Biomass charcoal powder (BCP) was used as a carrier for immobilization of α-chymotrypsin through adsorption. BCP was derived from plant biomass wastes such as dumped bamboos by oxygen-free pyrolysis at low temperatures and grinding with a jet mill. The activity of adsorbed α-chymotrypsin was strongly dependent upon the kind of BCP. The thermal denaturation curve of adsorbed α-chymotrypsin was s...

Ultrafine, uniform nanostructures with excellent functionalities can be formed by self-assembly of block copolymer (BCP) thin films. However, extension of their geometric variability is not straightforward due to their limited thin film morphologies. Here, we report that unusual and spontaneous positioning between host and guest BCP microdomains, even in the absence of H-bond linkages, can crea...

In this paper, preparation, bioactivity, and osteoblast cell behavior of cortical bone derived nano-biphasic calcium phosphate (nano-BCP) are presented. The calcined bovine bone samples with the addition of di-ammonium hydrogen phosphate were heated at 700°C for 100 min, and thus nano-BCP with the composition of 63/37 hydroxyapatite (HA)/β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) was produced. Scanning ele...

Covering problems are widely used as a modeling tool in electronic design automation. Recent years have seen dramatic improvements in algorithms for the unate/binate covering problem (UCP/BCP). Despite these improvements, BCP is a well-known computationally hard problem with many existing real-world instances that currently are hard or even impossible to solve. In this paper we apply search pru...

Clonal rearrangements of the Ig heavy chain (IGH) locus occur in nearly all cases of B-cell precursor acute leukemia (BCP-ALL). Some of these rearrangements may be detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using VH gene framework III (FRIII) and JH consensus primers. However, about 20% of BCP-ALLs fail to amplify with this technique. To determine the causes of these PCR failures and to invest...

introduction & objective: the brain choroids plexus (bcp) plays an important role in the cerebrospinal fluid (csf) production, but its characterization is still incomplete. collagen type iv, is one of the most important proteins of basement membrane (bm) and extracellular matrix (ecm) of bcp. in the present study we investigated the differential period of type iv collagen in basement membrane o...

INTRODUCTION Zoon's balanitis, also referred to as balanitis circumscripta plasmacellularis (BCP), is an idiopathic, benign inflammatory condition of the glans penis and foreskin most often seen in elderly uncircumcised men. A patient with a biopsy-confirmed diagnosis of BCP who was successfully treated with topical mupirocin ointment is described. METHODS The PubMed database was searched wit...

Bovine corneal protein 54 (BCP 54) is the major soluble protein of the bovine cornea, and immunoreactive forms of this protein have been described in a wide range of mammals. Dideoxy sequence determination of a previously synthesized 420-bp cDNA to BCP 54 generated by the novel mixed oligonucleotide primer amplification of cDNA (MOPAC) procedure revealed extensive similarity to the cDNA encodin...

With the emergence of connected and autonomous vehicles, sensors are increasingly deployed within cars to support new functionalities. Traffic generated by these sensors congest traditional intra-car networks, such as CAN buses. Furthermore, the large amount of wires needed to connect sensors makes it harder to design cars in a modular way. To alleviate these limitations, we propose, simulate, ...

Bovine corneal protein 54 (BCP 54) is the major soluble protein of the bovine cornea, and immunoreactive forms of this protein have been described in a wide range of mammals. Dideoxy sequence determination of a previously synthesized 420-bp cDNA to BCP 54 generated by the novel mixed oligonucleotide primer amplification of cDNA (MOPAC) procedure revealed extensive similarity to the cDNA encodin...