Phthalate esters are toxic organic contaminants which can enter into the environment through various industrial processes. In this study, a 6-liter fixed film bioreactor was used to examine biodegradation of phthalic acid (PA) and dimethyl phthalate (DMP) in synthetic wastewater. Effect on the process of two operating factors, namely hydraulic retention time (HRT) (at four levels ranging betwee...

Accurate and real-time tracking of the orientation or attitude of rigid bodies has traditional applications in robotics, aerospace, underwater vehicles, human body motion capture, etc. Towards human body motion capture, especially wearable devices, the use of a longer time has always been a challenge for several weeks or several months continuously, so a low-cost chip and a low computational co...

With the fast development of data collection techniques, a huge amount of complex multi-modal data are generated, shared and stored on the Internet. The burden of extracting multi-modal features for test instances in data analysis becomes the main fact that hurts the efficiency of prediction. In this paper, in order to reduce the modal extraction cost in serialized classification system, we pro...

Linopirdine (3,3-bis(4-pyridinylmethyl)-1-phenylindolin-2-one, DUP996) is an extensively studied representative of a class of cognition enhancing compounds that increase the evoked release of neurotransmitters. Recent studies suggest that these agents act through the blockade of specific K+ channels. We have recently identified more potent anthracenone analogs of linopirdine: 10,10-bis(4-pyridi...

This paper proposes an ultrafast scalable embedded image compression scheme based on discrete cosine transform. It is designed for general network architecture that guarantees maximum end-to-end delay (EED), in particular the Distributed Multimedia Plays (DMP) architecture. DMP is designed to enable people to perform delay-sensitive real-time collaboration from remote places via their own colla...

The Caenorhabditis elegans defecation motor program (DMP) is a highly coordinated rhythmic behavior that requires two GABAergic neurons that synapse onto the enteric muscles. One class of DMP mutants, called anterior body wall muscle contraction and expulsion defective (aex) mutants, exhibits similar defects to those caused by the loss of these two neurons. Here, we demonstrate that aex-2 encod...

Stockholm’s recognition of the combined contributions of Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen, and Christopher Pissarides brought immense pleasure and satisfaction to the macro-labor research community. The DMP model honored by the prize is a central component of modern macroeconomics. Given the current high unemployment rates in most advanced economies, it seems natural to focus my remarks about the ...

MOTIVATION Data Mining Prediction (DMP) is a novel approach to predicting protein functional class from sequence. DMP works even in the absence of a homologous protein of known function. We investigate the utility of different ways of representing protein sequence in DMP (residue frequencies, phylogeny, predicted structure) using the Escherichia coli genome as a model. RESULTS Using the diffe...

The purpose of the present study was to compare the effects of N-dimethyl propranolol (DMP), the quaternary derivative of propranolol, and propranolol on the transmural distribution (endo/epi) of coronary blood flow in normal and ischemic regions of the myocardium. The distribution of blood flow between subendocardium and subepicardium of a nonischemic region and one distal to a severe left cli...

There is an ongoing debate about equity and equality in health care, and whether immigrants benefit equally from services as the non-immigrant population. The study focuses on benefits from and adherence to the diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM 2) disease management program (DMP) among Turkish immigrants in Germany. So far, it has not been researched whether this group benefits from enrollment in th...