Peptides have the potential to serve as an alternative for petroleum-based polymers to support a sustainable society. However, they lack thermoplasticity, owing to their strong intermolecular interactions. In contrast, nylon is famous for its thermoplasticity and chemical resistance. Here, we synthesized peptides containing a nylon unit to modify their thermal properties by using papain-catalyz...

To evaluate an interlaced triple procedure that involved penetrating keratoplasty (PKP), extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) using diathermy capsulotomy, and nonopen-sky intraocular lens (IOL) implantation.This retrospective study involved data from 34 patients who were diagnosed with severe corneal opacities and cataracts. These patients were divided into an interlaced procedure group (21...

Nylon 6, 6 is regarded as tough and ductile materials since it exhibit high tensile elongation to break and high drop weight impact strengths. However, under conditions of stress concentration such as in the presence of sharp notches or cracks, polyamides exhibit brittle failure. This property, evaluated as notched Izod or Charpy impact tests, indicates that unmodified polyamides exhibit relati...

We provide a method for estimating the generalization error of a bag using out-of-bag estimates. In bagging, each predictor (single hypothesis) is learned from a bootstrap sample of the training examples; the output of a bag (a set of predictors) on an example is determined by voting. The outof-bag estimate is based on recording the votes of each predictor on those training examples omitted fro...

The fungal flora decomposing rice straw were investigated all over the soil of Sharkia Province, east of Nile Delta, Egypt, using the nylon net bag technique. Sixty-four straw-decomposing species belonging to 30 genera were isolated by the dilution plate method in ground rice straw-Czapek's agar medium at pH 6. The plates were incubated separately at 5℃, 25℃ and 45℃, respectively. Twenty nine s...

A nylon bar, with the head notched to make easy adequete contact with the short process of the malleus, was used for an acoustic probe. The first part of this paper deals with the acoustic properties of the nylon probe in comparison with those of a piano wire probe and a silver wire probe. The following results are obtained : (1) Clinically the most suitable length of the nylon probe was 8cm. (...

In traditional multi-instance (MI) learning, a single positive instance in a bag produces a positive class label. Hence, the learner knows how the bag’s class label depends on the labels of the instances in the bag and can explicitly use this information to solve the learning task. In this paper we investigate a generalized view of the MI problem where this simple assumption no longer holds. We...

1 case-controlled retrospective analysis compared the "two bag system," based on the euglycemic clamp technique, versus the traditional "one bag" method for intravenous diabetic ketoacidosis management. The two bag system can provide more cost-effective intravenous dextrose and fluid delivery and enhance quality of care by improving the efficiency, timeliness, and flexibility of overall control.

On-line studies of structural development during continuous drawing of nylon 66 fiber at different temperatures were carried out using synchrotron wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD). A unique image analysis method was introduced to analyze the two-dimensional (2D) WAXD patterns. The quantitative fractions of crystal, mesomorphic and amorphous phases were obtained. In this study, the Brill tran...