We present recent measurements by SLD of the branching fractions of B hadrons to states with 0 and 2 open charm hadrons, BR 0D and BR 2D , from which both the average charm yield per B decay, N c and the inclusive branching ratio into rare modes not containing any charmed hadrons, BR rare can be derived. We also present a new measurement of the B d mixing frequency ∆m d and limits on the B s mi...

Pre-Confucian China Although there is evidence of advanced civilization in China in very ancient times, actual recorded history begins with the Shang dynasty, in the fourteenth century B.C.E. Available evidence indicates that this was an advanced civilization. For example, art from this period is quite sophisticated, even according to modern standards. This dynasty ended with the invasion by mo...

Gastric cancer exhibits a poor prognosis and is the third most common cause of cancer death worldwide. Chemotherapy of metastatic gastric cancer is based on combinations of platinum drugs and fluoropyrimidines, with added agents. Oxoplatin is a stable oral platinum(IV) prodrug which is converted to a highly active tetrachlorido(IV) complex under acidic conditions. In the present work, we studie...

In the 1939 movie, "The Wizard of Oz," Dorothy (played by Judy Garland) has many adventures while seeking to return home from the fantasy dream world of Oz. At the end of the movie, she finds out from the good witch of the North that she always had it in her own power to return home by merely clicking together the heels of her magical ruby slippers. The search for synergy, especially with in vi...

We describe a program for the analysis of protein secondary structure that operates with the Sequence Analysis Software Package of the University of Wisconsin Genetics Computer Group (UWGCG). The program produces both graphic and printed output. Structure prediction using the Chou and Fasman and Robson et al methods, and hydropathy analysis by the method of Kyte and Doolittle are included along...

The neural network method was applied to the prediction of the content of protein secondary structure elements, including alpha-helix, beta-strand, beta-bridge, 3(10)-helix, pi-helix, H-bonded turn, bend, and random coil. The "pair-coupled amino acid composition" originally proposed by K. C. Chou [J Protein Chem 1999, 18, 473] was adopted as the input. Self-consistency and independent-dataset t...

Membrane protein plays an important role in some biochemical process such as signal transduction, transmembrane transport, etc. Membrane proteins are usually classified into five types [Chou, K.C., Elrod, D.W., 1999. Prediction of membrane protein types and subcellular locations. Proteins: Struct. Funct. Genet. 34, 137-153] or six types [Chou, K.C., Cai, Y.D., 2005. J. Chem. Inf. Modelling 45, ...

Herbiflata gen. nov., the second genus in the tribe Nephesini from China, is erected with Hilavrita xizangensis Chou et Lu, 1981 as its type species-Herbiflata xizangensis (Chou et Lu, 1981) comb. nov. This new genus resembles Hilavrita Distant, 1906 but can be differentiated by the following characters: vertex obtusely pointed; tegmen not spotted, with orange margin; apical angle of tegmen bro...

CHENG-WEI CHOU, PING-CHIANG CHOU, JEAN-JOSEPH CHRISTOPHE, ADRIEN COUËTOUX, PIERRE DE FREMINVILLE, NICOLAS GALICHET, CHANG-SHING LEE, JIALIN LIU, DAVID L. SAINT-PIERRE, MICHÈLE SEBAG, OLIVIER TEYTAUD, MEI-HUI WANG, LI-WEN WU AND SHI-JIM YEN Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Dong Hwa University Hualien, 974 Taiwan Department of Computer Science and Information En...