Most mitochondrial proteins are synthesized with cleavable amino-terminal targeting signals that interact with the mitochondrial import machinery to facilitate their import from the cytosol. We previously reported that the presequence of the F(1)-ATPase beta subunit precursor (pre-F(1)beta) acts as an intramolecular chaperone that maintains the precursor in an import-competent conformation prio...

Preaspiration is a comparatively rare phonetic feature, almost entirely confined to languages spoken in far northwestern Europe (Andersen 2002; Helgason 2002). A recent acoustic phonetic investigation into consonant gemination in Sienese Italian (e.g. Stevens & Hajek 2007), however, found that preaspiration occurred in one third of geminate /pp tt kk/ tokens. Up until that point preaspirated st...

When Zadeh first introduced the notion of a fuzzy set, it was laughed away by the ruling caste of 'serious' mathematicians and logicians. Driven by ignorance, the main reason for it was probably strategic: as fuzzy set theory touches upon the very building block of mathematics, it might be better to deny it than to risk being taken out of business. Even the ample practical realizations had no e...

compared with 201Tl SPECT imaging. Radiology 2004;232:49–57. 24. Asanuma T, Tanabe K, Ochiai K, Yoshitomi H, Nakamura K, Murakami Y, Sano K, Shimada T, Murakami R, Morioka S, Beppu S. Relationship between progressive microvascular damage and intramyocardial hemorrhage in patients with reperfused anterior myocardial infarction: myocardial contrast echocardiographic study. Circulation 1997;96: 44...

We consider online algorithms for scheduling weighted packets with deadlines in multiple sizebounded buffers. There are m ≥ 1 buffers B1, B2, . . . , Bm. At any time, a buffer Bi can store at most bi ∈ Z packets. Packets arrive over time. Each packet is associated with a non-negative value, an integer deadline, and a target buffer that it can reside in. In each time step, only one pending packe...

In this paper, the authors study the notion of n-fold implicative and fuzzy n-fold implicative filters, which correspond to various sets of provable formulaes, in BL-algebras. Several characterizations of fuzzy n-fold implicative filters are given and the authors analyse some relationships with various n-fold and fuzzy n-fold filters in BL-algebras, while constructing some algorithms for studyi...

Next, consider the system of differential equations d dt y r (t) = r w r (t) 0 y r (t) j2r j (t) (11) for r 2 R, where j(t) = pj r:j2r yr(t) (12) and p j (1) is a positive continuous increasing function, for j 2 J. We interpret the relations (11)–(12) as follows. Suppose that resource j marks a proportion p j (z) of packets with a feedback signal when the total flow through resource j is z; and...

In this thesis we obtain several new results in the areas of decentralized sequential detection and robust decentralized detection. In the area of decentralized sequential detection, we first consider the case in which each sensor performs a sequential test on its observations and arrives at a local decision about the true hypothesis; subsequently, the local decisions of all of the sensors are ...

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Sustainability represents a commonly agreed global development goal. It aims at ensuring the quality of life on Earth for current and future generations. should thus become fundamental overarching concept efficient/high-quality design operation any product or service throughout its lifecycle—focusing all three pillars sustainability—social, environmental, economic. Among different socioeconomic...