This paper studies how a well-informed partner strategically dissolves a partnership by proposing a buy-sell provision preemptively and deters an ill-informed partner from investigating the business. Our experimental evidence shows that the presence of an investigation cost has a negative effect on the responders’ payoff as well as on social surplus and allocation efficiency. However, the propo...

A video stream consists of a number of shots each of which has different boundary types such as cut, fade, and dissolve. Many previous approaches can find the cut boundary without difficulty. However, most of them often produce false alarms for the videos with large motions of camera and objects. In this paper, we demonstrate that the shape of the histogram difference between two successive col...

Gaseous acetylation of microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) was carried out to modify its chemical and physical properties and at the same time to preserve the morphology of cellulose microfibrils. Spectroscopic analysis of the samples was indicative of the success of the reaction as indicated by FT-IR and H-nmr studies. The chemically modified microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) were blended with hig...

Selegiline orally disintegrating tablet is a potent, selective and irreversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase type B. It is delivered in an innovative formulation that largely bypasses the gut and first-pass hepatic metabolism by allowing transbuccal absorption. Selegiline orally disintegrating tablet dissolves in the mouth within seconds and is rapidly absorbed directly into the systemic circ...

In this paper we propose automatic tools useful for the segmentation and indexing of video documents. These tools provide a rst structure of a video document, which is a sound starting point allowing further sophisticated and dedicated algorithms to be run on its parts. Apart from being automatic, these tools are very simple, fast and e cient, due to the use of morphological lters. Two di erent...

The interaction between enzymes and their substrates to form intermediate complexes has long been of interest. We have found that when pepsin and egg albumin are mixed in solution at about pH 4 a precipitate forms. The influence of protein and of ion concentrations on the amount of precipitate so formed has been studied. It has been found that the precipitate dissolves at higher ionic concentra...

Li-ion batteries dominate portable energy storage due to their exceptional power and energy characteristics. Yet, various consumer devices and electric vehicles demand higher specific energy and power with longer cycle life. Here we report a full-cell battery that contains a lithiated Si/graphene anode paired with a selenium disulfide (SeS2) cathode with high capacity and long-term stability. S...

For the first time, gliadin films with excellent strength and water stability have been developed without using any crosslinking agents. So far, it has not been possible to obtain water stable gliadin films even after crosslinking. In this research, a novel method of using aqueous urea and ethanol has been developed to obtain highly water stable gliadin films without using crosslinking chemical...

Streptokinase is a novel fibrionotic protein produced by several bacterial species. As a therapeutic, streptokinase can be used as thromboembolic disorders where it dissolves a blood clot by the activation of plasminogen to plasmin. In the present study, Bacillus licheniformis used for the production of streptokinase under soya bean as carbon source. The optimum day, pH and temperature were als...

Low concentrations (greater than or equal to 10(-7) M) of cytochalasin B reversibly inhibit the temperature-dependent gelation of actin by an actin-binding protein. The cytochalasin B concentrations which maximally inhibit actin gel formation are 10-fold lower than the concentrations which maximally impair phagocytosis by intact macrophages. Cytochalasin B also prevents the polymerization of mo...