We present a method for attributing a measure of reliability to a residue pair in an optimal alignment of two protein sequences. Validation based on a database of structurally correct alignments [Pascarella and Argos (1992) Protein Engng, 5, 121-137] shows that correctly aligned parts of a sequence alignment systematically receive high scores in this measure. The higher the sequence similarity ...

In this paper, a decoding method is proposed for the (41, 21, 9) quadratic residue code. The method is acquired through applying the condition of the modified Gao’s algorithm that is similar to fast transform decoding developed by Shiozaki [8]. The property of the syndrome polynomial is used in our decoding method. The new algorithm for has been verified by a software simulation using C languag...

The present work shows the material flow analysis in indentation by the numerical two dimensional Finite Elements (FEM) method and the experimental two-dimensional Digital Image Correlation (DIC) method. To achieve deep indentation without cracking, a ductile material, 99% tin, is used. The results obtained from the DIC technique depend predominantly on the pattern conferred to the samples. Due...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Workbench (MRIW) allows analysis of T1and T2*-weighted dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging data sets to extract tissue permeability and perfusion characteristics by using standard pharmacokinetic models. Parametric maps are calculated from individual pixel enhancement curves in regions of interest (ROIs) and displayed as color overlays on the anatomic...

Cucumber is one of the main vegetables in Iranian food basket. A wide range of pesticides are used for crops protection during the cultivation of vegetables such as cucumber due to heavy pest infestation. Analysis of pesticide residues in food and other environmental commodities have become essential requirement for consumers, producers, and food quality control authorities. This study was aime...

Effects of pH, D2EHPA, Cyanex® 302 and Cyanex® 272 on extractions of zinc, manganese and cobalt from a Zn-Mn-Co-Cd-Ni containing solution was comprehensively investigated at the room temperature. The addition of Cyanex® 302 indicated a left-shifting-effect on the extraction curve of zinc, a right-shifting-effect on the extraction curve of manganese and no effect on the extraction of cobalt. The...

We consider Thurston maps, i.e., branched covering maps f : S → S that are postcritically finite. It is shown that a Thurston map f is expanding (in a suitable sense) if and only if some iterate F = f is semi-conjugate to z : S → S, where d = deg F . More precisely, for such an F we construct a Peano curve γ : S → S (onto), such that F ◦ γ(z) = γ(z) (for all z ∈ S).

Scholars writing books that are widely used to support teaching in higher education may be undervalued due to a lack of evidence of teaching value. Whilst sales data may give credible evidence for textbooks, it may poorly reflect educational uses of other types of books. As an alternative, this article proposes a method to automatically search for mentions of books in online academic course syl...

We review recently introduced curve-dependent McMillan maps which are mappings of the plane that preserve biquadratic foliations. We show that they are measure preserving and thus integrable. We discuss the geometry of these maps including their fixed points and their stability. We consider the normal forms of symmetric and asymmetric biquadratic curves and the normal forms for their associated...