Recently, there have been reports that the chirally restored phase of QCD is effectively symmetric under U (N f)×U (N f) rather than SU (N f)×SU (N f). We supplement their argument by including the contributions from topologi-cally nontrivial gauge field configurations and discuss how the conclusions are modified. General statements are made concerning the particle spectrum of QCD with light N ...

Scavenger receptors on sinusoidal liver endothelial cells (SECs) eliminate potentially harmful modified proteins circulating through the liver. It was shown recently that aldehyde-modified proteins bind to scavenger receptors and are associated with the development/progression of alcoholic liver diseases. For these studies, rat livers were perfused in situ with 125I-formaldehyde-bovine serum al...

We report herein the synthesis and physical and physiological characterization of fully modified 2'-modified-4'-thioRNAs, i.e. 2'-fluoro-4'-thioRNA (F-SRNA) and 2'-O-Me-4'-thioRNA (Me-SRNA), which can be considered as a hybrid chemical modification based on 2'-modified oligonucleotides (ONs) and 4'-thioRNA (SRNA). In its hybridization with a complementary RNA, F-SRNA (15mer) showed the highest ...

Recall the greedy algorithm for non-metric facility location that was done in Lecture 4, which was obtained by formulating the problem as set cover. In this section we present a modified greedy algorithm for the metric facility location problem that achieves a constant approximation ratio. Let the facility location instance consist of clients D, facilities F , metric d on D ∪ F , and facility o...

Alkaloid-modified, voltage-dependent sodium channels from lobster walking leg nerves were studied in planar neutral lipid bilayers. In symmetrical 0.5 M NaCl the single channel conductance of veratridine (VTD) (10 pS) was less than that of batrachotoxin (BTX) (16 pS) modified channels. At positive potentials, VTD- but not BTX-modified channels remained open at a flickery substate. VTD-modified ...

    The multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanosheets were functionalized with 2-hydroxymethyl thiophene (CNT-f-COOTh) and 2-thiophene acetic acid (rGO-f-TAA) and grafted with poly(3-dodecylthiophene) (CNT-g-PDDT and rGO-g-PDDT) to manipulate the orientation and patterning of crystallized regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). Distinct nano-hybrid structu...

A couple of years later, Carlitz [6] refined this theorem a little basically by dropping the conditions that f(0) = 0 and f(1) = 1 and by allowing f(a)−f(b) a−b to always be a square or always be a nonsquare, whenever a 6= b. He then accordingly modified the conclusion to f(x) = ax + b with a being a square or nonsquare according to which f(a)−f(b) a−b was. Now a change of notation. Let F = GF ...

A linearly convergent iterative algorithm that approximates the rank-1 convex envelope f of a given function f : Rn×m → R, i.e. the largest function below f which is convex along all rank-1 lines, is established. The proposed algorithm is a modified version of an approximation scheme due to Dolzmann and Walkington. Mathematics Subject Classification. 65K10, 74G15, 74G65, 74N99. Received: May 27...

The detection of genetically modified (GM) materials in food and feed products is a complex multi-step analytical process invoking screening, identification, and often quantification of the genetically modified organisms (GMO) present in a sample. "Combinatory qPCR SYBRGreen screening" (CoSYPS) is a matrix-based approach for determining the presence of GM plant materials in products. The CoSYPS...