The present study is an extension of the cooperative kinematics (CK) approach (Bahar, I.; Erman, B.; Monnerie, L.Macromolecules 1992, 25, 6309), which has been demonstrated to give an efficient and realistic account of the mechanism of local relaxational processes in polyethylene (PE). In the present work, the effects of (i) departure from tetrahedral backbone geometry and (ii) differences in t...

Alkaline protease producing microorganism Vibrio metschnikovii NG155, isolated from the soil samples of leather industry, having potential application in dehairing of animal skin was used in this study. To enhance the production of protease by this strain, various physical and nutritional factors were optimized using statistical methods like Plackett Burman and Response Surface Methodology. In ...

A number of nutritional factors influencing glucose oxidase (EC 1.1.3.4) production by Aspergillus niger NCIM 545 were studied. The synthesis of glucose oxidase by A. niger was investigated in two steps using submerged fermentation at 30±2 °C and 180 rpm for 96 h. Primarily, nutritional components were selected by onefactor-at-a-time method, and the significance of each component with respect t...

OBJECTIVE To use functional neuroimaging to probe the affective circuitry dysfunctions underlying disturbances in emotion processing and emotional reactivity in pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD). METHOD Equal numbers of controls (HC) and unmedicated patients with euthymia and PBD were matched for age, sex, race, socioeconomic status, and IQ (n = 10 per group; mean age 14.2 years [SD 2.0 years]...

As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become more widespread in everyday life, privacy issues are becoming prominent. The aim this research is to develop a personal assistant that can answer software engineers’ questions about Privacy by Design (PbD) practices during the design phase IoT system development. Semantic web used model knowledge underlying PbD measurements, their intersections wi...

We obtained unanticipated synthetic byproducts from alkylation of the δ(1) nitrogen (N3) of the histidine imidazole ring of the polo-like kinase-1 (Plk1) polo-box domain (PBD)-binding peptide PLHSpT. For the highest-affinity byproduct, bearing a C(6)H(5)(CH(2))(8)- group, a Plk1 PBD cocrystal structure revealed a new binding channel that had previously been occluded. An N-terminal PEGylated ver...

In the Far East, many small units of residential buildings over 200 m tall are fitted with open kitchens. Fire safety provisions of these kitchens are determined by performance-based design (PBD). In most PBD projects, only the spread of smoke from the kitchen fire to the outside was studied. However, a fire load survey in Hong Kong indicated that large quantities of combustibles are stored in ...

The dimension of a pairwise balanced design PBD(v,K) is the maximum positive integer d such that any d of its points are contained in a proper flat. The standard examples are affine and projective linear spaces. Also, Teirlinck provided a nearly complete existence theory for ‘Steiner spaces’, which is the case K = {3} and d = 3. A recent result of the first author and A.C.H. Ling says that ther...

Programming by Demonstration (PbD) can allow endusers to teach robots new actions simply by demonstrating them. However, learning generalizable actions requires a large number of demonstrations that is unreasonable to expect from end-users. In this paper, we explore the idea of using crowdsourcing to collect action demonstrations from the crowd. We propose a PbD framework in which the end-user ...