Rapid Manufacturing (RM) is increasingly becoming a viable manufacturing process due to dramatic advantages that are achievable in the area of design complexity. Through the exploration of the design freedom, this paper introduces the concept of manufacturing textiles for potential smart and high performance textile applications. This paper discusses the current limitations associated with the ...

In the 2002-2003 season, influenza B virus Victoria strains were epidemic after a 6-year absence in Kobe City, Japan. They reacted poorly to the immune ferret sera prepared for use against the previous strain. An amino acid substitution in the HA1 region caused them to acquire an N-linked glycosylation site.

Seventy-three B/Victoria group strains isolated in the 1996-1997 influenza season were divided into three groups according to the degree of reactivity to monoclonal antibody 8E6. Analysis of nucleotide sequences of the HA1 region clarified that single amino acid substitutions were responsible for the difference in reactivity to 8E6.

One-hundred five influenza B-positive specimens obtained from southeast Asia in 2002 were categorized on the basis of DNA sequencing of HA1 gene as well as real-time PCR analysis of the NA gene. Phylogenetic analysis of the HA1 gene sequences showed that the majority of the viruses (96.2%) belonged to the B/Victoria/2/87 lineage, while a smaller percentage of the viruses (3.8%) belonged to the ...

The ideal of a Segre variety P1 × · · · × Pt ↪→ P(n1+1)···(nt+1)−1 is generated by the 2-minors of a generic hypermatrix of indeterminates (see [Ha1] and [Gr]). We extend this result to the case of SegreVeronese varieties. The main tool is the concept of “weak generic hypermatrix” which allows us to treat also the case of projection of Veronese surfaces from a set of general points and of Veron...

MICHAEL J. RENNIE,* RICHARD H. T. EDWARDS,* C. T. MERVYN DAVIES,? STEPHEN KRYWAWYCH,* DAVID HALLIDAYJ JOHN C. WATERLOW$ and DAVID J. MILLWARD$ *Department of Human Metabolism, University Colrege London Medical School, London W C l E SJJ, U.K., ?Medical Research Council Environmental Physiology Unit and $Department of Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London W C l ...

In this paper we study an elliptic variational problem regarding the $p$-fractional Laplacian in $\mathbb{R}^N$ on basis of recent result \cite{Ha1}, which generalizes nice work \cite{AT,AP,XZR1}, and then give some sufficient conditions under weak solutions to above are continuous $\mathbb{R}^N$. final appendix correct proofs both \cite[Lemma 10]{PXZ1} A.6]{PXZ} for $1<p<2$.

Consumers Union assessed the financial appreciation of manufactured-housing units, by examining the relative appreciation rates of manufactured housing and site-built housing, as well as the factors affecting the appreciation rate of manufactured housing. Our analysis includes an extensive literature review of previous work in the field, as well as primary research using data from the 1985–1999...

PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of continuous manufacturing process improvements on glistening formation in AcrySof hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lenses (IOLs) by comparing lenses manufactured in 2003 with lenses manufactured in 2012. METHODS Glistenings were experimentally created as aqueous-filled microvacuoles utilizing an accelerated laboratory method by immersing the lens in water at 45...