Materials and Methods The enzyme pyrophosphate dependent phosphofructokinasc (PFP), considered to play an important role in sucrosc Forwal-cl ~ ~ r i m c ~ BI was designed l.rom 3 rcgion of high metabolism i n plants, comprises two protein subunits encodhomology idcntil'icd by comparison ol. know11 PFP gcnc cd by separate genes. Part of the P-subunit gene was used as sequences f'rom castor bean...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine whether elbow ultrasound findings of the posterior fat pad (PFP) are present in patients with diagnosis of radial head subluxation (RHS). METHODS This was a prospective study of children presenting to an urban pediatric emergency department diagnosed clinically with RHS. Physicians received a 1-hour training session on musculoskeletal ultrasoun...

STUDY DESIGN Controlled laboratory study using a cross-sectional design. OBJECTIVES To compare patellofemoral joint kinematics, femoral rotation, and patella rotation between females with patellofemoral pain (PFP) and pain-free controls using weight-bearing kinematic magnetic resonance imaging. BACKGROUND Recently, it has been recognized that patellofemoral malalignment may be the result of...

The well-known artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is one of the most recently introduced swarm-based algorithms. The ABC system combines both local and global search methods in an attempt to balance exploration and exploitation processes, and hopefully, it can be successfully applied to solve real-world problems. In the past, the Science Magazine named the protein folding problem (PFP) as on...

The part families with precedence constraints problem (PFP) arises in industry, when flexible manufacturing systems are designed within a group technology approach. The aim of this problem is to arrange parts into families by imposing capacity constraints, concerning both the number of parts and processing times, besides precedence constraints in the building of families. Mixed binary linear pr...

INTRODUCTION It has been suggested that abnormal lower extremity kinematics during running are related to patellofemoral pain (PFP). Specifically, during the first half of stance when the knee is loaded, excessive internal rotation of the femur may result in lateral patellae maltracking [1,2]. Similarly, the patellofemoral joint may also be influenced by excessive knee valgus, which may be part...

To determine the role of perforin-mediated cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) effector function in immune regulation, we studied a well-characterized mouse model of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Induction of acute GVHD using perforin-deficient donor T cells (pfp-->F1) initially resulted in features of acute GVHD, e.g., engraftment of both donor CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells, upregulation of Fas and F...

OBJECTIVES Describe proportions of individuals with patellofemoral pain (PFP) with an unfavourable recovery over 12 months; identify clinical predictors of poor recovery at 3 and 12 months; and determine baseline values of predictors that identify those with poor 12-month prognosis. METHODS An observational analysis utilised data from 310 individuals with PFP enrolled in two randomised clinic...

The impetus for the recent development and emergence of automated function prediction methods is an exponentially growing flood of new experimental data, the interpretation of which is hindered by a shortage of reliable annotations for proteins that lack experimental characterization or significant homologs in current databases. Here we introduce PFP, an automated function prediction server tha...

The IF processing block is by far the most computationally intensive part of wide-band receivers in software radios. From a signal processing point of view, digital filtering is the main task in IF processing. Infinite precision filters require complicated digital circuits due to coefficient multiplication. This paper presents an efficient method to implement pulse shaping filters for GSM recei...