The relationship between vision and action is a key element of both practices and conceptualizations of border surveillance in Europe. This article engages with what we call the 'operative vision' of surveillance at sea, specifically as performed by the border control apparatus in the Aegean. We analyse the political consequences of this operative vision by elaborating on three examples of fiel...

Clostridium thermocellum CelJ is a modular enzyme containing a family 30 carbohydrate-binding module (CBM) and a family 9 catalytic module at its N-terminal moiety. To investigate the functions of the CBM and the catalytic module, truncated derivatives of CelJ were constructed and characterized. Isothermal titration calorimetric studies showed that the association constants (K(a)) of the CBM po...

OBJECTIVE To compare children with confirmed bacterial meningitis (CBM) and those with culture- and latex-negative meningitis (CLN). METHODS Children 1 to 59 months of age admitted to three major referral hospitals in Guatemala City with clinical signs compatible with bacterial infections were evaluated prospectively between 1 October 1996 and 31 December 2005. Bacterial cultures and latex ag...

Curriculum-based measurement of reading (CBM-R) is used to estimate oral reading fluency. Unlike many traditional published tests, CBM-R materials are often comprised of 20 to 30 alternate forms/ passages. Historically, CBM-R assessment materials were sampled from curricular materials. Recent research has documented the potentially deleterious effects of poorly controlled alternate forms on CBM...

EG1 is a modular glycoside hydrolase family 5 endoglucanase from Volvariella volvacea consisting of an N-terminal carbohydrate-binding module (CBM1) and a catalytic domain (CD). The ratios of soluble to insoluble reducing sugar produced from filter paper after 8 and 24 h of exposure to EG1 were 6.66 and 8.56, respectively, suggesting that it is a processive endoglucanase. Three derivatives of E...

Mobile hosts utilize Mobile IP to retain connectivity while roaming in various networks, and acquire new IP addresses through the mechanisms Mobile IP supports. Today, one of the most demanding application requirements is QoS support. RSVP, the protocol implementation of the IETF Integrated Services Architecture, cannot handle hosts that change their IP addresses amidst a connection lifetime, a...

The value of low-energy ionic collisions for selective surface analysis is shown by the fact that reactive scattering allows differentiation of isomeric chemisorbates. Reactions of Cr•+ and Cr-containing cations at chlorobenzyl mercaptan (CBM) monolayers on Au surfaces show different reaction products, depending on the position of chlorine substitution in the phenyl ring. The chlorine atom abst...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Excessive use of psychoactive substances and resulting disorders are a major societal problem, and the most prevalent mental disorder in young men. Recent reviews have concluded that Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) shows promise as an intervention method in this field. As adolescence is a critical formative period, successful early intervention may be key in preventi...

The RICH detector in CBM shall provide electron identification together with the TRD detectors for the measurement of low-mass vector mesons and charmonium in the di-electron decay channel. Both observables are considered key probes for the study of compressed baryonic matter in heavy ion collisions. A RICH design based on first general considerations has been developed and studied in detector ...

Artificial neural network (ANN) based methods have been extensively investigated for equipment health condition prediction. However, effective condition based maintenance (CBM) optimization methods utilizing ANN prediction information are currently not available due to two key challenges: (1) ANN prediction models typically only give a single remaining life prediction value, and it is hard to q...