Sequencing by hybridization (SBH) is a promising alternative to the classical DNA sequencing approaches. However, the resolving power of SBH is rather low: with 64kb sequencing chips, unknown DNA fragments only as long as 200 bp can be reconstructed in a single SBH experiment. To improve the resolving power of SBH, positional SBH (PSBH) has recently been suggested; this allows (with additional ...

D0-brane gas picture of Schwarzschild black hole (SBH) is considered in the large N regime of Matrix theory. An entropy formula, which reproduces the thermodynamics of SBH in the large N limit for all dimensions (D ≥ 6), is proposed. The equations of states for low temperature are obtained. We also give a proof of the Newton gravitation law between two SBHs, whose masses are not equal. Our resu...

Previous studies from this laboratory have described some of the physical (l), chemical (2, 3), and immunological (4) properties of the soybean hemagglutinin (SBH)l which is responsible in part for the poor nutritive value of unheated soybean meal (5). Since the destruction of this protein has obvious practical implications in the field of animal nutrition, a comprehensive study has been made o...

This paper is devoted to estimate contribution of structure and morphology of the individual design constituents to performance improvement of multilayer polaritonic photodetector (optochemical sensor). Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in the surface barrier heterostructure (SBH) with the corrugated interface is used as the basic principle underlying the device operation. The demonstration of co...

This study evaluated the effects of including soluble and insoluble dietary fiber sources in soybean oil-containing diet for broiler chickens on coefficient apparent ileal digestibility (AID) amino acids, retention (AR) nutrients, nitrogen-corrected metabolizable energy (AMEn). A total 180 broilers were divided into 30 groups fed 3 diets from day 14 to 21 age. The corn–soybean meal containing 6...

Super-massive black holes (SBHs) have long been identified as the engines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and are now considered to play a key role in galaxy evolution. In this dissertation I present results of two observational studies conducted on nearby AGNs with the aim of furthering our understanding of SBH growth and their interplay with the host galaxies. The first study is an observati...

Rhodosporidium toruloides is a lipid-producing yeast, the growth of which is severely suppressed when hydrolysates of lignocellulosic biomass are used as carbon source. This is probably due to the toxic substances, such as organic acids, furans, and phenolic compounds produced during the preparation of the hydrolysates. In order to solve this problem, R. toruloides cultures were subjected to at...

XML based services integrate information resources running on different platforms or technologies to enhance the service efficiency. Thus, the volume of XML traffic on networks is increasing rapidly, and it demands for efficient XML processing algorithms to support high performance services, especially in XML security applications. This paper proposes a memory efficient XML parsing algorithm le...

Bitmap indexes are commonly used in data warehousing applications such as on-line analytic processing (OLAP). Storing the bitmaps in compressed form has been shown to be effective not only for low cardinality attributes, as conventional wisdom would suggest, but also for high cardinality attributes. Compressed bitmap indexes, such as Byte-aligned been shown to be efficient in terms of both time...

The I-V characteristics of 10nm Ni(Pt=0, 5, 10 at.%) germanosilicides/n-Si0/7Ge0.3 and silicides/n-Si contact annealed at 400 and 500°C were studied. For Schottky contact on n-Si, with the addition of Pt in the Ni(Pt) alloy, the Schottky barrier height (SBH) increases greatly. With the inclusion of a 10% Pt, SBH increases ~0.13 eV. However, for the Schottky contacts on SiGe, with the addition o...