Electrochemical systems, which rely on coupled phenomena of the chemical change and electricity, have been utilized for development an interface between biological systems and conventional electronics. The development and detailed understanding of the operation mechanism of such interfaces have a great importance to many fields within life science and conventional electronics. Conducting polyme...

We describe an 11 year old girl with a de novo unbalanced t(X;10) that resulted in a deletion of Xq26-->Xqter and a trisomy of 10q21-->10qter. Her clinical features were of distal trisomy 10q, but she lacked the cardiovascular and renal malformations observed in duplications of 10q24-->10qter and had only moderate mental retardation. X inactivation was assessed on peripheral blood lymphocytes b...

THE INITIAL barrier to successful organ xenotrans1. plantation in discordant species is hyperacute rejection (HAR) mediated by either natural (preformed) or induced antibodies. 1•2 Hamster cardiac xenografts are normally rejected by this mechanism within 3 days when transplanted into naive LEW or athymic (nude) rats,3 which in the latter is supposedly caused by a T-cell independent process. Thi...

The acidity and stability constants of M(Trp) M: Cu, Cu(Bpy)2+, and Cu(Phen)2+ complexes, were determined by potentiometric pH titration. It is shown that the stability of the binary Cu(Trp) complex is determined by the basicity of the carboxylate group on one side and amino group on the other side. It is demonstrated that the equilibrium, Cu(Har)2+ + Cu(Trp) Cu(Har)(Trp) + Cu, is displacement ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes complications include various symptoms such as diabetic neuropathy and cognitive disorders. Aldose reductase (AR) is the rate-limiting enzyme of the polyol pathway and is one of the causal factors of diabetes complications. In this study, the bioactivities of eight selected Kampo formulations that are currently in clinical use for diabetes complications were assessed using h...

We produced polyclonal antibody against human androgen receptor (hAR) by means of immunizing a rabbit with hAR fusion protein that was expressed in E. coli. In Western blot analysis, this antibody, NH27, recognized two protein bands at the site of 110 kDa and 107 kDa in androgen-independent human prostatic cancer cells (PC-3), transfected with full-length hAR expression plasmid DNA and at the s...

In-line metrologies currently used in the semiconductor industry are being challenged by the aggressive pace of device scaling and the adoption of novel device architectures. Metrology and process control of three-dimensional (3-D) high-aspect-ratio (HAR) features are becoming increasingly important and also challenging. In this paper we present a feasibility study of through-focus scanning opt...

Adaptive routing can improve network performance and fault-tolerance by providing multiple routing paths. However, the implementation complexity of adaptive routing can be signiicant, discouraging its use in commercial massively parallel systems. In this paper, we introduce Hierarchical Adaptive Routing (HAR), a new adaptive routing framework, which provides a uni-ed framework for simple and hi...

This paper discusses nascent work at Newcastle University’s Digital Interaction Group, focused upon gameifying feature selection for Human Activity Recognition (HAR). The goals are two fold; the first is to mitigate the current need for a HAR expert to develop a feature selection for novel activity recognition problems, whilst the second is to address the need for science communication of this ...