Frameworks are developed to capture the recurring design practices in terms of skeletons of software subsystems/ systems. They are designed ‘abstract’ and ‘incomplete’ and are designed with predefined points of variability, known as hot spots, to be customized later at the time of framework reuse. Frameworks are reusable entities thus demand stricter and rigorous testing in comparison to one-ti...

The Jacksonburg-Stringtown field was discovered in 1895. It is located on the western flank of the Burchfield syncline, in southeastern Wetzel, eastern Tyler, and northwestern Doddridge counties, West Virginia. Over 500 wells were drilled in the field between 1 897 and 190 1 ; most were plugged by 19 10. Primary recovery has been estimated to lie between 1454 and 1590 barrels of oil per acre. P...

A survey of polypeptides encoded by RNA isolated from the submandibular glands of members of the Muridae (species of Mus and Rattus), in conjunction with cDNA cloning, has identified a class of salivary proteins that we term "spot proteins." Although clearly homologous, these proteins show dramatic differences between species in their polypeptide length. On the basis of the sequence of the corr...

Some students of futures markets believe that the volatility of futures prices increases as the futures contract nears maturity (see Telser, 1956; Segall, 1956; and Samuelson, 1965). Samuelson offers an explanation for the existence of the variability effect as reviewed in Section 1 of the paper. His hypothesis about the behavior of futures prices requires that the stochastic process characteri...

A laser diffraction-induced dielectrophoresis (DEP) phenomenon for the patterning and manipulation of individual HepG2 cells and polystyrene beads via positive/negative DEP forces is reported in this paper. The optoelectronic substrate was fabricated using an organic photoconductive material, TiOPc, via a spin-coating process on an indium tin oxide glass surface. A piece of square aperture arra...

Petal spots are widespread in angiosperms and are often implicated in pollinator attraction. Clarkia gracilis petals each have a single red-purple spot that contrasts against a pink background. The position and presence of spots in C. gracilis are determined by the epistatic interaction of alleles at two as yet unidentified loci. We used HPLC to identify the different pigments produced in the p...

The interaction of Obg (Spo0B-associated GTP-binding protein) GTPase and SpoT, which is a bifunctional ppGpp (guanosine 3',5'-bispyrophosphate) hydrolase/synthetase, is vital for the modulation of intracellular ppGpp levels during bacterial responses to environmental cues. It has been recently reported that the ppGpp level is also inducible by various stresses in the chloroplasts of plant cells...

Tissue surface shape and reflectance spectra provide rich intraoperative information useful in surgical guidance. We propose a hybrid system which displays an endoscopic image with a fast joint inspection of tissue surface shape using structured light (SL) and hyperspectral imaging (HSI). For SL a miniature fibre probe is used to project a coloured spot pattern onto the tissue surface. In HSI m...

Several tests were performed on commercially used orchard sprayers with different types of air discharge systems (conventional, cross flow, directional spouts). The measurements were conducted in a hangar on an apple orchard planted in containers. Pure tab water and water with minerals (Mg, Mn, Zn) were sprayed. Water sensitive paper and blotting paper were put in and around the trees to evalua...

In this thesis, we asymptotically construct steady-state localized spot solutions to the Brusselator reaction-diffusion system in the semi-strong interaction regime characterized by an asymptotically large diffusivity ratio. We consider two distinct settings: a periodic pattern of localized spots in R2 concentrating at lattice points of a Bravais lattice, and multi-spot solutions that concentra...