Previously, we designed and constructed a hybrid of the mussel adhesive protein (MAP) fp-151, which is a fusion protein with six type 1 (fp-1) decapeptide repeats at each type 5 (fp-5) terminus. Through various cell-adhesion analyses, we previously demonstrated that fp-151 has the potential to be used as a cell or tissue bioadhesive. In the present study, to improve the cell-adhesion properties...

This handout discusses finite fields: how to construct them, properties of elements in a finite field, and relations between different finite fields (including their Galois groups). We write Z/(p) and Fp interchangeably for the field of size p. Here is an executive summary of the main results. • Every finite field has prime power order. • For every prime power, there is a finite field of that o...

We present our recent progress in filled pause (FP) modeling for a highly spontaneous medical transcription task. Our studies confirm that FP modeling is an important topic for spontaneous speech applications, which must be explicitly addressed in acoustic, lexical, and language modeling. We provide a framework for datadriven lexical modeling of FP acoustic variability with respect to phonemic ...

Since the report by Fietz and Webb (Phys. Rev.1968, 178, 657–667), who considered pinning force density, Fp→=Jc→×B→ (where Jc is critical current density B applied magnetic flux density), in isotropic superconductors as a unique function of reduced field, BBc2 Bc2 upper field), Fp→ has been scaled based on ratio, for which there widely used Kramer–Dew–Hughes scaling law Fp→B=Fp,maxBBc2p1−BBc2q,...

The aim of this double-blind single center study (the COPE study) was to investigate the effect of discontinuation of the inhaled corticosteroid fluticasone propionate (FP) on exacerbations and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. After 4 months of treatment with FP (1,000 microg/day), 244 patients were randomized to either continue FP or to rec...

The floor plate (FP), a signaling center and a structure rich in radial glia-like cells, has been traditionally thought to be devoid of neurons and neuronal progenitors. However, in the midbrain, the FP contains neurons of the dopaminergic (DA) lineage that require contact with radial glia-like cells for their induction. We, therefore, decided to explore the interaction relationship between rad...

In mining frequent itemsets, one of most important algorithm is FP-growth. FP-growth proposes an algorithm to compress information needed for mining frequent itemsets in FP-tree and recursively constructs FP-trees to find all frequent itemsets. In this paper, we propose the EFP-growth (enhanced FPgrowth) algorithm to achieve the quality of FP-growth. Our proposed method implemented the EFPGrowt...

Normal Syrian hamster females contain a serum protein not found by simple gel diffusion assay in normal adult males. This sex-limited protein was called female protein (FP). Low levels of FP were found in sera from normal weanling male hamsters. Adult male hamsters castrated or treated with diethylstilbestrol also developed serum FP, which could be suppressed by administration of testosterone. ...

We show that if an NP-complete set or a coNP-complete set is polynomial-time disjunc-tive truth-table reducible to a sparse set then FP NP jj = FP NP log]. With a similar argument we show also that if SAT is O(log n)-approximable then FP NP jj = FP NP log]. Since FP NP jj = FP NP log] implies that SAT is O(logn)-approximable BFT97], it follows from our result that the two hypotheses are equival...

BACKGROUND Promoting family planning (FP) is a key strategy for health, economic and population growth. Sub-Saharan Africa, with one of the lowest contraceptive prevalence and highest fertility rates globally, contributes half of the global maternal deaths. Improving the quality of FP services, including enhancing pre-service FP teaching, has the potential to improve contraceptive prevalence. I...