Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the main food for people in Laos, where it has been grown and eaten since prehistory. Diverse landraces are grown in Laos. 'Khao Kai Noi', a landrace favored for its eating quality, is held in the nationwide collection of traditional landraces in the Lao national genebank. Genetic diversity is crucial for sustainable use of genetic resources and conservation. To invest...

Seasonal variation of plasma cholesterol levels was studied in 1446 hypercholesterolemic 35to 59-year-old male participants in the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial placebo group. Each man's serial cholesterol data, obtained at bimonthly intervals for 2.0 to 6.5 years, were analyzed as a separate periodic time series, and distributions of cycle zeniths and amplitudes were...

We investigate thermal noise mechanisms and present analytical expressions of the noise power spectral density at high frequencies (HF) in Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) MOSFETs. The developed HF noise model of RF T-gate body contact (TB) SOI MOSFET for 0.13-μm SOI CMOS technology accounts for the mechanisms of 1) channel thermal noise; 2) induced gate noise; 3) substrate resistance noise and 4) ga...

Wavelet Shrinkage de-noi si ng i s appl i ed to El ect rophoret i c Nucl ear Magnet i c Resonance (ENMR) data. Both threshol d rul es for removi ng noi se, namel y sof t and hard, proposed i n Donoho's Vi suShri nk are used simul t aneousl y. Sof t t hreshol di ng i s appl i ed to ne l evel s of wavel et decomposi t i on coe ci ent s and hard threshol di ng to coarse l evel s. Thi s impl ementa...

Stable oxygen sites on a PdO film over a Pd(100) thin structure with a [Formula: see text] surface unit cell are determined using the first-principles electronic structure calculations with the generalized gradient approximation. The adsorbed monatomic oxygen goes to a site bridging two twofold-coordinated Pd atoms or to a site bridging a twofold-coordinated Pd atom and a fourfold-coordinated P...

The pace of Arctic warming is about double that at lower latitudes—a robust phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. Many diverse climate processes and feedbacks cause Arctic amplification, includingpositive feedbacks associated with diminished sea ice. However, the precise contribution of sea-ice loss to Arctic amplification remains uncertain. Through analyses of both observations andmodel si...

Smart power ICs, which monolithically integrate low-loss power devices and control circuitry, have attracted much attention in a wide variety of applications [1], [2]. Commonly used smart power devices are the LDMOS and LIGBT implemented in bulk silicon or SOI (Silicon on Insulator). One of the key issues in the realization of such ‘smart power’ technology is the isolation of power devices and ...

Production of 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO) from glycerol is a promising route toward glycerol biorefinery. However, the yield of 1,3-PDO is limited due to the requirement of NADH regeneration via glycerol oxidation process, which generates large amounts of undesired byproducts. Glutamate fermentation by Corynebacterium glutamicum is an important oxidation process generating excess NADH. In this st...

glycerol is a promising feedstock for microbial cultivation and production of 1,3 propanediol (1,3 pdo). here we report a newly isolated bacterial strain ba11 from soil, capable of fermenting glycerol to 1,3 pdo, and has been identified to be a strain of klebsiella pneumoniae. strain ba11 was fast growing showing peak 1,3 pdo production in 6 h of cultivation with productivity of 1.2 g/l-h witho...