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Diameter-dependent thermopower of bismuth nanowires (2008)

We present a study of electronic transport in individual Bi nanowires of large diameter relative to the Fermi wavelength. Measurements of the resistance and thermopower of intrinsic and Sn-doped Bi wires with various wire diameters, ranging from $150\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\text{to}\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}480\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{nm}$, have been carried out over a wide range of temperatures $(4--300\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K})$ and magnetic fields $(0--14\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{T})$. We find that the thermopower of intrinsic Bi wires in this diameter range is positive (type $p$) below about $150\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$, displaying a peak at around $40\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$. In comparison, intrinsic bulk Bi is type $n$. Magnetothermopower effects due to the decrease of surface scattering when the cyclotron diameter is less than the wire diameter are demonstrated. The measurements are interpreted in terms of a model of diffusive thermopower, where the mobility limitations posed by hole-boundary scattering are much less severe than those due to electron-boundary scattering.
THE FLOW OF DATA IN COUPLED MICROSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODELS (2000)

This paper addresses several issues arising in the design of a model-coupling interface, including the synchronization of different simulation time-step lengths, and introduces an algorithm for data flow in this environment. This synchronization scheme can be used to couple an individual vehicle representation of traffic (mesoscopic or microscopic) to a macroscopic representation. In particular, the paper reports the formulation and implementation of model coupling of a microscopic traffic simulator (PELOPS) to a macroscopic simulator (SIMONE). The coupling of macroscopic data upstream to the microscopic simulator downstream utilizes a disaggregation tool. Coupling of the microscopic simulator to specified downstream macroscopic data has also been implemented. The macroscopic speed information is transmitted to the microscopic simulator in this implementation by introducing a simulated variable speed limit. An approach to validation of the coupling structure is also suggested that takes into account the dependencies of the different models. For the covering abstract see ITRD E114174.
Photosynthetic electron transport controls nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria by means of posttranslational modification of the glnB gene product. (1991)

A glnB gene is identified in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, and its gene product is found to be covalently modified as a result of imbalance in electron transfer in photosynthesis, where photosystem II is favored over photosystem I. The gene was cloned and sequenced and found to encode a polypeptide of 112 amino acid residues, whose sequence shows a high degree of similarity to the Escherichia coli regulatory protein, PII. In E. coli, PII is involved in signal transduction in transcriptional and post-translational regulation of nitrogen assimilation. Increase in ammonium ion concentration is shown to decrease covalent modification of the Synechococcus PII protein, as in enteric bacteria. We therefore propose that the photosynthetic electron transport chain may regulate the pathway of nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria by means of posttranslational, covalent modification of the glnB gene product. The existence of the glnB gene in different strains of cyanobacteria is demonstrated and its implications are discussed.
The art of social inclusion (2013)

A recent environmental exhibition Artworks in Green was the inspiration of several residents at Sacred Heart Mission's rooming house on Queens Road in Melbourne who wished to raise awareness around human and environmental issues, particularly connected to Port Phillip Bay and the foreshore. Both the land and people have gone through phases of growth, exploitation and decay. If cared for by the community, both can experience renewal.
Über die Darstellung Neuer Phenylchrom‐Komplexe (1974)

Abstract Durch Reaktion von CrPh 3 · 3 THF mit Lithiumpyrrolyl entsteht LiC 4 H 4 NCrPh 3 · 3 THF, während Kaliumdiphenylamid und Lithiumdicyclohexylphosphid unter Reduktion K 2 CrPh 2 (NPh 2 ) 2 · 2 THF bzw. Li 2 CrPh 2 (PCh 2 ) 2 · 4 THF bilden. Außerdem wurde C 4 H 4 NCrCl 2 · 3 THF dargestellt.
The cardiac muscle cell (2000)

The cardiac myocyte is the most physically energetic cell in the body, contracting constantly, without tiring, 3 billion times or more in an average human lifespan. By coordinating its beating activity with that of its 3 billion neighbours in the main pump of the human heart, over 7,000 litres of blood are pumped per day, without conscious effort, along 100,000 miles of blood vessels. A detailed picture of the membrane organisation of the cardiac muscle cell underpins our understanding of how the electrical impulse, generated within the heart, stimulates coordinated contraction of the cardiac chambers. This article highlights, with the aid of modern cellular imaging methods, key components of the membrane machinery responsible for coupling electrical excitation and contraction in the cardiomyocyte, focusing on plasma membrane/sarcoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane/plasma membrane junctions. BioEssays 22:188-199, 2000.
Enzymatic activity of a developmentally regulated member of the sialyltransferase family (STX): evidence for α2,8‐sialyltransferase activity toward N‐linked oligosaccharides (1995)

We have detected sialyltransferase activity of recombinant mouse STX, which was cloned from rat brain as a new member of the sialyltransferase family, but sialyltransferase activity of which had not been detected previously [Livingston and Paulson, J. Biol. Chem. (1993) 268, 11504-11507]. The activity of mouse STX was specific toward sialylated glycoproteins. N-Glycanase treatment and linkage-specific sialidase treatment of glycoproteins revealed that STX transfers sialic acids through alpha 2,8-linkages to only N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins. However, polymerase activity for polysialic acid synthesis was not detected for this sialyltransferase. Since this alpha 2,8-sialyltransferase gene is highly restricted in fetal and newborn brain, it may be involved in the polysialylation of glycoproteins, especially of N-CAM.
Symmetric Double V-Shaped Microstrip Meander-Line Slow-Wave Structure for W-Band Traveling-Wave Tube (2012)

A design study for a low-voltage, high-efficiency, and wide-bandwidth W-band traveling-wave tube using a symmetric double V-shaped microstrip meander-line slow-wave structure combined with a sheet electron beam is described in this paper. The electromagnetic characteristics including the dispersion characteristics, interaction impedance, and transmission characteristics of this structure are presented, and the beam-wave interaction is calculated using particle-in-cell algorithms. Our study shows that, when the design voltage and current of the sheet electron beam are set to 4570 V and 100 mA, respectively, this miniature millimeter-wave power amplifier is capable of delivering several tens of watts output power, and the peak output power is about 110 W with a corresponding gain of 31.4 dB and an averaged electronic efficiency of 12% at 94 GHz.
Scalable local regression for spatial analytics (2011)

Local regression models are one of the backbones of spatial analytics. Computational scalability of such models can be resolved with a distributed implementation which requires truly local modelling as communication between components is limited or absent at some stages. The use of such models in a streaming context provide further restrictions. A calibration procedure has to be truly incremental, with constant memory and processing time for any sample in a stream. This paper explores a spatially distributed incremental local regression model satisfying these requirements and providing similar functionality in terms of interpretability and modelling accuracy as the widely-used geographically weighted regression. Our experiments were run on a conventional mid-range 8-core server. In the largest scale experiment we processed a stream of 157 million spatially referenced samples simulating power consumption readings taken every 2 hours in a period of 5 months from about 87000 households in a European country. The software implementation we developed for the evaluation and performance analysis is made available as an open source project.
A guide to team incentive systems (1998)

Abstract The growing use of teams in the workplace has led to an increasing number of incentive systems designed to motivate team performance. The present paper reviews such incentive systems, including: team gainsharing/profit‐sharing incentive systems; team goal‐based incentive systems; team discretionary bonus systems; team skill incentive systems; team member skill incentive systems; team member goal‐based incentive systems; and team member merit incentive systems. Evidence regarding the effectiveness of each team incentive system is reviewed. Generally, two factors affect the usefulness of a given team incentive system: team interdependence (both within and between teams) and team type (i.e., full‐ or part‐time). Based upon these factors, guidelines for the implementation of each team incentive system are provided.
Magnetically Actuated Liquid Crystals (2014)

Ferrimagnetic inorganic nanorods have been used as building blocks to construct liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by manipulating the nanorod orientation using considerably weak external magnetic fields (1 mT). Under an alternating magnetic field, they exhibit an optical switching frequency above 100 Hz, which is comparable to the performance of commercial liquid crystals based on electrical switching. By combining magnetic alignment and lithography processes, it is also possible to create patterns of different polarizations in a thin composite film and control over the transmittance of light in particular areas. Developing such magnetically responsive liquid crystals opens the door toward various applications, which may benefit from the instantaneous and contactless nature of magnetic manipulation.
Dictionary sharing: An efficient cache compression scheme for compressed caches (2016)

The effectiveness of a compressed cache depends on three features: i) the compression scheme, ii) the compaction scheme, and iii) the cache layout of the compressed cache. Skewed compressed cache (SCC) and yet another compressed cache (YACC) are two recently proposed compressed cache layouts that feature minimal storage and latency overheads, while achieving comparable performance over more complex compressed cache layouts. Both SCC and YACC use compression techniques to compress individual cache blocks, and then a compaction technique to compact multiple contiguous compressed blocks into a single data entry. The primary attribute used by these techniques for compaction is the compression factor of the cache blocks, and in this process, they waste cache space. In this paper, we propose dictionary sharing (DISH), a dictionary based cache compression scheme that reduces this wastage. DISH compresses a cache block by keeping in mind that the block is a potential candidate for the compaction process. DISH encodes a cache block with a dictionary that stores the distinct 4-byte chunks of a cache block and the dictionary is shared among multiple neighboring cache blocks. The simple encoding scheme of DISH also provides a single cycle decompression latency and it does not change the cache layout of compressed caches. Compressed cache layouts that use DISH outperforms the compression schemes, such as BDI and CPACK+Z, in terms of compression ratio (from 1.7X to 2.3X), system performance (from 7.2% to 14.3%), and energy efficiency (from 6% to 16%).
[Treatment of early postoperative intra-abdominal complications in elderly and senile patients]. (2004)

Results of treatment of 334 patients who had intra-abdominal complications in the early postoperative period were analyzed. Among them there were 160 patients (47.9%) aged 60 years and older. Reoperations for different complications were performed on 311 patients including 141 patients from the older age group that made up 45.3%. The primary operations were performed on 131 elderly and senile patients for emergency and urgent indications. Planned operations on organs of the abdominal cavity were performed on 29 (18.1%) patients. Our experiences include 114 laparoscopies in 92 elderly and senile patients with the aim to diagnose and treat early postoperative intra-abdominal complications. A suspected intra-abdominal complication or high risk of its appearance was considered as an indication for the investigation. The laparoscopic method for diagnosing and treatment of this category of patients is thought to be a perspective direction for the improvement of results of treatment of a pathology of the early postoperative period.
Ouabain-Like and Non-Ouabain-Like Factors in Plasma of Patients with Essential Hypertension (1987)

Circulating inhibitor of Na+,K+-ATPase and ouabain-like immunoreactivity were studied in patients with essential hypertension. In the plasma of patients, two types of Na+,K+-ATPase inhibitors (ouabain-like and non-ouabain-like inhibitors) and ouabain-like immunoreactivity were detected. Ouabain-like inhibitor was clearly detected at a low KCl concentration (0.1 mM) in the assay buffer, and non-ouabain-like inhibitor was detected at a high KCl concentration (10 mM). The plasma level of ouabain-like inhibitor correlated significantly with that of ouabain-like immunoreactivity (p less than 0.001) and with a mean blood pressure (p less than 0.01). The plasma level of non-ouabain-like inhibitor was not correlated with the levels of either ouabain-like immunoreactivity or mean blood pressure. The level of plasma ouabain-like inhibitor did not correlate with that of plasma non-ouabain like inhibitor. Both ouabain-like inhibitor and ouabain-like immunoreactivity in the plasma of patients with essential hypertension were significantly higher than those in normotensive subjects, but the plasma level of non-ouabain-like inhibitor in patients with essential hypertension was not higher than that in normotensive subjects. These results suggest that the plasma from patients with essential hypertension contains ouabain-like factor(s) which is important to maintain the high blood pressure.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in Health Care Industry - A Study of Select Corporate Hospitals in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh (2011)

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is perhaps the most important concept of modern marketing. Until recently, CRM has been defined narrowly as a customer data management activity. In its broader sense, CRM is the overall process of building and maintaining profitable customer relationships by delivering superior customer value and satisfaction. It deals with all aspects of acquiring, keeping and growing customers. The key to building lasting customer relationships is to create superior customer value and satisfaction. Organizations can build customer relationships at many levels, depending on the nature of the target market. To build customer relationships, companies can add structural ties as well as financial and social benefits. Today's companies are building more direct and lasting relationships with more carefully selected customers. Changing demographics, more sophisticated competitors mean that there are fewer customers to go around. Many organizations are now fighting for shares of flat or fading markets. In addition to being good at customer relationship management, marketers must also be good at partner relationship management, which means working closely with partners in other company departments and outside the company to jointly bring greater value to customers. Thus, the goal of marketing is to build and manage profitable customer relationships. Successful CRM focuses on the profiling or understanding the needs and desires of the customers and is achieved by placing these needs at the heart of the business by integrating them with the organization's strategy, people, and technology and business processes. CRM requires a synergistic integration of the strategy, people and technology of an organization. This integration leads to the creation of the service process that seeks to develop an ongoing relationship with customers and results in the creation of an exchange relationship that is mutually beneficial for both the organization and the customer. CRM must come from the top. It is an all-encompassing strategy, and no one department or Call center or Information Technology manager can drive the cross-functional process changes required. Thus, CRM is a Holistic approach.
Chemical composition of the leaf volatile oil of <i> Psidium guajava </i>L. growing in Nigeria (2003)

Abstract The composition of the volatile oil obtained from the hydrodistillation of the leaves of Psidium guajava L., growing in Nigeria, was studied by GC–MS. Forty‐two compounds, representing more than 90% of the volatile mixture, were identiﬁed. The signiﬁcant compounds were limonene (42.1%) and β ‐caryophyllene (21.3%). Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
β‐Lactamase of <i>Bacillus licheniformis</i> 749/C at 2 Å resolution (1990)

Two crystal forms (A and B) of the 29,500 Da Class A beta-lactamase (penicillinase) from Bacillus licheniformis 749/C have been examined crystallographically. The structure of B-form crystals has been solved to 2 A resolution, the starting model for which was a 3.5 A structure obtained from A-form crystals. The beta-lactamase has an alpha + beta structure with 11 helices and 5 beta-strands seen also in a penicillin target DD-peptidase of Streptomyces R61. Atomic parameters of the two molecules in the asymmetric unit were refined by simulated annealing at 2.0 A resolution. The R factor is 0.208 for the 27,330 data greater than 3 sigma (F), with water molecules excluded from the model. The catalytic Ser-70 is at the N-terminus of a helix and is within hydrogen bonding distance of conserved Lys-73. Also interacting with the Lys-73 are Asn-132 and the conserved Glu-166, which is on a potentially flexible helix-containing loop. The structure suggests the binding of beta-lactam substrates is facilitated by interactions with Lys-234, Thr-235, and Ala-237 in a conserved beta-strand peptide, which is antiparallel to the beta-lactam's acylamido linkage; an exposed cavity near Asn-170 exists for acylamido substituents. The reactive double bond of clavulanate-type inhibitors may interact with Arg-244 on the fourth beta-strand. A very similar binding site architecture is seen in the DD-peptidase.
Dyeing color-filters for liquid crystal display (2002)

It is pointed out that the development of LCDs (liquid crystal displays) for OA and TV has focused on larger sizes and coloring. A color filter (CF) which makes colored-LCDs possible must have higher color purity and contrast to light. To match these features, a water soluble photosensitive composition composed of special polypeptides obtained by hydrolysis of cattle gelatin was developed. The photosensitive composition has good resolution and stability for aging. The hydrolyzate can be produced in a good yield under strict control to have a narrow distribution of a desirable molecular weight. The dyeing CF, featuring the hydrolyzate, is the most suitable for commercial production.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Impact of <scp>NSAID</scp> and Triptan Use on Developing Chronic Migraine: Results From the <scp>A</scp> merican Migraine Prevalence and Prevention ( <scp>AMPP</scp> ) Study (2013)

Triptan use in EM is associated with an increased risk of CM onset that increases with days of medication use. For NSAIDs, effects depend on headache days per month. NSAIDs are protective in individuals with less than 10 headache days per month but associated with increased risk with 10 or more headache days per month. Combining a triptan and NSAID was not associated with a statistically significant increased risk of CM onset, whereas increased risk of CM onset was significantly associated with triptan monotherapy.
Effects of the enterokinetic prucalopride (R093877) on colonic motility in fasted dogs (2001)

The novel enterokinetic drug prucalopride was tested at various intravenous and oral doses in fasted dogs to assess: (i) the effects on colonic contractile motility patterns; and (ii) the mediation of these effects by 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT4) receptors. Colonic motility patterns were assessed in conscious dogs with four chronically implanted strain-gauge force transducers that were sutured on the serosal side of the colon. Prucalopride altered colonic contractile motility patterns in a dose-dependent fashion by stimulating high-amplitude clustered contractions in the proximal colon and by inhibiting contractile activity in the distal colon. Prucalopride was equipotent after oral and intravenous administration, as reflected by the values for the effective dose that induced 50% of maximum effect (95% confidence limits): 0.04 mg kg(-1) p.o. (0.01-0.1 mg kg(-1)) and 0.01 mg kg(-1) i.v. (0.006-0.04 mg kg(-1)). Prucalopride also caused a dose-dependent decrease in the time to the first giant migrating contraction (GMC); at higher doses of prucalopride, the first GMC generally occurred within the first half-hour after treatment. Subcutaneous pretreatment with the 5-HT4 receptor antagonist GR125487 (40 microg kg(-1) bodyweight) completely prevented the effects of orally administered prucalopride (0.31 mg kg(-1) bodyweight). Prucalopride, given orally or intravenously, alters colonic motility in the fasted conscious dog in a dose-dependent fashion. It induces GMCs and causes proximal colon stimulation and distal colon inhibition of contractile motility patterns by stimulating 5-HT4 receptors.
Plasma-based accelerator diagnostics based upon longitudinal interferometry with ultrashort optical pulses (1996)

All-optical ultrafast time-resolved plasma diagnostics of plasma-based accelerators (PBA's) are described, with emphasis on the laser wakefield accelerator (LWFA). Specifically, the diagnostic techniques involve replacing the trailing particle bunch in the LWFA with a trailing photon bunch: a weak ultrashort laser pulse. Since this photon pulse is derived directly from the intense pump pulse, practical difficulties such as synchronization and dephasing are eliminated. The interaction of the photon bunch with the plasma wake is essentially a simple time-domain shift in optical phase, which can produce both "DC" phase shifts and frequency blue/red-shifting of the probe pulse spectrum. These phase/frequency shifts are recorded in frequency domain interferograms, which are formally equivalent to time-domain holograms. Experimental results of longitudinal plasma density profiling are presented in which plasma density oscillations (Langmuir waves) in the wake of an intense (I/sub peak//spl sim/3/spl times/10/sup 17/ W/cm/sup 2/) laser pulse (/spl sim/100 fs) were measured with ultrafast time resolution. Phase shifts consistent with large amplitude (/spl sim/80%) density oscillations at the electron plasma frequency were observed in a fully tunnel-ionized He plasma, corresponding to longitudinal electric fields of /spl sim/10 GV/m. Strong radial ponderomotive forces enhance the density oscillations. Finally, proposed single-shot schemes for simultaneous transverse and longitudinal profiling are discussed.