Bundle size pricing (BSP) is a multi-dimensional selling mechanism where the firm prices the size of the bundle rather than the different possible combinations of bundles. In BSP, the firm offers the customer a menu of different sizes and prices. The customer then chooses the size that maximizes his surplus and customizes his bundle given his chosen size. While BSP is commonly used across sever...

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) belongs to the "small integrin-binding ligand N-linked glycoprotein" (SIBLING) family, whose members interact with bone cells and bone mineral. BSP is strongly expressed in bone and we previously showed that BSP knockout (BSP-/-) mice have a higher bone mass than wild type (BSP+/+) littermates, with lower bone remodelling. Because baseline bone formation activity is cons...

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is a secreted glycoprotein primarily found in sites of biomineralization. Recently, we demonstrated that BSP is strongly upregulated in osteotropic cancers and particularly those that exhibit microcalcifications. BSP contains an Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD) motif found in other adhesive molecules that interact with cellular integrins. In bone, BSP has been shown to mediate the atta...

The BSP model by L.G. Valiant has been proposed as a unifying and bridging model for the design, analysis and programming of general purpose parallel computing systems. A number of libraries have been implemented that allow programming following the BSP paradigm with one of them being the Oxford BSP Toolset. Algorithm designers and software engineers are able to study the performance of their i...

A silage inoculant [Biomin® BioStabil Plus, BSP, a blend of Enterococcus faecium (DSM 3530), Lactobacillus brevis (DSM 19456) and Lactobacillus plantarum (DSM 19457)], was used on legume-grass silage [32% of dry matter (DM)] vs. an untreated control silage (CT). The material had mean crude protein (CP) and water soluble carbohydrate (WSC) concentrations of 174 and 88 g/kg,respectively. BSP resu...

The influence of bile salts on the hepatic metabolism of sulfobromophthalein sodium (BSP) was studied in the perfused rat liver. During sodium taurocholate infusions, hepatic uptake of BSP from plasma was increased and appeared to be related to an enhanced transit of BSP from liver into bile. BSP-glutathione conjugation was not affected by the bile salt infusions, although bile salts inhibited ...

Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is characterized by progressive deterioration and loss articular cartilage with associatedstructural performance changes in entire joint, current treatments for OA only aim to relieve symptoms, rather than prevent or reverse disease progression. Recently, targeting “early osteoarthritis” (EOA) have attracted attention. However, during EOA stage, chondrocytes may ...

A Unified Modeling Language (UML) description of the BSP model of parallel computation is presented. This UML description identifies BSP classes and objects and specifies various object and inter-object relationships, dependencies, and behaviors. This was achieved by describing various views of the BSP model using many of the UML structural and behavioral diagrams. The use to the UML to describ...

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is a secreted glycoprotein found in mineralized tissues however, BSP is aberrantly expressed in a variety of osteotropic tumors. Elevated BSP expression in breast and prostate primary carcinomas is directly correlated with increased bone metastases and tumor progression. In this study, the intracellular signaling pathways responsible for BSP-induced migration and tumor s...