Order-disorder phase transitions induced by thermal annealing have been studied in the ordered-vacancy compound ZnGa2Se4 by means of Raman scattering and optical absorption measurements. The partially disordered as-grown sample with tetragonal defect stannite (DS) structure and I4¯2m space group has been subjected to controlled heating and cooling cycles. In situ Raman scattering measurements c...

Group I introns are proposed to have become mobile following the acquisition of open reading frames (ORFs) that encode highly specific DNA endonucleases. This proposal implies that intron ORFs could behave as autonomously mobile entities. This was supported by abundant circumstantial evidence but no experiment of ORF transfer from an ORF-containing intron to its ORF-less counterpart has been de...

Methods Two hundred and sixty-five normal male and female subjects whose ages ranged from 4 to 8o years were studied. Their age distribution stratified in three groups, up to I4 years, I5 to 29 years, 30 years and over, is shown in Table I. Each patient was assessed as normal on the basis of physical, radiological, and conventional 12 lead electrocardiographic examination. Three lead electrocar...

I4 4 9 University of Augsburg, D-86135 Augsburg Visitors: Universitätsstr. 12, 86159 Augsburg Phone: +49 821 598-4801 (Fax: -4899) University of Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth Visitors: F.-v.-Schiller-Str. 2a, 95444 Bayreuth Phone: +49 921 55-4710 (Fax: -844710) www.fim-rc.de Discussion Paper The Business Value of Process Flexibility – An Optimization Model and its Application in the Service Sector...

By using the topological structure synthesis theory and method based on POC (Position and Orientation Characteristic) equations,a novel 4-DOF 3T1R parallel manipulator (PM) with low coupling degree, 2PaRSS, is presented.First,the modeling and numerical solutions for forward and inverse position of the PM is established. Then, the workspace and rotation capacity of the PM are analyzed based on i...

We have previously reported a new synthesis of amides from esters and amines under microwave irradiation, offering much higher yields than those achieved with conventional heating [1]. We have now extended these studies to the ring closure of neat iminoesters I2, I3 and I4-I6 to give five- and six-membered ring lactams L5, L6 and larger lactams L7-L9 (where I means imine and L means lactam), re...

Recombinant Lactobacillus jensenii enolase fused to a C-terminal noncleavable His tag was expressed in Escherichia coli, purified and crystallized by sitting-drop vapor diffusion. A complete data set was collected to 3.25 A resolution. The crystals belonged to space group I4, with unit-cell parameters a=b=145.31, c=99.79 A. There were two protein subunits in the asymmetric unit, which gave a Ma...

corynebacteria9-i4}, BordeleZILz .Perlus'sisi5,i7), or even some protozoai8Ji9) has been reported. The mechanism of the action of these organisms is still a matter ef speculation and may be different by agentsS). But, in most cases, the action seems to reflect a gencrlaized stimulation of phagocytes and the activation of reticuloendothelial systemi]i2,20,2i>, resulting in the production of seru...

This report identifies those design principles for a (possibly new) query and transformation language for the Web supporting inference that are considered essential. Based upon these design principles an initial strawman is selected. Scenarios for querying the Semantic Web illustrate the design principles and their reflection in the initial strawman, i.e., a first draft of the query language to...