Microbial ecology provides the link between basic biochemical and molecular studies on toxicity reduction by microbial metabolism and environmental studies that determine exposure. This link provides the ability to determine which microorganisms are responsible for the actual transformations in nature, thereby establishing how predictive the laboratory pathway, kinetic, regulatory, and enzyme m...

This paper proposes a novel Gaussian process approach to fault removal in time-series data. Fault removal does not delete the faulty signal data but, instead, massages the fault from the data. We assume that only one fault occurs at any one time and model the signal by two separate non-parametric Gaussian process models for both the physical phenomenon and the fault. In order to facilitate faul...

Surface charge density studies as well as characterizations of coagulated dye sludge were investigated to explain the mechanism which takes place during removal of dyes from effluents by chemical coagulation. A simple laboratory model was used to compare two commercially used textile azo dyes: CI “Reactive Black 5” and “Acid Black 1” that were coagulated with synthetic primary coagulants have b...

The bondage number b(G) of a graph G is the smallest number of edges of G whose removal results in a graph having the domination number larger than that of G. In a sense, the bondage number b(G) measures integrity and reliability of the domination number γ(G) with respect to the edge removal, which corresponds, e.g., to link failures in communication networks. We show that, for a graph G having...

DNA is considered to be an important target for the antitumor and toxic properties of the Chloroethylnitrosoureas. Since the main target for their dose-limiting toxicity and the antileukemic efficacy is believed to be the bone marrow, we have compared the formation and subsequent removal of DNA-DNA interstrand cross-links in the bone marrow of rats which had received a single i.p. injection (10...

Introduction Adoptive cell therapy, where patients are treated with expanded autologous T cells derived from tumor specimens, is currently one of the most effective treatments for stage IV malignant melanoma. Clinical studies have indicated a link between treatment with anti-CTLA-4 treatment (e.g. Ipilimumab) prior to tumor removal, and a favorable treatment response to subsequent adoptive cell...

In this paper we study the link between a semi-infinite chance-constrained optimization problem and its randomized version, i.e. the problem obtained by sampling a finite number of its constraints. Extending previous results on the feasibility of randomized convex programs, we establish here the feasibility of the solution obtained after the elimination of a portion of the sampled constraints. ...

We propose a three-dimensional mechanical model of embryonic tissue dynamics. Mechanically coupled adherent cells are represented as particles interconnected with elastic beams which can exert non-central forces and torques. Tissue plasticity is modeled by a stochastic process consisting of a connectivity change (addition or removal of a single link) followed by a complete relaxation to mechani...