The gas-phase H/D exchange reactions of arginine (R) and arginine-containing di- and tri-peptide (gly-arg (GR), arg-gly (RG), gly-gly-arg (GGR), gly-arg-gly (GRG) and arg-gly-gly (RGG)) [M + H]+ ions with deuterated ammonia (ND3) were investigated by using Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR), ion mobility-mass spectrometry (IM-MS), ab initio and density function...

A nite-buuered banyan network analysis technique designed to model networks at high traac loads is presented. The technique specially models two states of the network queues: queue empty and queue congested (roughly, zero or one slots free). A congested queue tends to stay congested because packets bound for the queue accumulate in the previous stage. The expected duration of this state is comp...

This paper considers a discrete-time queue with gated priority. Low priority customers arrive at the first queue at the gate in batches according to a batch Bernoulli process (BBP). When the gate opens, all low priority customers at the first queue move to the second queue at a single server. On the other hand, high priority customers directly join the second queue upon arrival. The arrival pro...

Using behavioral experiments, we examined the impact of dispensability of effort and salience of feedback on worker productivity and how they can be managed via queueing design. We considered two queue design features: queue structure that can either be parallel queues (multiple queues with a dedicated server per queue) or a single queue (a single pooled queue served by multiple providers); and...

In this paper we study a two-queue polling model with zero switch-over times and k-limited service (serve at most ki customers during one visit period to queue i , i = 1, 2) in each queue. The arrival processes at the two queues are Poisson, and the service times are exponentially distributed. By increasing the arrival intensities until one of the queues becomes critically loaded, we derive exa...

In a cell-free system from neutrophil cytosol GTP(&ggr ;)S can induce an increase in the number of free filament barbed ends and massive actin polymerisation and cross-linking. GTP(&ggr ;)S stimulation was susceptible to an excess of GDP, but not Bordetella pertussis toxin and could not be mimicked by aluminium fluoride, myristoylated GTPgammaS.Gialpha2 or Gbeta1gamma2 subunits of trimeric G pr...