A great mystery in the mechanism of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) and many other lipolytic enzymes is the "interfacial activation" induced by micellar but not monomeric substrates. Equally mysterious is the lack of interfacial activation in bee venom PLA2, as opposed to PLA2s from pancreas and other sources. We have probed these problems using the conformationally restricted short-chain cyclopentano-...

Corrosion rate is known to be a factor affecting the distribution of current in cathodic protection (CP) applications. This paper demonstrates effect different corrosion rates embedded steel concrete on polarization and during CP application. A specimen was cast with separate bars at fixed distance from centralised anode. The are sections containing admixed chloride concentrations create varyin...

In the book Boolean Function Complexity by Stasys Jukna [7], two lower bound techniques for Tree-like Cutting Plane proofs (henceforth, “Tree-CP proofs”) using Karchmer-Widgerson type communication games (henceforth, “KW games”) are presented: The first, applicable to Tree-CP proofs with bounded coefficients, translates Ω(t) deterministic lower bounds on KW games to 2 logn) lower bounds on Tree...

The creep response in the air of commercially pure titanium was investigated at 550, 600, and 650 °C to assess effect oxidation on mechanical response. Experiments demonstrated that prolonged exposures high temperatures produced a marked reduction minimum rate under given applied stress. Microhardness measurements showed hardened zone formed proximity surface due oxygen penetration into metal. ...

Split-protein systems have emerged as a powerful tool for detecting biomolecular interactions and reporting biological reactions. However, reliable methods for identifying viable split sites are still unavailable. In this study, we demonstrated the feasibility that valid circular permutation (CP) sites in proteins have the potential to act as split sites and that CP prediction can be used to se...

Exact pattern searching in DNA sequence databases has applications in identification of highly conserved regulatory sequences, the design of hybridization probes, and improving performance of approximate homology searching tools such as BLAST and BLAT. We propose a new pattern searching algorithm, CompressedPunctuated-Boyer-Moore (cp-BM), to enhance exact pattern match searches of DNA sequences...

PURPOSE The development of efficient and independent walking is an important therapeutic goal for many children with cerebral palsy (CP). Consequently, there has been growing interest in determining the effects of treadmill training programs for these children. METHOD A systematic review of the literature was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of treadmill training for children with CP. ...

Adequate nutrition is critically important for the achievement of the adolescent athlete's optimal performance. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the adequacy of macro- and micro-nutrients in the adolescent Greek female volleyball players' diet. The subjects of the study consisted of 16 players who were members of the Junior National Team (NP) and 49 players who participated in t...