BACKGROUND The expression and activity of the different Saccharomyces cerevisiae hexose uptake systems (Hxt) and the kinetics of glucose uptake are considered essential to industrial alcoholic fermentation performance. However, the dynamics of glucose uptake kinetics during the different stages of fermentation, depending on glucose and nitrogen availability, is very poorly characterized. The ob...

System on Chip (SOC) designs offer integrated solutions to existing design tribulations in areas which necessitate outsized computation and restriction in certain area. But the performance of these has been sluggish due to the restriction of the common bus architecture espoused by these systems and thereby low processing speeds. This has been the main drawback for scalability in terms of comput...

Process control loops undergo a variety of conditions during their routine operation such as setpoint changes, disturbances, slow drifts, etc. in addition to normal operation. Monitoring the control performance of these loops is an important activity to ensure satisfactory operation, reduce variability and equipment wear, and detect problems such as oscillating behavior, sluggish or out-of-cont...

Twelve human volunteers were studied to determine the effect of eye surface cooling on the parameters of the light reflex. Surface cooling resulted in a 38% decrease in the maximum constriction velocity and a 36% decrease in the maximum redilation velocity. These changes were thought to be the result of a "sluggish" response of the pupillary sphincter.

This paper considers an economy using a technology that adds to a stock of pollution. Examples that come to mind are SO2-emissions from burning coal accumulating in the soil and CO2-emissions from fossil-energy use which are retained in the atmosphere. The stock of pollutants is subject to natural decay, albeit not necessarily of the simple often assumed linear type. In addition, a clean or so-...

Current research suggests that Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) is a distinct attentional disorder from Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that is characterized by a hypoactive, sluggish behavior pattern (Barkley, 2014). Further, unlike ADHD, SCT represents a more passive form of inattention that does not overly disrupt classroom learning goals. Thus children with SCT may be ‘falling...

MEDICAL JOURNAL Political dissent and "sluggish" schizophrenia in the Soviet Union "It is considered by some governments that if a person does not agree with the views of the state, his sanity must be called into question. Extensive documentation exists on the misuse of psychiatry and psychiatric drugs in the Soviet Union."' Amnesty International, Bloch and Reddaway, and the International Assoc...