fabrication technique (1989)

InGaAsP/InP distributed feedback laser diodes (DFB LDs) and distributed Bragg reflector laser diodes (DBR LDs) have been extensively developed as a single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) light source for long-haul high-bit-rate optical fiber communication systems. Control of a coupling constant κL in these laser diodes is very important. κL determines the characteristics of laser diodes, such as threshold current, slope efficiency, and sidemode suppression ratio. But it is very difficult to control κL by a conventional method, namely. holographic photolithography and chemical etching, because the height of the corrugation which determines κL is several hundred angstroms and varies easily with exposure and etching conditions. Here we demonstrate a novel method for accurate control of κL by a metallo-organic chemical vapor deposition (MO CVD) technique1 and a new structure.