A novel mannose-binding tuber lectin with in vitro antiproliferative activity towards human cancer cell lines and antiviral activity against HSV-II was isolated from fresh tubers of a traditional Chinese medicinal herb, Typhonium divaricatum (L.) Decne by a combined procedure involving extraction, ammonium sulfate precipitation, ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-SEPHAROSE, CM-SEPHAROSE and ge...

This paper presents TDL, a typed feature-based representation language and inference system. Type deeni-tions in TDL consist of type and feature constraints over the boolean connectives. TDL supports open-and closed-world reasoning over types and allows for partitions and incompatible types. Working with partially as well as with fully expanded types is possible. EEcient reasoning in TDL is acc...

There is an extensive literature on task modelling related to the design of computer systems. Task analysis and task modelling have been widely recognized as central components in human-centred approaches. The aim of this paper is to report on some results of a worldwide survey about actual practices of task descriptions languages (TDL) in SIGCHI community. Results suggest that academic TDL are...

Well-designed templates of electronic patient record (EPR) are efficient for consistent and standardized records. Template definition language (TDL) 1 , which can represent the content and structure of EPR template, was developed to promote sharing of templates among clinics and institutions. TDL is one of the many applications of XML therefore a TDL document is a human-readable tagged text and...

In order to isolate genes regulating sex differentiation of embryonic gonads, we have attempted to obtain genes specifically expressed in male embryonic gonads by means of subtractive hybridization screening, and we have cloned a novel mouse gene, Tdl. It potentially encodes a protein showing sequence homology to anti-microbial protein, beta-defensins. Tdl reveals structural features such as th...

We present the Timing Definition Language (TDL), which supports the development of dependable embedded real-time systems. TDL is conceptually based on the time-triggered programming model introduced by Giotto but provides a more convenient syntax, more control over the timing of periodic activities, an industrial strength tool chain, and, most importantly, adds a component model and supports th...

The paper first presents the integration options of what we call the Timing Description Language (TDL) with MathWorks' Simulink tools. Based on the paradigm of logical execution time (LET) as introduced by Giotto [2], TDL enhances Giotto towards a component architecture for real-time control applications [9]. The challenge is to provide appropriate visual and interactive modeling capabilities s...

We address three main problems regarding the use of the traditional dataflow language (TDL) for modelling large and dynamic networks: • The problem of scalability. The concepts and notations of TDL do not scale well. Thus TDL specifications may get large (space consuming) and chaotic. • The problem of generality. TDL does not have the expressibility for specifying networks consisting of n (a ge...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE There are limited data on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in patients with tuberculosis-destroyed lung (TDL), a sequela of pulmonary tuberculosis. We identified the risk factors for PAH and their effects on acute exacerbation and mortality in patients with TDL, as well as the clinical differences in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and PA...

This paper describes a solution for bus scheduling of distributed multi-mode TDL (Timing Definition Language) components. The TDL component model is based on the concept of Logical Execution Time (LET), which abstracts from physical execution time and thereby from both the execution platform and the communication topology. The TDL component model allows the decomposition of hard real-time appli...