The joint general model of reliability and availability of complex technical systems in variable operation conditions linking a semi-markov modeling of the system operation processes with a multi-state approach to system reliability and availability analysis and linear programming considered in the paper Part 1 are applied in maritime industry to reliability, risk and availability optimization ...

Galway, Ireland In situ Hybridization to Evaluate the Wound Healing Process of a Bilayered Living CellBased Construct (Apligraf®) in a Nude Mice Model Cecile F. Rousseau, PhD and Aurelie Pagnon-Minot, PhD 2 ; Sylviane Guerret, PhD; Daniel J. Hartmann, PhD ; Vincent Ronfard, PhD Corresponding Author: [email protected] 1 Organogenesis Inc., 150 Dan Road, Canton, MA 02021, USA; 2 University Cla...

Jennifer Selinski, Andreas Hartmann, Adrian Kordes, Gabriele Deckers-Hebestreit, James Whelan, and Renate Scheibe Division of Plant Physiology, Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Division of Microbiology, Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrueck, D-49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Department of Animal, Plant, and Soil Science, Austra...

Polster and Steinke [Result. Math., 46 (2004), 103–122] determined the possible Kleinewillinghöfer types of flat Laguerre planes. These types reflect transitivity properties of groups of certain central automorphisms. We exclude three more types from the list given there with respect to Laguerre homotheties. This yields a complete determination of all possible single types with respect to Lague...

In a play about Galileo, Bertold Brecht has one of his characters comment bitterly after Galileo's recantation that "unhappy is a land that breeds no heroes." The reply by Galileo is "unhappy is a land that needs heroes." This exchange was brought to mind by David Hartmann's comments [1] on Ralph Nader's call for whistle blowinc engineers. Hartmann points out the risks incurred by any engineer ...

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In the design of non-linear optical chromophores, conjugation pathways in multi-branched dyes are known to influence heavily their properties. Herein, we investigate this strategy for two-photon (2P) responsive photolabile protecting groups (PPG) by assembling via a triphenylamine core extended coumarinylmethyl derivatives. The experimental study reveals an enhancement 2P absorption tri-branche...

Neuroimaging pipelines are known to generate different results depending on the computing platform where they are compiled and executed. We quantify these differences for brain tissue classification, fMRI analysis, and cortical thickness (CT) extraction, using three of the main neuroimaging packages (FSL, Freesurfer and CIVET) and different versions of GNU/Linux. We also identify some causes of...

The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies has provided microbial ecologists with an efficient approach to assess bacterial diversity at an unseen depth, particularly with the recent advances in the Illumina MiSeq sequencing platform. However, analyzing such high-throughput data is posing important computational challenges, requiring specialized bioinformatics solutions at diffe...

Linear algebra operations are at the core of many Machine Learning (ML) programs. At the same time, a considerable amount of the effort for solving data analytics problems is spent in data preparation. As a result, end-toend ML pipelines often consist of (i) relational operators used for joining the input data, (ii) user defined functions used for feature extraction and vectorization, and (iii)...