FORWARD Designing an interface between systems is not a simple or straight-forward task. Parameters that must be taken into account include: data rate, data format, cable length, mode of transmission, termination, bus common mode range, connector type, and system configuration. Noting the number of parameters illustrates how complex this task actually is. Additionally, the interface’s compatibi...

Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), which can be produced by host and tumor cells in the tumor microenvironment, is intimately involved in tumor progression. In the present study, to pursue the possibility that PAI-1 could be a therapeutic target in the management of malignancy, SK-216, a specific PAI-1 inhibitor, was orally administered to wild-type mice that were subcutaneously implant...

Intracellular membrane fusion requires SNARE proteins found on the vesicle and target membranes. SNAREs associate by formation of a parallel four-helix bundle, and it has been suggested that formation of this complex promotes membrane fusion. The membrane proximal region of the cytoplasmic domain of the SNARE syntaxin 1A, designated H3, contributes one of the four helices to the SNARE complex. ...

Approximately 140 mutants of Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 unable to grow aerobically on media lacking fixed nitrogen (Fix-) were isolated after mutagenesis with diethyl sulfate and penicillin enrichment. A large cosmid library of wild-type Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 DNA was constructed in a mini-RK-2 shuttle vector, and seven mutants representing several morphologically abnormal heterocyst ph...

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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have great potentials in photovoltaics due to their high power conversion efficiency and low processing cost. PSCs are usually fabricated from PbI2/dimethylformamide solution with some toxic additives, such as N-methyl pyrrolidone and hexamethylphosphoramide. Here, we use an environmental friendly aprotic polar solvent, 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone (DMI), to fabr...

In this paper, we describe some considerations on a speaker-independent word recognition method on a large vocabulary size by the concatenation of syllable templates and a stochastic dynamic time warping method, where syllable templates are taken from spoken words. We got the reference patterns from 216 words uttered by 30 male speakers and recognized the other 200 words uttered by the other 10...

Methods In the EuroPrevall-INCO survey, primary school children (7-10 years) from randomly selected schools in China (Hong Kong [urban/n=401], Guangzhou [urban/ n=402], Shaoguan [rural/n=349]) and Russia (Tomsk [urban&rural/n=1230]) were first screened by a short questionnaire for self-reported food allergy. Subsequently, cases and randomly sampled controls underwent a more detailed clinical ev...

3C 216 has a weak accretion flow luminosity, well below the Seyfert1/QSO dividing line, weak broad emission lines (BELs) and powerful radio lobes. As a consequence of the extreme properties of 3C 216, it is the most convincing example known of an FR II radio source that is kinetically dominated: the jet kinetic luminosity, Q, is larger than the total thermal luminosity (IR to X-ray) of the accr...

Blood, Vol. 53, No. 2 (February), 1979 279 Prenatal detection of hemoglobinopathies is difficult if placental blood samples are contaminated by maternal cells. Since fetal red cells contain less carbonic anhydrase than adult erythrocytes, adult cells can be preferentially hemolyzed in NH4CI-NH4HCO3acetazolamide (the #{216}rskov-Jacobs-Stewart reaction). In the conditions used In our experiments...