Three common serial data standards, RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485, are described by specification and electrical interface. Cable termination techniques, use of multiple loads, daisy-chaining of RS-232, conversion of RS-232 to RS-485, conversion of RS-485 to RS-232, and RS-232 port-powered RS-485 conversions are described.

TT-232 is a structural derivative of the natural signal inhibitory peptide somatostatin, with selective antiproliferative and anti-inflammatory properties. TT-232 activates SSTR receptors (primarily the SSTR-1), which leads to irreversible cell cycle arrest, followed by secondary induction of apoptosis. TT-232 has passed phase I clinical trials without toxicity and significant side-effects. We ...

MDM2-p53 interaction and downstream signaling affect cellular response to DNA damage. AMG 232 is a potent small molecule inhibitor that blocks the interaction of MDM2 and p53. We examined the capacity of AMG 232 to augment radiation response across a spectrum of human tumor cell lines and xenografts. AMG 232 effectively inhibited proliferation and enhanced radiosensitivity via inhibition of dam...

The tumor growth inhibitory efficacy of the somatostatin structural derivative TT-232 was studied using different routes of administration and treatment schedules in various human tumor models. TT-232, containing a five-residue ring structure, has a strong antitumor activity both in vitro and in vivo. The antineoplastic activity of TT-232 has been found to be associated with the induction of pr...

Creating efficient finite field implementations has been an active research topic for several decades. Many applications in areas such as cryptography, signal processing, erasure coding and now also network coding depend on this research to deliver satisfactory performance. In this paper we investigate the use of prime fields with a field size of 2 − 5, as this allows implementations which comb...

We report a series of new in vitro and in vivo data proving the selective antitumor activity of our somatostatin structural derivative, TT-232. In vitro, it inhibited the proliferation of 20 different human tumor cell lines in the range of 50-95% and induced a very strong apoptosis. In vivo TT-232 was effective on transplanted animal tumors (Colon 26, B16 melanoma, and S180 sarcoma) and on huma...

We describe the breaking of supersymmetry in M-theory by coordinate dependent (ScherkSchwarz) compactification of the eleventh dimension. Supersymmetry is spontaneously broken in the gravitational and moduli sector and communicated to the observable sector, living at the end-point of the semicircle, by radiative gravitational interactions. This mechanism shares the generic features of non-pertu...