Abstract In industry and architecture, real-time complete measurement of structures has become a research frontier since it is directly related to the safety life property. Optical fibers have potential monitor constructions due advantages such as small size, anti-electromagnetic interference, etc. However, existing on optical fiber sensors pays attention sensing itself ignores layout fibers. A...

Sib pair-selection strategies, designed to identify the most informative sib pairs in order to detect a quantitative-trait locus (QTL), give rise to a missing-data problem in genetic covariance-structure modeling of QTL effects. After selection, phenotypic data are available for all sibs, but marker data-and, consequently, the identity-by-descent (IBD) probabilities-are available only in select...

Human airway trypsin-like protease (HAT) is a serine protease found in sputum of patients with chronic airway diseases and is an agonist of protease-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2). Results from this study show that HAT treatment also enhances mucus production by the airway epithelial cell line NCI-H292 in vitro. Histologic examination showed that HAT enhances mucous glycoconjugate synthesis, wher...