Pyrimidine oligonucleotides containing alternating anionic and stereo-uniform cationic N-(dimethylamino-propyl)phosphoramidate linkages [e.g. d(T+T-)7T, d(T+T-)2(T+C-)5T and (U'+U'-)7dT, where U' is 2'-O-methyluridine)] are shown to bind to complementary double-stranded DNA segments in 0.1 M NaCl at pH 7 to form triple-stranded complexes with the pyrimidine.purine.pyrimidine motif. For each of ...

As one of the main characteristics of seismic waves, apparent wave velocity has great influence on seismic responses of long-span suspension bridges. Understanding these influences is important for seismic design. In this article, the critical issues concerning the traveling wave effect analysis are first reviewed. Taizhou Bridge, the longest triple-tower suspension bridge in the world, is then...

It has been shown that triple antiplatelet therapy with cilostazol results in better clinical outcomes than dual therapy in patients treated with a first-generation drug-eluting stent (DES); however, it is unclear whether triple antiplatelet therapy has a similar efficacy after the implantation of second-generation DES.In the COACT (Cath Olic medical center percutAneous Coronary in Tervention) ...

The presence of more than one non-severe pathogenic mutation in the same mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecule is very rare. Moreover, it is unclear whether their co-occurrence results in an additive impact on mitochondrial function relative to single mutation effects. Here we describe the first example of a mtDNA molecule harboring three Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON)-associated mutat...

We consider the following situation: a field k, a commutative k-algebra R and a left R-module M. Since R is commutative, M may also be considered as an R-R bimodule with the same operation on each side (such modules are often termed symmetric). With these assumptions we have the Harrison (co-) homology groups Harr,(R, M) (Harr*(R, M)), the Hochschild (co-) homology groups Hoch, (R, M) (Hoch*(R,...

Hanbury-Brown Twiss (HBT) correlation measurements provide valuable information about the phase space distribution of matter in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The rapidity dependence of HBT radii arises from a nontrivial interplay between longitudinal and transverse expansion and the time dependence of the freeze-out pattern. For a non-accelerating longitudinal expansion the dependence...

to evaluate the effect of drought stress, biofertilizer and chemical phosphorus fertilizer on yield and seed protein percentage of two lentil cultivars, an experiment was conducted in split factorial based on crbd design with 4 replications in research farm of university of tehran (karaj-iran) during 2009-10. the main factor including three irrigation levels (irrigation after 70, 90 and 130 mm ...

Distributed control systems in power plants are the latest trends to optimize and control performance. Reliability prediction of input-output components of distributed control systems have a key role to play in the power plant scenario. Triple modular redundancy is a means of increasing reliability of systems. Triple modular redundancy of three modules each containing m cards is studied in this...

We prove that Jordan triple elementary surjective maps on unital rings containing a nontrivial idempotent are automatically additive. The first result about the additivity of maps on rings was given by Martindale III in an excellent paper [7]. He established a condition on a ring R such that every multiplicative bijective map on R is additive. More precisely, he proved the following theorem. Th...