The development of new biopharmaceuticals relies on robust scale-up from small-scale screening studies to industrial bioreactors. Novel SUB designs can prove highly beneficial, although they lack the extensive characterisation traditional STRs. Pall Corporation’s Allegro™ STR 50-2000 L bioreactor range has a unique design square cross-section, with three wedge-shaped baffles. A scale-down 1 pro...

Metacognitive awareness has been shown to be a critical skill for academic success. However, students often struggle to regulate this ability during learning tasks. The current study investigates how features designed to promote metacognitive awareness can be built into the game-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) iSTART-2. College students (n=28) interacted with iSTART-2 for one hour, comp...

2012 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank all people which have made this work possible. I express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Professor Militon Frent¸iu, for his help during these years. I also thank Professor Horia F. Pop for research opportunities offered and valuable ideas. The passion for research, encouragements and many ideas came from my coleague Andreea Vescan to whom I am ...

We present stationary models of protostellar population  (Pop , for short) accretion discs, compare them to Pop  discs, and investigate the influence of the different chemical compositions on the occurence of gravitational, thermal and thermal-viscous instabilities in the discs. In particular in the cooler regions, we find major differences between Pop  and Pop  discs, both in the st...

Package-oriented programming (POP) is a promising approach to component-based software design. POP treats suites of massmarket application packages as component libraries. Their standardized architectures, programmability, interoperability, rich orthogonal functions, and low cost make them attractive candidates as components. However, they also have characteristics that make it hard and risky t...

Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str. (genus Paederus Fabricius, 1775) are reviewed. Paederus (s. str.) xinjiangensis Li & Zhou, n. sp. is described from Xinjiang, Northwest China. Male genitalia and other critical characters are illustrated for five other Chinese species of the subgenus Paederus s. str., namely P. (s. str.) socius Bernhauer, 1916, P. (s. str.) coxalis Fauvel, 1895, ...

We present an approach to unsupervised concept formation, based on accumulation of partial regularities. Using an algorithmic complexity framework, we define regularity as a model that achieves a compressed coding of data, We discuss induction of models. We present induction of ftite automata models for regularities of strings, and induction of models based on vector translations for sets of po...

in the present study, genotyping of six short tandem repeat (str) loci including csf1po, d16s539, f13a01, f13b, lpl and hprtb was performed on genomic dna from 127 unrelated individuals from the iranian province of isfahan. the results indicated that the allele and genotype distributions were in accordance with hardy-weinberg expectations. the observed heterozygosity (ho), expected heterozygosi...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the ultrastructure and content of collagen in uterosacral ligaments and paraurethral tissues in patients with pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and stress urinary incontinence (SUI), analyzing the association between POP and collagen dysfunction. The study comprised three groups: Control, POP and POP with SUI (n=30 per group). Histological characteristi...

In capillary gel electrophoresis (CE), changing run conditions such as temperature can result in minor variations in the size determination of an allele. These effects are caused by secondary structure differences that can occur between the amplified sample and the internal standard. The type of method chosen to generate the sizing curve in STR analysis can influence the relationship between es...