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Use of Naturally Growing Aquatic Plants for Wastewater Purification (2004)

This paper examines potential uses of naturally growing aquatic plants for wastewater purification. These plants enhance the removal of pollutants by consuming part of them in the form of plant nutrients. This applies to urban and agricultural wastewater, in particular, where treatment units of different sizes can be applied at the pollution source. The effectiveness of wastewater purification by different plants was tested on laboratory and pilot scales. The growth rate of the plants was related to the wastewater content in the water. Batch and semicontinuous experiments verified that the plants are capable of decreasing all tested indicators for water quality to levels that permit the use of the purified water for irrigation. This applies to biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand, total suspended solids. pH, and turbidity. In specific cases, the turbidity reached the level of drinking water. Comparison of BOD concentrations with typical levels in water treatment facilities across the country indicates the effectiveness of water purification with plants. A major effect of treatment with plants was elimination of the disturbing smell from the wastewater. It is shown that mixtures of wastewater and polluted water from the Kishon River are amenable in varying degrees to treatment by the plants. The higher the wastewater content in the mixture, the more effective the treatment by the plants. In this context, a scheme for rehabilitation and restoration of the Kishon River is presented and technical and economical aspects of the purification technology are considered.
Vehicle Encounter-Based Forwarding for Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Data Delivery with Partial Stationary Nodes Coverage (2014)

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is an important application of the Internet of Things, achieves the communication with Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET). The communication from Internet Access Point to vehicle (infrastructure-to-vehicle) has higher transmission delay jitter, and the reliability is extremely low. Based on the VANET construction,this paper proposed Vehicle Encounter-based Forwarding Algorithm, in the case of the partial installed the Stationary Nodes in the roadside, the AP selects the Target Vehicle from the vehicles which will encounter the Destination Vehicle based on the trajectories the AP has, and determines the transfer sequence, each node in the transmission process constantly adds new nodes, optimizing the value of the delay to the Target Vehicle,achieves Infrastructure-to-vehicle transmission. The simulation results show that the algorithm can improve the performance of the infrastructure-to-vehicle transmission delay jitter as well as the low reliability.
Stimulatory effect of Echinacea purpurea extract on the trafficking activity of mouse dendritic cells: revealed by genomic and proteomic analyses (2010)

Results from this study suggest that [BF/S+L/Ep] modulates DC mobility and related cellular physiology in the mouse immune system. Moreover, the signaling networks and molecules highlighted here are potential targets for nutritional or clinical application of Echinacea or other candidate medicinal plants.
KIAA1735 gene on human chromosome 11q23.1 encodes a novel protein with myosine-tail homologous domain and C-terminal DIX domain (2003)

Dishevelled 1 (DVL1), DVL2 and DVL3 are DIX-domain proteins implicated in the WNT signaling pathway. Here, we searched for a novel DIX-domain protein by using bioinformatics. Uncharacterized human KIAA1735 gene was found encoding a novel DIX-domain protein. Mouse ortholog of human KIAA1735 gene was next identified, and the nucleotide sequence of mouse Kiaa1735 cDNA was determined in silico by assembling nucleotide sequences of ESTs BY753211, BQ931084, CA750490, BQ960056 and a 5'-truncated partial cDNA AK082960. Human KIAA1735 protein (472 aa) and mouse Kiaa1735 protein (474 aa) showed 90.9% total-amino-acid identity. Myosine-tail homologous (MTH) domain and C-terminal DIX domain were conserved between human KIAA1735 and mouse Kiaa1735 proteins. A tyrosine phosphorylation site (Tyr 242) within the MTH domain was conserved between human KIAA1735 and mouse Kiaa1735 proteins. Leucine zipper motif (codon 202-237) and another tyrosine phosphorylation site (Tyr 272) were identified within the MTH domain of human KIAA1735, but not within that of mouse Kiaa1735. Human KIAA1735 mRNA was expressed in brain, subchondral bone, and also in lung cancer. KIAA1735 gene, consisting of 16 exons, was about 45 kb in size. KIAA1735 gene was linked to DLAT gene in tail-to-head manner with an interval less than 4.0 kb. KIAA1735 gene on human chromosome 11q23.1 was located between D11S1391 and D11S1347 loci, the region deleted in sporadic breast cancer. This is the first report on comprehensive characterization of the KIAA1735 gene.
Quantification and deconvolution of asymmetric LC-MS peaks using the bi-Gaussian mixture model and statistical model selection (2010)

Using extensive simulations and real data, we demonstrated the advantage of the bi-Gaussian mixture model over the Gaussian mixture model and the method of kernel smoothing combined with signal summation in peak quantification and deconvolution. The method is implemented in the R package apLCMS: http://www.sph.emory.edu/apLCMS/.
An adaptive localization system for outdoor/indoor navigation for autonomous robots (2006)

Many envisioned applications of mobile robotic systems require the robot to navigate in complex urban environments. This need is particularly critical if the robot is to perform as part of a synergistic team with human forces in military operations. Historically, the development of autonomous navigation for mobile robots has targeted either outdoor or indoor scenarios, but not both, which is not how humans operate. This paper describes efforts to fuse component technologies into a complete navigation system, allowing a robot to seamlessly transition between outdoor and indoor environments. Under the Joint Robotics Program's Technology Transfer project, empirical evaluations of various localization approaches were conducted to assess their maturity levels and performance metrics in different exterior/interior settings. The methodologies compared include Markov localization, global positioning system, Kalman filtering, and fuzzy-logic. Characterization of these technologies highlighted their best features, which were then fused into an adaptive solution. A description of the final integrated system is discussed, including a presentation of the design, experimental results, and a formal demonstration to attendees of the Unmanned Systems Capabilities Conference II in San Diego in December 2005.
Neuroendocrine and physiological regulation of intake with particular reference to domesticated ruminant animals (2008)

The central nervous system undertakes the homeostatic role of sensing nutrient intake and body reserves, integrating the information, and regulating energy intake and/or energy expenditure. Few tasks regulated by the brain hold greater survival value, particularly important in farmed ruminant species, where the demands of pregnancy, lactation and/or growth are not easily met by often bulky plant-based and sometimes nutrient-sparse diets. Information regarding metabolic state can be transmitted to the appetite control centres of the brain by a diverse array of signals, such as stimulation of the vagus nerve, or metabolic 'feedback' factors derived from the pituitary gland, adipose tissue, stomach/abomasum, intestine, pancreas and/or muscle. These signals act directly on the neurons located in the arcuate nucleus of the medio-basal hypothalamus, a key integration, and hunger (orexigenic) and satiety (anorexigenic) control centre of the brain. Interest in human obesity and associated disorders has fuelled considerable research effort in this area, resulting in increased understanding of chronic and acute factors influencing feed intake. In recent years, research has demonstrated that these results have relevance to animal production, with genetic selection for production found to affect orexigenic hormones, feeding found to reduce the concentration of acute controllers of orexigenic signals, and exogenous administration of orexigenic hormones (i.e. growth hormone or ghrelin) reportedly increasing DM intake in ruminant animals as well as single-stomached species. The current state of knowledge on factors influencing the hypothalamic orexigenic and anorexigenic control centres is reviewed, particularly as it relates to domesticated ruminant animals, and potential avenues for future research are identified.
Contribution of human short‐wave cones to luminance and motion detection. (1989)

1. Human short-wave S cone signals are important for colour vision and here we examine whether the S cone signals also contribute to motion and luminance. 2. Detection was measured with moving patterns that selectively stimulated S cones-violet sine-wave gratings of 1 cycle deg-1 on an intense yellowish field. For rates up to 12 Hz, detection was governed by non-directional mechanisms, possibly of a chromatic nature, as shown by three findings: moving gratings had to be suprathreshold for their direction to be identified; the threshold ratio of counterphase flickering versus moving gratings was low; and direction-selective adaptation was essentially absent. 3. Evidence for less sensitive, directional mechanisms includes the following: at high velocity, the direction of movement of the violet gratings can be identified just slightly above the detection threshold; directional adaptation was strong with a suprathreshold test pattern; velocity was seen veridically for clearly suprathreshold patterns; and a counterphase flickering test, added in spatial-temporal quadrature phase to a similar suprathreshold mask, had identical detection and direction-identification thresholds. 4. Interactions of long-wave L cone and S cone signals in direction-selective mechanisms were measured with an orange counterphase grating and a violet counterphase test, both flickering at the same rate and presented in spatial quadrature phase on the yellowish adapting field. Direction identification thresholds, measured as a function of the temporal phase of two gratings, demonstrated both that the S cone signal lags considerably behind the L cone signal (an effect that strongly varies with S cone light adaptation), and more strikingly, the S cone signal summates with a negative sign and thus is effectively inverted in direction-selective mechanisms. 5. Quantitatively similar temporal phase functions were obtained with uniform violet and orange flicker when a luminance discrimination criterion was used: thus the S cone signal summates negatively with the L cone signal for both discrimination of luminance flicker and the direction of motion. 6. The temporal phase functions accurately predicted threshold summation for identifying the direction of motion of a pair of violet and orange gratings moving with the same velocity but with different spatial phase offsets. Once the relative temporal phase lag of the S cones was compensated for, there was linear threshold summation for the violet and orange patterns when presented in effective (physiological) spatial antiphase, and clear cancellation when presented in phase. This and related experiments show a linear summation of S, M and L cone signals for direction detection, with the S cones having a negative sign.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
Image collection optimization in the design and operation of lightweight, low areal-density space telescopes (2008)

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2008.
A local features-based approach to all-sky image prediction (2015)

Estimation of cloud motion from all-sky image sequences is a very big challenge in the meteorological area that requires extensively study. In this paper, we propose a novel local features-based method to track clouds and to forecast short-term cloudiness up to fifteen minutes ahead using all-sky image sequences. This method allows us to estimate the cloud displacement as well as the change of size scale with high accuracy and robustness, leading to a significant improvement in the precision of cloud image prediction. The proposed Short-term All-sky Image Prediction System (SAIPS) includes three key steps: detection of clouds based on clustering, matching of the clouds from captured sequences, and analysis of cloud tracks to predict their locations. The effectiveness of the proposed system is verified using a database of captured images of real clouds. Experimental results demonstrate a better performance of the proposed approach compared to other algorithms.
Design and Synthesis of New Benzimidazole‐Arylpiperazine Derivatives Acting as Mixed 5‐HT<sub>1A</sub>/5‐HT<sub>3</sub> Ligands. (2003)

Abstract For Abstract see ChemInform Abstract in Full Text.
Over the air handset management (2002)

The advance in code division multiple access (CDMA) technology makes it possible for a third generation mobile station (MS) to support applications that require high data rates, capacity and multimedia capabilities. Future MSs are thus devices supporting voice, fax capabilities, data and messaging services. To support high quality services and improve the satisfaction of the users, over the air management of parameters and software resources in a mobile station would be useful. There exist several standards for remote management of networks and devices in a fixed network. This paper briefly explains methods for over the air handset management (OTAHM) and related standardization activities. This includes handset provisioning, parameter administration, software downloading, etc.
Promoter Recognition As Measured by Binding of Polymerase to Nontemplate Strand Oligonucleotide (1997)

In transcription initiation, the DNA strands must be separated to expose the template to RNA polymerase. As the closed initiation complex is converted to an open one, specific protein-DNA interactions involving bases of the nontemplate strand form and stabilize the promoter complex in the region of unwinding. Specific interaction between RNA polymerase and the promoter in Escherichia coli was detected and quantified as the binding affinity of nontemplate oligonucleotide sequences. The RNA polymerase subunit sigma factor 70 contacted the bases of the nontemplate DNA strand through its conserved region 2; a mutation that affected promoter function altered the binding affinity of the oligonucleotide to the enzyme.
Experimental and quasi-experimental designs for generalized causal inference (2002)

1. Experiments and Generalized Causal Inference 2. Statistical Conclusion Validity and Internal Validity 3. Construct Validity and External Validity 4. Quasi-Experimental Designs That Either Lack a Control Group or Lack Pretest Observations on the Outcome 5. Quasi-Experimental Designs That Use Both Control Groups and Pretests 6. Quasi-Experimentation: Interrupted Time Series Designs 7. Regression Discontinuity Designs 8. Randomized Experiments: Rationale, Designs, and Conditions Conducive to Doing Them 9. Practical Problems 1: Ethics, Participant Recruitment, and Random Assignment 10. Practical Problems 2: Treatment Implementation and Attrition 11. Generalized Causal Inference: A Grounded Theory 12. Generalized Causal Inference: Methods for Single Studies 13. Generalized Causal Inference: Methods for Multiple Studies 14. A Critical Assessment of Our Assumptions
What should social work learn from ‘the fire of social movements that burns at the heart of society’? (2015)

That social work should be ‘on the side of the poor and the oppressed’ in the context of the ubiquitous and increasingly pernicious consequences of global neoliberal capitalism, demands a differently engaged practice (Dominelli, 2004; Ferguson and Lavalette, 2006; Ferguson, 2008; Reisch, 2013; Sewpaul, 2013). This requires ‘greater system destabilising and social change efforts, and not the traditional social control and status-quo-maintaining functions of social work’ (Sewpaul, 2013: 23). The struggles for social and economic justice waged by global and local social movements may therefore provide insights and impetus for such ‘differently engaged’ radical and transformative practice. This article explores the processes and strategies of two South African social movements and suggests that social work should incorporate some of the discourses of these movements for expansion of its theoretical base for transformation and social change.
EBG structures for antenna design at THz frequencies (2011)

Antennas designed in the THz band using conventional metallic waveguides have a poor performance due to the high losses of non-ideal conductors at THz frequencies. To avoid this problem, low-loss waveguides at high frequencies, e.g. ribbon waveguides or metallic wires, might be used. This paper presents the design of antennas in the THz band by means of a new rectangular waveguide. This waveguide is formed by a 1D-EBG structure on side walls, and a 3D-EBG structure, known as woodpile, on upper and lower walls. The resulting waveguide has a low attenuation in the THz band and allows the easy formation and fabrication of devices and horn antennas.
Properties of the Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide-binding Sites of L-α-Glycerophosphate Dehydrogenase (1968)

Abstract l-α-Glycerophosphate dehydrogenase was demonstrated to be inhibited by a homologous series of N1-alkylnicotinamide chlorides, ranging from the N1-methyl to the N1-dodecyl derivative, inclusive. The inhibition obtained was observed to be reversible and competitive with respect to the coenzyme NAD. The binding of N1-alkylnicotinamide chlorides larger than the N1-pentyl derivative to glycerophosphate dehydrogenase was shown to be facilitated through nonpolar interactions with the enzyme. Adenosine, adenylic acid, adenosine diphosphate, and adenosine diphosphoribose were also shown to be coenzyme-competitive inhibitors of glycerophosphate dehydrogenase. The effectiveness of binding of these compounds increased with the size of the adenine derivative employed. Multiple inhibition analysis was used to demonstrate simultaneous binding of inhibitors that interact with different regions of the NAD-binding site of the enzyme. Inhibitors interacting with the same regions of the NAD-binding site were shown to mutually exclude one another from binding to the enzyme. It was suggested that the binding of NAD to glycerophosphate dehydrogenase occurs through interactions involving the adenosine moiety, the pyrophosphate grouping, and the positively charged nicotinamide ring system. The presence of a hydrophobic region near the NAD-binding site of the enzyme was indicated.
Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering (2012)

Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum for professional engineers and physicists engaged in these subjects. With a collection of more than 2000 equations, 300 illustrations and 500 graphs and tables, here one will find, in addition to the common formulae of previous compilations, hard-to-find, specialized formulae, recipes and material data pooled from the lifetime experience of many of the world's most able practitioners of the art and science of accelerators.
Spatiotemporal control of cardiac alternans (2002)

Electrical alternans are believed to be linked to the onset of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Recent studies have shown that alternans can be suppressed temporally by dynamic feedback control of the pacing interval. Here we investigate theoretically whether control can suppress alternans both temporally and spatially in homogeneous tissue paced at a single site. We first carry out ionic model simulations in a one-dimensional cable geometry which show that control is only effective up to a maximum cable length that decreases sharply away from the alternans bifurcation point. We then explain this finding by a linear stability analysis of an amplitude equation that describes the spatiotemporal evolution of alternans. This analysis reveals that control failure above a critical cable length is caused by the formation of standing wave patterns of alternans that are eigenfunctions of a forced Helmholtz equation, and therefore remarkably analogous to sound harmonics in an open pipe. We discuss the implications of these results for using control to suppress alternans in the human ventricles as well as to probe fundamental aspects of alternans morphogenesis. (c) 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Fundamental mode radiation with solid-state lasers (1972)

Optical pumping of solid-state lasers induces thermal lensing in the laser crystal. This lansing determines the beam properties in the resonator; the TEM <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">00</inf> -mode radiation is limited to a small laser rod volume and it depends on the pump power. Especially with pulse-pumped systems, the generation of stable fundamental mode radiation could only be obtained with low efficiency. Laser resonators with optimum TEM <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">00</inf> mode output were studied considering the thermal lensing. A kind of resonator was found, the radiation of which is insensitive to thermal distortions. The following is determined by parameters <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">g_{1}, g_{2}</tex> : <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">\frac{1}{g_{1}}=2g_{2} +^{1} (\frac{a}{b})^{2} + 2\frac{a}{b}</tex> , where <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">a</tex> and <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">b</tex> are distances between rod ends and mirrors, <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">a</tex> and <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">b</tex> being the distances between the two mirrors and the lens. The predicted beam behavior was verified experimentally with a high repetition rate YAG laser. A high-precision laser drilling machine was constructed with this design. Because of the insensitive properties, reproducible material processing was achieved in industrial use.
PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEW OF CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA (2017)

Caesalpinia bonducella is classified under the family of Caesalpiniaceae. It is also known as C. bonducella Flem and C. crista Linn. The plant is found in the tropical and the subtropical parts of Asia. It is also found in Andaman, Nicobar islands and in all over India. The plant is a large prickly shrub. The branches are finely gray downy armed with hooked and hard prickles. Leaves, seeds, roots and bark of this plant are useful parts as a medicine. Caesalpinia bonducella (roxb.) shows antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, antimalarial, antioxidant, antibacterial, antitumor and antidiabetic activities. The Phytochemical screening of C.bonducella shows the existence of different bioactive compounds like sterols, oils, alkaloids, saponins, phenols, glycosides, tannins, amino acids, proteins, cardiac glycosides, alkaloids, terpenoids, carbohydrates, flavanoids and resins.
United States of America v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association (1944)

Supreme Court has overruled another prior Supreme Court decision, rendered in the case of Paul v. Virginia, and in doing so has done a fine piece of work.The