Liquid livestock waste can be managed by separating liquid and solid fractions then treating each separately by applying best available technology, such as anaerobic digestion for the solid fraction. There is an increasing use of polyacrylamide (PAM) as a flocculant agent to improve solid-liquid separation. In the present work, the anaerobic toxicity of PAM residues and the optimal range of tot...

By offering images with high spatial resolution and unique optical absorption contrast, optical-resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) has gained increasing attention in biomedical research. Recent developments in OR-PAM have improved its imaging speed, but have to sacrifice either the detection sensitivity or field of view or both. We have developed a wide-field fast-scanning OR-PAM by u...

The robust tensor completion (RTC) problem, which aims to reconstruct a low-rank from partially observed contaminated by sparse tensor, has received increasing attention. In this paper, leveraging the superior expression of fully-connected network (FCTN) decomposition, we propose $\textbf{FCTN}$-based $\textbf{r}$obust $\textbf{c}$onvex optimization model (RC-FCTN) for RTC problem. Then, rigoro...

Interleukin-3 (IL-3) is one of the hematopoietic growth factors that regulates the growth and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells, thereby leading to the production of all the major blood cell types. The role of IL-3 in the regulation of pulmonary alveolar macrophage (PAM) production was investigated. IL-3 stimulated the proliferation and clonal growth of murine PAM with a dose-response c...

AIMS To compare the proliferative activity of intraepithelial melanocytes in primary acquired melanosis (PAM) without atypia and PAM with atypia by immunohistochemical staining for the Ki-67 antigen and the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). METHODS Formalin fixed, paraffin embedded sections from 35 archival specimens of PAM without atypia (n = 19) and with atypia (n = 16) were studie...

Background:Phyllanthus amarus (P. amarus) has been used as a medicinal plant for the prevention and treatment of chronic ailments such as diabetes, hepatitis, and cancer. Methods: The physicochemical properties, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of crude extracts and fractions from P. amarus were determined using spectrophotometric method. Results: The P. amarus methanol (PAM) extract had lo...

We have previously demonstrated that depletion of CD8+ T-cells by the use of a monoclonal anti-Lyt-2.2 antibody abolishes the curative effectiveness of low-dose melphalan (L-phenylalanine mustard; L-PAM) therapy for BALB/c mice bearing a large (greater than or equal to 20 mm) s.c. MOPC-315 tumor and extensive metastases (Mokyr et al., Cancer Res., 49: 4597-4606, 1989). Here we show that as a co...

Bifunctional peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase (PAM) catalyzes the copper-, ascorbate-, and O(2)-dependent cleavage of C-terminal glycine-extended peptides and N-acylglycines to the corresponding amides and glyoxylate. The alpha-amidated peptides and the long-chain acylamides are hormones in humans and other mammals. Bile acid glycine conjugates are also substrates for PAM leading t...

Simplifying the programming models is paramount to the success of reconfigurable computing. We apply the principles of object-oriented programming to the design of stream architectures for reconfigurable computing. The resulting tool, StReAm, is a domain specific compiler on top of the object-oriented module generation environment PAM-Blox. Combining module generation with a high-level programm...

We present some quantitative performance measurements for the computing power of Programmable Active Memories (PAM), as introduced by [BRV89]. Based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology, the PAM is a universal hardware co-processor closely coupled to a standard host computer. The PAM can speed up many critical software applications running on the host, by executing part of the com...