Our research is placed in the context of business decision making processes. We look at decision making as at a workflow of (mostly mental) activities directed at choosing one decision alternative. Our goal is to direct the flow of decision activities such that the relevant alternatives are properly evaluated. It is outside our purpose to recommend which alternative should be chosen. Since busi...

Three particulate methane monooxygenase PCR primer sets (A189-A682, A189-A650, and A189-mb661) were investigated for their ability to assess methanotroph diversity in soils from three sites, i.e., heath, oak, and sitka, each of which was capable of oxidizing atmospheric concentrations of methane. Each PCR primer set was used to construct a library containing 50 clones from each soil type. The c...

El calor puede ser una fuente de mejora la fuerza unión (FU) los agentes enlace entre zirconia y un cemento resinoso. Objetivo: Medir FU adhesivos utilizados para cementar zirconia, cuando han sido calentados a 75 1000 C. Materiales Métodos: tres acoplamiento disponibles comercialmente, Single Bond Universal (3M), Monobond-N (Ivoclar Vivadent) Clearfil Ceramic Primer (Kuraray America Inc). Se c...

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are a valuable source of molecular markers. To enhance the resolution of an existing linkage map and to identify putative functional polymorphic gene loci in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), over 260,000 ESTs from 5 different grass species were analyzed and 5418 SSR-containing sequences were identified. Using sequence similarity analysis, 156 cross-species ...

Cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) is highly polymorphic. CYP2D6-2D7 hybrid genes can be present in samples containing CYP2D6*4 and CYP2D6*10 alleles. CYP2D7-2D6 hybrid genes can be present in samples with duplication signals and in samples with homozygous genotyping results. The frequency of hybrid genes in clinical samples is unknown. We evaluated 1390 samples for undetected hybrid genes by polymer...

A control template for a competitive nested primer PCR of the HIV-1 gag region was constructed. This construct shares the primer recognition sequences with the wildtype template and yields a 97-bp fragment after amplification (wild-type: 115 bp). To provide an internal control for the individual PCR runs, six copies of this nested primer control plasmid were introduced into a reaction tube cont...

An efficient reservoir operation technique plays a very important role in improving the water resources and energy efficiency of reservoirs. In order to effectively avoid or alleviate the “curse of dimensionality” of Multi-dimensional Dynamic Programming (MDP) in the application of cascade reservoirs operation optimization (CROO) and keep a global convergence at the same time, two dimension red...

Abstract Marble dust powder is a by product of the marble industry, which produces it. Environmental contamination occurs when thrown away. Concrete using MDP was tested for strength after it mixed in as cement substitute to see how well held up. It possible replace up 10% concrete with and still have same degree strength. Higher amounts replacement (20%, 30%, 40%, 50%) result lower compressive...

The goal of Reinforcement learning (RL) is to maximize reward (minimize cost) in a Markov decision process (MDP) without knowing the underlying model a priori. RL algorithms tend to be much slower than planning algorithms, which require the model as input. Recent results demonstrate that MDP planning can be expedited, by exploiting the graphical structure of the MDP. We present extensions to tw...

Table S1 Primers and templates used in this strategy. Fig. S1 Effects of Ag + on the activity of KF exo-DNA polymerase. Fig. S2 The efficiencies of dCMP incorporation for A/6mA containing templates with different incubation time. Fig. S3 Primer extensions for A/6mA containing templates with different concentrations of Ag +. Fig. S4 The efficiencies of dCMP incorporation for A/6mA containing tem...