This work addresses the problem of designing Turbo odes for non-uniform binary memoryless or independent and identi ally distributed (i.i.d.) sour es over noisy hannels. The extrinsi information in the de oder is modi ed to exploit the sour e redundan y in the form of non-uniformity; furthermore, the onstituent en oder stru ture is optimized for the onsidered non-uniform i.i.d. sour e to furthe...

Currently there are significant amounts of natural gas that cannot be produced and treated to meet pipeline specifications, because that would not be economically viable. This work investigates a bench scale multistage fluidized bed (MSFB) with shallow beds for sour gas removal from natural gas using a commercially available supported amine sorbent. A MSFB is regarded as a promising adsorber ty...

How do invasive pests affect interactions between members of pre-existing agrosystems? The invasive pest Drosophila suzukii is suspected to be involved in the aetiology of sour rot, a grapevine disease that otherwise develops following Drosophila melanogaster infestation of wounded berries. We combined field observations with laboratory assays to disentangle the relative roles of both Drosophil...

Sour taste is mediated by acids with the degree of sourness a function of proton concentration. Recently, several members of the acid-sensing ion channel subfamily (ASICs) were cloned from taste cells and proposed to mediate sour taste. However, it is not known whether sour responses in taste cells resemble the responses mediated by ASICs. Using the whole cell patch-clamp technique and Na(+) im...

This study examines the effects of a sour bolus (50% lemon juice, 50% barium liquid) on pharyngeal swallow measures in two groups of patients with neurogenic dysphagia. Group 1 consisted of 19 patients who had suffered at least one stroke. Group 2 consisted of 8 patients with dysphagia related to other neurogenic etiologies. All patients were selected because they exhibited delays in the onset ...

In this study the sensing capabilities of a combination of metals and conducting polymer electrodes for drinking water and dissolved tastants using an AC-impedance mode in frequency range 10 to 10 Hz at 0.1 V potential has been carried out. Classification of seven different bottled and municipal drinking water samples along with various tastants dissolved in DI water (DI water) for KCl (5mM) (s...

Alternaria brown spot is a serious disease of fruit and foliage of citrus. This disease caused by Alternaria alternata and causes serious economical losses on susceptible cultivars in Iran. In this research, susceptibility of seven citrus cultivars including Fortune, Orlando tangelo, Mineola tangelo, Page, Clementine, Sour orange and Sweet orange (Thomson) fruits to A. alternata was investigate...

Sour cassava starch (polvilho azedo) is a chemically and enzymatically modified starch. It is used in traditional products in bread-making because of its expansion property, which forms a light, alveolar structure and dismisses the use of any chemical or biological ferment. The present work was performed with the objective of suggest some easy assay procedures to predict sour cassava starch exp...

Flavanones constitute the majority of flavonoids in citrus fruits such as sweet (Citrus sinensis) and sour oranges (C. aurantium) and their near relatives—tangerines/mandarins (C. reticulata), tangors and tangelos. The relevant chemical analytic literature was searched, abstracted, documented, standardized, examined for quality, enumerated, and summarized in a database for these citrus flavanon...

The paper addresses the analysis of a single multiplexing node in ATM networks. It presents analyti al models for evaluating the performan e parameters of a multiplexer that has N identi al ON-OFF type input sour es and an output hannel with nite bu er. The hannel speed is assumed to be an integer times of the sour e speed in ON state. A two dimensional Dis rete Time Markov Chain is introdu ed ...