Functional studies of the interleukin 2 receptor (IL-2R) of two (ED515-D and Kit225) IL-2-dependent and three (ED515-I, 3T3-alpha beta 11, and Hut102) IL-2-independent cell lines were done. All of these cell lines appeared to express high as well as low affinity IL-2R. However, ED515-I and 3T3-alpha beta 11, which expressed the IL-2R beta chain, did not bind IL-2 at all when IL-2 binding to the...

In spite of the fact that the effect of earthquake on earth dams has been widely studied during the past decades, the complicated behavior of such earth structures against different seismological characteristics is still unknown. Such ambiguities necessitate more accurate studies using more comprehensive computation tools to achieve new results describing the behavior of such structures subject...

In spite of the fact that the effect of earthquake on earth dams has been widely studied during the past decades, the complicated behavior of such earth structures against different seismological characteristics is still unknown. Such ambiguities necessitate more accurate studies using more comprehensive computation tools to achieve new results describing the behavior of such structures subject...

We explored the impact of operand format (digit, word, pseudo-homophone) on single-digit addition and multiplication. Format manipulations are of theoretical interest because models of arithmetic knowledge differ with respect to predicted format effects. Latencies were shortest when operands were digits, and longest when they were pseudo-homophones. However, there was also an interaction of pro...

Latent class models with crossed subject-specific and test(rater)-specific random effects have been proposed to estimate the diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity and specificity) of a group of binary tests or binary ratings. However, the computation of these models are hindered by their complicated Monte Carlo Expectation–Maximization (MCEM) algorithm. In this article, a class of pseudo-likelihood ...

A testable EXOR-Sum-of-Products (ESOP) circuit realization and a simple, universal test set which detects all single stuck-at faults in the internal lines and the primary inputs/outputs of the realization are given. Since ESOP is the most general form of AND-EXOR representations, our realization and test set are more versatile than those described by other researchers for the restricted GRM, FP...

Building visual recognition models that adapt across different domains is a challenging task for computer vision. While feature-learning machines in the form of hierarchial feed-forward models (e.g., convolutional neural networks) showed promise in this direction, they are still difficult to train especially when few training examples are available. In this paper, we present a framework for tra...

Multigrid algorithms are developed to solve the discrete systems approximating the solutions of operator equations involving pseudo-diierential operators of order minus one. Classical multigrid theory deals with the case of diierential operators of positive order. The pseudo-diierential operator gives rise to a coercive form on H ?1=2 ((). EEective multigrid algorithms are developed for this pr...

In this paper, we implement a revised pseudo random bit generator based on a rule-90 cellular automaton. For this purpose, we introduce a sequence matrix HN with the aim of calculating the pseudo random sequences of N bits employing the algorithm related to the automaton backward evolution. In addition, a multifractal structure of the matrix HN is revealed and quantified according to the multif...