Using the classical emulsified system and the monomolecular film technique, the substrate specificity of recombinant Gibberella zeae lipase (rGZEL) that originates from Gibberella zeae was characterized in detail. Under the emulsified reaction system, both phospholipase and glycolipid hydrolytic activities were observed, except for the predominant lipase activity. The optimum conditions for dif...

Contra-rotating propellers have renewed interest from the naval architecture community, because of the recent development of electric propulsion drives and podded propulsors. Contrarotating propulsion systems have the hydrodynamic advantages of recovering part of the slipstream rotational energy which would otherwise be lost utilizing a conventional screw propeller system. The application of th...

Will the US Navy take producibility seriously in the next surface combatant? It is not easy to challenge yesterday's design paradigms and standards. Combatant ship designers have been conditioned to optimize performance and minimize risk. Producibility enhancements can cut cost, but some compromise in performance is expected, and change implies risk. A rational approach to producibility require...

A novel beamforming (BF) system that employs two switched beam antennas (SBAs) at both ends of the wireless link in an indoor double-directional radio channel (DDRC) is proposed. The distributed directivity gain (DDG) and beam pattern correlation in DDRC are calculated. The channel capacity of the BF system is obtained from an analytical model. Using the channel capacity and outage capacity as ...

We report here the first complete transcriptome analysis of the dorsal (dDG) and ventral dentate gyrus (vDG) of a rat epilepsy model presenting a hippocampal lesion with a strict resemblance to classical hippocampal sclerosis (HS). We collected the dDG and vDG by laser microdissection 15 days after electrical stimulation and performed high-throughput RNA-sequencing. There were many differential...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes both an acute loss of tissue and a progressive injury through reactive processes such as excitotoxicity and inflammation. These processes may worsen neural dysfunction by altering neuronal circuitry beyond the focally-damaged tissue. One means of circuit alteration may involve dendritic spines, micron-sized protuberances of dendritic membrane that support mos...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and the safety of Sanyak pharmacopuncture therapy for the treatment of peripheral facial paralysis patients. METHODS This study was a retrospective investigation of a total of 70 patients who were inpatients of the Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University between January 1, 2011, and May 31, 2012, and who were diagnosed as having per...

A number of analytical methods for constituents commonly measured in distillers dried grains (DDG) are practiced in laboratories serving the agricultural sector. A large interlaboratory variability among results has been observed in the industry. Methods for moisture, crude fat, and crude fiber are empirical, thus part of this variability can be attributed to the use of different methods of ana...

Modern superscalar architectures with dynamic scheduling and register renaming capabilities have introduced subtle but important changes into the tradeoffs between compile-time register allocation and instruction scheduling. In particular, it is perhaps not wise to increase the degree of parallelism of the static instruction schedule at the expense of excessive register pressure which may resul...

Due to increased production of ethanol, abundance of distillers grains (DG) is increasing. Steers (n = 176) were assigned to 1 of 5 treatment groups: steam-flaked corn (SFC), 10% dry DG (DDG), 10% wet DG (WDG), 20% WDG, or 30% WDG. The objectives were to determine the effects of feeding greater amounts of WDG, or DDG on meat quality. Steaks, 2.54 cm, were cut from strip loins and identified for...