The utility of differentially expressed proteins discovered and identified in an earlier study (DeSouza, L., Diehl, G., Rodrigues, M. J., Guo, J., Romaschin, A. D., Colgan, T. J., and Siu, K. W. M. (2005) Search for cancer markers from endometrial tissues using differentially labeled tags iTRAQ and cleavable ICAT with multidimensional liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry. J. Prote...

This paper proposes the use of Bayesian approach to implement Value at Risk (VaR) model for both linear and non-linear portfolios. The Bayesian approach provides risk traders with the flexibility of adjusting their VaR models according to their subjective views. First, we deal with the case of linear portfolios. By imposing the conjugate-prior assumptions, a closed-form expression for the Bayes...

The carbohydrate fraction of human milk includes a number of chemically defined oligosaccharides which contain the 6-deoxyhexose, L-fucose (2, 3). The present report describes a particulate enzyme from lactating canine mammary tissue’ which catalyzes the synthesis of fucosyllactose,2 the simplest member of this group, by transfer of L-fucose from guanosine diphosphate L-fucose to lactose. If fu...

We design a stabilizing linear boundary feedback control for a one-link flexible manipulator with rotational inertia. The system is modelled as a Rayleigh beam rotating around one endpoint, with the torque at this endpoint as the control input. The closed-loop system is nondissipative, so that its well posedness is not easy to establish. We study the asymptotic properties of the eigenvalues and...

1047-3203/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jvcir.2012.01.016 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +852 23628439. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Z.-P. D (Y.-L. Chan), [email protected] (K.-B. Jia), ench [email protected] (W.-C. Siu). The multiview video coding (MVC) extension of H.264/AVC is the emerging standard for compression of impressive 3D and free-viewpoint video...

S ome mathematical topics—circulant matrices, in particular—are pure gems that cry out to be admired and studied with different techniques or perspectives in mind. Our work on this subject was originally motivated by the apparent need of the first author to derive a specific result, in the spirit of Proposition 24, to be applied in his investigation of theta constant identities [9]. Although pr...

Evaluating alignments for a transportation corridor is a complex process that involves many decision makers and stakeholders. Capturing input about important considerations is vital to the process of alignment selection and is an iterative process. Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) provides a systematic methodology to compare, select, and rank multiple alternatives using disparate data sour...

Population aging has become a salient issue in contemporary Chinese society (Lee, 2004). An important concern for any aging society is to maintain the health and well-being of older adults (Xie, 2008d, 2009). Studies have shown that family relationships play a critical role in maintaining individuals’ psychological well-being and life satisfaction (Litwin and Shiovitz-Ezra, 2010; Lou, 2010; Geo...

Pieter J. Helmons, PHarm.D., is Pharmacoeconomics Specialist, Department of Pharmacy, University of California San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center, San Diego; at the time of this study he was a Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, La Jolla. linDsay n. Wargel, PHarm.D., is Clinical Pharmacist, UCSD Medical Center; at the time of this study she was Postgrad...

ty of life. For example, baby boomers are aging. Home-based robots that assist with housekeeping tasks enable more of the population to remain in their homes while reducing health-care costs. Using robots to survey, surveil, and secure regions of interest requires intelligent algorithms that can act and react autonomously in dynamic regions. Unfortunately this vision is quite distant from the c...