The objective of this study was to identify Acinetobacter in a traditional cheese from west Azarbaijan, Iran, and to study the lipolytic and proteolytic activities of these bacteria in ripening of white brine cheese. Acinetobacter is a gram negative bacteria which can be found in different sources as dairy products. Lypolysis and proteolysis characteristic of this bacteria and...

A novel insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) entitled NPN aided fast switching IGBT (NFS-IGBT) with a P-buffer layer is presented, which enhances the switching speed greatly. Compared with the conventional IGBT, double sided NPN structure is incorporated into the anode to facilitate the turn-off process. The proposed structure is verified by two-dimensional mixed device-circuit simulation, ...

Neural networks (NN) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various applications. Unfortunately in applications where training data is insufficient, they are often prone to overfitting. One effective way to alleviate this problem is to exploit the Bayesian approach by using Bayesian neural networks (BNN). Another shortcoming of NN is the lack of flexibility to customize different distrib...

Cranial neural crest cells migrate into the periocular region and later contribute to various ocular tissues including the cornea, ciliary body and iris. After reaching the eye, they initially pause before migrating over the lens to form the cornea. Interestingly, removal of the lens leads to premature invasion and abnormal differentiation of the cornea. In exploring the molecular mechanisms un...

A bi-functional nano-composite coating has been created on a porous Nomex® fabric support as a trap for aspirated virus contaminated water. Nomex® fabric was successively dip-coated in solutions containing cysteic acid functionalized alumina (alumoxane) nanoparticles and cysteic acid functionalized iron oxide (ferroxane) nanoparticles to form a nanoparticle coated Nomex® (NPN) fabric. From SEM ...

An algorithm is described which generates the set of representative functions of the negation and/or permutation of variables and negation of the function (NPN) equivalence classes of unate Boolean functions. The algorithm is based upon integer programming techniques. The set of representative functions for the NPN equivalence classes of unate functions of six or fewer variables was obtained us...

This paper discusses the classification of n-input Boolean functions. The concept of P and NPN equivalence classes is used to classify n-input functions. This way, the set of n-input functions is classified according to three criteria: the number of functions, the number of P classes and the number of NPN classes. The meaning of these criteria is discussed through some affirmations relating the...

Although soluble carbohydrates and carbohydrate solubility may sound synonymous, they, in fact, are not when one considers their influence upon the fermentat ion in the rumen. The former refers to a restricted class of carbohydrates of specified solubility whereas the latter portrays a characteristic of any carbohydrate or group of carbohydrates that often can be modified by pH and concentratio...

NrCAM is a neural cell adhesion molecule of the L1 family that has been linked to autism spectrum disorders, a disease spectrum in which abnormal thalamocortical connectivity may contribute to visual processing defects. Here we show that NrCAM interaction with neuropilin-2 (Npn-2) is critical for semaphorin 3F (Sema3F)-induced guidance of thalamocortical axon subpopulations at the ventral telen...

An NPN-based temperature sensor with digital output transistors has been realized in a 65-nm CMOS process. It achieves a batch-calibrated inaccuracy of ±0.5 C (3σ) and a trimmed inaccuracy of ±0.2 C (3σ) over the temperature range from −70 C to 125 C. This performance is obtained by the use of NPN transistors as sensing elements, the use of dynamic techniques, i.e. correlated double sampling an...