The genomic DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH) method has been widely used as a practical method for the determination of phylogenetic relationships between closely related biological strains. Traditional DDH methods have serious limitations including low reproducibility, a high background and a time-consuming procedure. The DDH method using a genome-probing microarray (GPM) has been recently develope...

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), jointly sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, previously known as National Space Development Agency, or NASDA), is the first coordinated international satellite mission to monitor and study tropical and subtropical rain systems (Simpson et al., 1988). A detail descriptio...

This paper focuses on the PID controller design based on the gain and phase margin (GPM) specifications for a given signalinput-signal-output plant. The basic ideas, techniques, and results are presented in language and notation familiar. Since the definitions of GPM equations are highly nonlinear, an analytical tuning method is not yet available. Approximation and fuzzy neural network (FNN) ap...

Das Geschäftsprozessmanagement (GPM) ist mittlerweile eine etablierte Forschungsdisziplin. Um zukünftig die Relevanz der erreichten Forschungsergebnisse zu sichern und eine zielgerichtete Weiterentwicklung zu ermöglichen, müssen die Methoden und Instrumente des GPM an die sich im ständigenWandel be®ndlichen Ansprüche ausWissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung angepasst werden. Darüber hinaus be...

The genome-probing microarray (GPM) was developed for quantitative, high-throughput monitoring of community dynamics in lactic acid bacteria (LAB) fermentation through the deposit of 149 microbial genomes as probes on a glass slide. Compared to oligonucleotide microarrays, the specificity of GPM was remarkably increased to a species-specific level. GPM possesses about 10- to 100-fold higher sen...

Neuroinflammation is an important component of many neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. Microglia and astrocytes play a key role in neuroinflammation. Activated glial cells under neuroinflammatory condition produce proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, nitric oxide (NO), and other neurotoxic mediators. Thus, it has been conventionally thought that the inhibition of such glial act...

The performance of Day-1 Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission (IMERG) and its predecessor, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis 3B42 Version 7 (3B42V7), was cross-evaluated using data from the best-available hourly gauge network over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). Analyses of three-hourly rainfall...

TRMM Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) satellite precipitation products have been utilized to quantify, forecast, or understand precipitation patterns, climate change, hydrologic models, and drought in numerous scientific investigations. The TMPA products recently went through a series of algorithm developments to enhance the accuracy and reliability of high-quality precipitation me...