Part II Platforms for Building a Digital Product Memory Hardware Requirements for Digital Product Memories . . . . . . . . . . 59 Jörg Neidig The Smart SEMPROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Jörg Neidig, Thomas Grosch, and Ulrike Heim A Robotic Platform for Building and Exploiting Digital Product Memories 91 Johannes Lemburg, Dennis Mronga, Achint Aggarwal, José de G...

BACKGROUND Herbs might affect the homeostasis of bile acids through influence of multiple metabolic pathways of bile acids. OBJECTIVE To investigate the inhibition of cryptotanshinone towards the glucuronidation of LCA, trying to indicate the possible influence of cryptotanshinone-containing herbs towards the homeostasis of bile acids. METHODS The LCA-3-glucuronidation and LCA-24-glucuronid...

Phase advance errors between interaction points (IP) break the symmetry of multi-IP colliders. This symmetry breaking introduces new, lower order resonances which may change the halo from the beam-beam interaction dramatically. In this paper, the mechanism of introducing new resonances is discussed. Simulation results showing the changes due to phase advance errors are presented. Simulation res...

1. Loev MA, Varklet VL, Wilsey BL, Ferrante FM. Cryoablation: A novel approach to neurolysis of the ganglion impar. Anesthesiology 1998;88:1391-1393. 2. Plancarte R, Velazquez R, Patt RB. Neurolytic blocks of sympathetic axis. In: Patt R, ed. Cancer Pain. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott Publishers; 1993:417-420. 3. Wemm KJ, Saberski L. Modified approach to block the ganglion impar (ganglion of Walt...

Drug repositioning (DR) is the process of identifying new indications for existing drugs. DR usually focuses on drugs that have cleared phase-I safety trials but has yet to show efficacy for the intended indication. Therefore, DR can probably skip the preclinical and phase-I study, which can reduce the cost throughout drug development. However, the expensive phase-II/III trials are required to ...

Herb Spiegel was known for many professional and scientific achievements. He may be best remembered for his discovery of the Eye Roll Sign (ERS) and its relation to innate trance capacity and the parallel creation and development of the Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP). The present paper provides a historical context for understanding Herb's 1972 publication of "An Eye Roll Test for Hypnotizabi...

1American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arlington, VA 22202, USA 2Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3Quebec Center for Functional Materials and Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada G1V 0A6 4Department of Bioindustrial Technologies, College of Anim...

In continuation of our search for biologically active molecules from terrestrial sources, we have investigated the creeping perennial herb Phyla nodiyora (Linn) Greene (Verbenaceae) ("Lippia nodiyora (Linn.) Mich), which grows widely in India. The leaves of P. nodiyora were collected from Bhadrachalam forest in October 1998. The plant was identi"ed by Prof. M. Prabhakar, Plant Anatomy and Taxon...