Every living cell is a compartmentalized out-of-equilibrium system exquisitely able to convert chemical energy into function. In order to maintain homeostasis, the flux of metabolites is tightly controlled by regulatory enzymatic networks. A crucial prerequisite for the development of lifelike materials is the construction of synthetic systems with compartmentalized reaction networks that maint...

Curvature matching for 5-axis surface machining has been plagued by the complexity of the task. As a result the current tool positioning strategies are likewise computationally complicated. Gouging the surface has been the main concern and has presented the greatest dif®culty in the algorithms. Some of the methods perform exhaustive searches of the surface to avoid gouging while others incremen...

The positive relationship between inflation and relative price variability has been taken as a proven case, but recent evidence casts doubt on the verdict. This paper shows that theory can support positive or negative relationships, while past empirical evidence may have been contaminated by aggregation bias and our measures of price dispersion and inflation. We re-examine the empirical evidenc...

Abstract Background and Aims Belatacept conversion is associated with an improvement in kidney allograft function. Yet, not all transplant recipients (KTRs) seem to benefit equally from this alteration of maintenance immunosuppression. Both type (alloimmune vs. non-alloimmune) severity (assessed by proteinuria) injury may impact the functional response a belatacept conversion. Method We studied...

Voice conversion involves transformation of speaker characteristics in a speech uttered by a speaker called source speaker so as to generate a speech having voice characteristics of a desired speaker called target speaker. Voice conversion technology is used in many applications namely dubbing, to enhance the quality of the speech, text-to-speech synthesizers, online games, multimedia, music, c...

Chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN) is the most prevalent cause of late kidney transplant failure characterized by progressive loss of graft function in combination with proteinuria and hypertension [1]. Both immunological and non-immunological factors play a role in the development of CAN, and calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) therapy has been identified to be an important non-immunological cause [2...

The stochastic rounding (SR) function is proposed to evaluate and demonstrate the effects of stochastically row column subscripts in image interpolation scan conversion. SR based on a pseudorandom number, enabling up or down any non-integer subscripts. Also, exceptionally enables possible cases subscript inputs that are inferior number. algorithm interest nearest-neighbor (NNI) which traditiona...

a detailed model of wind power station, including double fed induction generator, dfig is presented in this paper. two control mechanisms are included in the model. the inner control system uses stator flux oriented control for the rotor side converter and grid voltage vector control for the grid side converter. the outer control system is used for wind turbine pitch angle. pscad/emtdc is used ...

Additional experimental evidence of rotary resonance effects for multiple-quantum coherence conversion in a spin-5/2 system is presented. Two-dimensional plots of the relative efficiency of MQ excitation and conversion are given as a function of radio frequency (rf) amplitude and pulse width. Data are presented for the excitation of five-quantum coherence (5QC), as well as for 5QC to three-quan...