The cyclin D1, referred to as PRAD-1, has been mapped to the 11q13 region, and its expression has been detected in squamous cell lines and several primary esophageal carcinomas. We assessed cyclin D1 amplification in 122 squamous cell carcinomas of the esophagus. Samples for DNA extraction were obtained from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded specimens, and 10 microgram of each DNA sample were su...

The concept of the alpha-factor, a correction factor on significant wave height limit, was developed by DNV to consider effect weather forecast uncertainty in planning and executing marine operations. In this paper, new defined response-based factor, called alpha-factor α R , is proposed account for both H s peak period T p quantify their dynamic response offshore structures. A general methodol...

The reliability analysis method and the allowable stress method were both applied in this study to determine design values of ultimate compression strength (UCS) of visually-graded 40 x 65 mm dimension Chinese larch lumber. A total of 784 lumber samples were tested on the static full-size compression strength, according to Chinese National Standards. The goodness-of-fit for the UCS distribution...

the present research is concerned with the determination of ductility, over-strength and response modification factors of coupled steel shear wall frames. three structural models with various numbers of stories, bay width and coupling beam height were analyzed using static pushover and incremental nonlinear dynamic analyses. the ductility, over-strength and response modification factors for the...

We analyze the s-step biconjugate gradient algorithm in finite precision arithmetic and derive a bound for the residual norm in terms of a minimum polynomial of a perturbed matrix multiplied by an amplification factor. Our bound enables comparison of s-step and classical biconjugate gradient in terms of amplification factors. Our results show that for s-step biconjugate gradient, the amplificat...

We discuss the importance of distributed amplification for high-speed soliton communication systems through numerical simulations by considering the distributed gain provided by stimulated Raman scattering or erbium dopants. Hybrid amplification schemes are also considered. At a bit rate of 40 Gb/s, the use of distributed amplification is found to improve the transmission distance (deduced from...

Saul’yev-type asymmetric schemes have been widely used in solving diffusion and advection equations. In this work, we show that Saul’yev-type schemes can be derived from the exponential splitting of the semidiscretized equation which fundamentally explains their unconditional stability. Furthermore, we show that optimal schemes are obtained by forcing each scheme’s amplification factor to match...