The simultaneous determination of betaines, the key compounds for osmotic regulation in plants, was established by capillary electrophoresis (CE). After four betaines, glycine betaine (GB), beta-alanine betaine (AB), proline betaine (PB), and 2-hydroxyproline betaine (HPB), were esterified with p-bromophenacyl bromide, the esters were electrophoresed in 100 mM sodium phosphate at pH 3.0. A low-...

The purpose of this work was to explore in-situ synchrotron wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) as a rapid and accurate tool to screen and monitor the formation of cocrystal/salts during heating. The active pharmaceutical ingredients (caffeine, carbamazepine and lamotrigine) were respectively mixed with the coformer (saccharin), and then heated by the hot stage. Real-time process monitoring was...

We explore several methods utilizing system-wide shared memory to improve the performance of MPI-IO, particularly for noncontiguous file access. We introduce an abstraction called the datatype iterator that permits efficient, dynamic generation of (offset, length) pairs for a given MPI derived datatype. Combining datatype iterators with overlapped I/O and computation, we demonstrate how a share...

A mechanism for overlapped I/O management operations and computation on a simd linear systolic array is presented. This mechanism is based on two synchronized controllers allowing a speedup factor of 2 over simd machines without overlapped facility. Code generation is achieved using the C-stolic language, specifically designed for the architectural features of overlapped simd systolic arrays. R...

People often use multiple platforms to fulfill their different information needs. With the ultimate goal of serving people intelligently, a fundamental way is to get comprehensive understanding about user needs. How to organically integrate and bridge cross-platform information in a human-centric way is important. Existing transfer learning assumes either fully-overlapped or non-overlapped amon...

Shales are defined as fine-grained terrigenous sediments and rocks that contain 50% or more of terrigenous, and generally argillaceous, clastic components less than 0.062 mm in size. In the shales, clay-size components often dominate their rock properties, such as density, plasticity, parting, compatibility and swelling. Generally the size boundary between clay and silt is 4μm, but most clay mi...

In this paper a novel approach for detection of peaks in spectral representations of music signals is proposed. The basic idea is to detect local maxima in any digitized signal and employ statistical techniques for filtering out spurious peaks which are the result of imperfections and noise in spectral representations of music signal.

found for both sense and antisense single strand. It is likely that more than one stable conformation was formed for each single strand. In the case of the mutation, additional peaks were detected (Fig. 1). To perform an automatic evaluation of the mutation, an important point is the reproducibility of the complex peak pattern. The analysis of different electrophoretic runs over 15 days confirm...