A new peptide, APETx1, which specifically inhibits human ether-a-go-go-related gene (HERG) channels, was purified from venom of the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima. APETx1 is a 42-amino acid peptide cross-linked by three disulfide bridges and shares 54% homology with BDS-I, another sea anemone K+ channel inhibitor. Although they differ in their specific targets, circular dichroism spectra...

Automatic speech recognition from multiple distant microphones poses significant challenges because of noise and reverberations. The quality of speech acquisition may vary between microphones because of movements of speakers and channel distortions. This paper proposes a channel selection approach for selecting reliable channels based on selection criterion operating in the short-term modulatio...

Channel catfish virus (CCV) disease is an acute haemorrhagic disease in juvenile channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus). While fish that survive primary CCV infection are suspected of being carriers of CCV, little is known concerning CCV latency. In this report, fingerling catfish were infected with CCV by experimental immersion challenge. Infected fish displayed clinical signs of CCV disease, b...

The design, fabrication and characterization of a miniaturized, mechanically-actuated 12-channel peristaltic pump for microfluidic applications and built from simple, low-cost materials and fabrication methods is presented. Two pump configurations are tested, including one which reduces pulsating flow. Both use a monolithic PDMS pumping inlay featuring three-dimensional geometries favourable to...

Automatic speech recognition from multiple distant microphones poses significant challenges because of noise and reverberations. The quality of speech acquisition may vary between microphones because of movements of speakers and channel distortions. This paper proposes a channel selection approach for selecting reliable channels based on selection criterion operating in the short-term modulatio...

In this paper, the polarization mode dispersion in eight channel WDM system is evaluated by considering one even channel and one odd channel performance parameters like BER and Q-factor. As PMD effects transmission at high bit rates so it is compensated with the help of dispersion compensating fibre at different distances by controlling the polarising angle with the help of polarization control...

We develop a quasilinear theory of the 2D Euler equation and derive an integrodifferential equation for the evolution of the coarse-grained vorticity omega;(r,t). This equation respects all of the invariance properties of the Euler equation and conserves angular momentum in a circular domain and linear impulse in a channel. We show under which hypothesis we can derive an H theorem for the Fermi...

Numerical analysis of diffraction by a single aperture surrounded by a circular shallow channel in a metallic screen shows the possibility of a 50-fold increase of the electric field intensity inside the central aperture, when compared to the incident field. Detailed analysis of cavity modes and their coupling through surface plasmon wave determine the parameters leading to maximum field enhanc...

The motion of linear and circular DNA molecules is studied under pressure driven buffer flow in a 50 nm slit channel with arrays of transverse 150 nm deep nanogrooves. Transport occurs through two states of propagation unique to this nanogroove geometry, a slow, stepwise groove-to-groove translation called the "sidewinder" and a fast, continuous tumbling across the grooves called the "tumblewee...

as: Mang ng Saud Abstract Recently, many realistic spatially and temporally clustered channel models were developed to be applied in the simulations of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. IEEE 802.11n standard channel model includes spatio-temporal fading correlation effects and accounts for six various real propagation profiles. These profiles represent variety of propagation scenar...