The reasons for replacing the classical strictly two-component velocity and equilibrium analytical ultracentrifugation Svedberg equations by multicomponent equations, applicable in the study of biological macromolecular systems, are given.

Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) is being used in the Sediment and Society project as a tool for communicating impacts, as a tool for documenting differences in interests of stakeholder groups, and as a tool for ranking complex sediment remediation alternatives. Ranking of alternatives in MCA requires impacts to be (i) standardised, and then (ii) weighted against one another. This Technical Brief ...

OBJECTIVE Construction is a hazardous occupation due to the unique nature of activities involved and the repetitiveness of several field behaviors. The aim of this methodological and theoretical review is to explore the empirical factors influencing unsafe behaviors and accidents on construction sites. METHODS In this work, results and findings from 56 related previous studies were investigat...

At the summer workshop of the Korean Endocrine Society held in 2016, some examples of protein experiments were discussed in the session entitled "All about working with proteins." In contrast to what the title suggested, it was unrealistic to comprehensively discuss all protein analytical methods. Therefore, the goal was to outline protein experimental techniques that are useful in research or ...

The contribution of order alpha(2)(Zalpha)(6)ln (3)(Zalpha)(-2) to the ground-state Lamb shift in hydrogen induced by the loop-after-loop diagram is evaluated analytically. An additional contribution of this order is found compared to the previous calculation by Karshenboim [Sov. Phys. JETP 76, 541 (1993)]. As a result, agreement is achieved for this correction between different numerical and a...

Genome-wide association studies raise study-design and analytical issues that are still being debated. Among them, stands the issue of reducing the number of markers to be genotyped without loss of efficiency in identifying trait loci, which can reduce the cost of studies and minimize the multiple testing problem. With this aim, we proposed a two-step strategy based on two analytical methods su...

Potential utilization of proteins for early detection and diagnosis of various diseases has drawn considerable interest in the development of protein-based multiplex detection techniques. Among the various techniques for high-throughput protein screening, optically-encoded beads combined with fluorescence-based target monitoring have great advantages over the planar array-based multiplexing ass...

A quantitative method is presented for creating a large number of classes of binary (256) and ternary (7.62 x 10(12)) textures. The binary textures are presented as black and white (contrasts -1 and 1). The ternary textures have three levels: black, white and the mean luminance gray (contrasts -1, 0 and 1). The ternary patterns in particular display a wide variety of properties, including depth...

Behaviour of expert and novice database users solving the same task was recorded. Several successful strategies were identified. Since there are more users than strategies, some users applied the same strategy. The aim was to develop methods grouping users with common strategy. Following three approaches (correlation, intersection, and exclusion), a metric among task solving behavioural sequenc...

This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Fac...