To identify Rns-regulated genes, a maltose binding protein (MBP)-Rns fusion protein was used to isolate DNA fragments from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli genomic DNA that carry Rns binding sites. In vivo transcription fusion analysis shows that Rns positively regulates the expression of the open reading frame of yiiS, which lies immediately downstream of one MBP-Rns-bound fragment.

An SK6 cell line (SK6c26) which constitutively expressed the glycoprotein E(rns) of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) was used to rescue CSFV E(rns) deletion mutants based on the infectious copy of CSFV strain C. The biochemical properties of E(rns) from this cell line were indistinguishable from those of CSFV E(rns). Two E(rns) deletion mutants were constructed, virus Flc23 and virus Flc22. V...

Residue number systems (RNS) present the advantage of fast addition and multiplication over other number systems, and have thus received much attention for high-throughput computations. Digit-parallel, carry-free, and constant-time multiplication and addition is a unique feature of RNS. However, certain operations such as overflow detection, magnitude comparison, and division are quite difficul...

This paper introduces a method for extracting the core of a Residue Number System (RNS) number within the RNS, this affording a new method for scaling RNS numbers. Suppose an RNS comprises a set of co-prime moduli, mi, with ∏mi = M. This paper describes a method for approximately scaling such an RNS number by a subset of the moduli, ∏mj = MJ ≈ √M, with the characteristic that all computations a...

BACKGROUND Patients are admitted to hospitals everyday with clinical conditions that can change dynamically resulting in adverse outcomes. The rapid response team (RRT) intervention is a formalised resource to respond to the nurse's concerns about such patients before code arrest occurs. Registered nurses (RNs) are in a position to recognise critical changes and to rescue patients at the most o...

AIM We evaluate whether the preoperative R.E.N.A.L Nephrometry Score (RNS) can predict the postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing either an open or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively calculated the RNS of 128 patients who underwent either an open partial nephrectomy (OPN) (n = 38) or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) (n = 90) between 2003 and...