Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are DNA-mimicking molecules in which the sugar-phosphate backbone is replaced by a pseudopeptide backbone composed of N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine units. We determined whether double-stranded molecules based on PNAs and PNA-DNA-PNA (PDP) chimeras could be capable of stable interactions with nuclear proteins belonging to the Sp1 transcription factor family and, therefore,...

Plasma display panels ~PDPs! are a technology for large-area high-brightness flat panel displays. There is considerable interest in improving PDP efficiency by optimizing the cell design, input voltage characteristics, operating conditions and gas mixture. In this article, we report on a two-dimensional computer model for PDPs which has been used to investigate the operation of a coplanar-elect...

INTRODUCTION Difficulties have been reported in the patient distribution during Mass Casualty Incidents. In this study we analysed the regional patient distribution protocol (PDP) and the actual patient distribution after the 2009 Turkish Airlines crash near Amsterdam. METHODS Analysis of the patient distribution of 126 surviving casualties of the crash by collecting data on medical treatment...

The formation degree of sustain (ITO pattern) determines the quality of a PDP (Plasma Display Panel). Thus, in the present study, we attempt to detect 100% of the defects that are larger than 30μm. Currently, the inspection method in the PDP manufacturing process is dependent upon the naked eye or a microscope in off-line mode. In this study, a prototype inspection system for PDP ITO patterned ...

The Internet is showing a potential of forming of a supercomputing resource out of networked computers. It is to harness the combined resources of millions of computers connected to the Internet, forming a powerful heterogeneous computing environment for running coarse-grain parallel applications. The parallel distributed processing has the high cost-performance ratio application on the Interne...

Proteomics approaches enable interrogation of large numbers of proteins to provide a more comprehensive understanding of biological systems. High throughput proteomics typically utilizes liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry technology for data acquisition. Bioinformatic analysis tools are essential to manage and mine resulting high volume proteomics data sets. Data analysis is a current bo...

This paper analyzes bilateral multi-issue negotiation between selfinterested agents. Specifically, we consider the case where issues are divisible, there are time constraints in the form of deadlines and discount factors, and the agents have different preferences over the issues. Given these differing preferences, it is possible to reach Pareto-optimal agreements by negotiating all the issues t...

Provable data possession (PDP) is a technique for ensuring the validity of data in storage outsourcing. The main issue is how to frequently, efficiently verify that an untrusted server is correctly storing its client’s outsourced data. In this paper, we introduce a robust provable data possession protocol that allows a client that has stored he/her data at an untrusted server to verify the vali...

This document describes a proposed protocol to be used in an implementation of a PDP-11 network Bootstrap service and a cross-network debugger. The protocol is designed for debugging processes running under an operating system which can perform some of the "lower level" debugging tasks, such as planting and removing breakpoints and single stepping. A subset of the protocol could be used if such...