Engineers designing a continuous flow production line consisting of machines and buffers in series, have to determine the optimal sizes of the intermediate buffers. When the machines operating on the product are unreliable, this dimensioning decision becomes even more difficult. This paper aims to provide some insight into the optimal sizes of intermediate buffers in a continuous flow transfer ...

soils bacteria are frequently faced with various adverse environmental conditions and have developed a complex regulatory network to respond rapidly to environmental changes. in this study usefulness and applicability of stress proteins of bacteria which are produced after stress conditions were examined. the adaptation of soil bacteria involves the induction of stress proteins provide a nonspe...

Cytosolic Ca(2+) buffers bind to a large fraction of Ca(2+) as it enters a cell, shaping Ca(2+) signals both spatially and temporally. In this way, cytosolic Ca(2+) buffers regulate excitation-secretion coupling and short-term plasticity of release. The posterior pituitary is composed of peptidergic nerve terminals, which release oxytocin and vasopressin in response to Ca(2+) entry. Secretion o...

In this paper, objective is to first characterize the need of a heterogeneous reconfigurable router and show how an NoC built with reconfigurable routers allows the use of buffers with smaller depths. These in turn have a similar performance w.r.t. an NoC using a fixed size router, the latter showing a large buffer depth and incurring lower efficiency than the design presented here which can al...

In this paper, a multi-server queueing system providing service to two correlated flows of requests was considered. Non-preemptive priority granted one flow via the preliminary delay in intermediate buffers with different rates extracting from buffers. Customers’ impatience during waiting and main taken into account. The possibility use results mathematical analysis for managerial goals is nume...

In here we consider an overall approach to design the memory sub system of embedded systems. We focus on the use of stream buffers versus the use of caches. Stream buffers are useful to handle stream like memory access patterns (mainly array elements in loops) while caches are better suited to handle irregular accesses (e.g. traversing binary trees). Stream buffers are more efficient in terms o...

Back Cover: The blood plasma protein fibrinogen can assemble into fibers in vitro based on different mechanisms. Self-assembly is either induced by denaturing buffers, non-denaturing buffers or substrate interactions. Understanding how these factors influence fibrillogenesis important for developing fibrinogen-based biomaterials with fibrous architecture future tissue engineering applications. ...

Watershed analyses of nutrient removal in riparian buffers have been limited by the geographic methods used to map buffers and by the statistical models used to test and quantify buffer effects on stream nutrient levels. We combined geographic methods that account for buffer prevalence along flow paths connecting croplands to streams with improved statistical models to test for buffer effects o...

watershed scale irnpact. Our objective was to estimate the watershed scale impact of grass buEers by comparing sediment and agichemical losses from two adjacent 14 1 165 hectare watersheds, one with conservation buffers and one without. Rainfall derived m o f f events frorn 2002-2003 were monitored for water runoff, TSS, phosphorous and atrazine loss. A conservation-watershed included 0.8 Ism o...

In IC designs which incorporate multiple power supply voltages, the interfacing of signals between blocks with different power supplies can be achieved through I/O buffer circuits, which demand high-performance as well as ESD protection for the inputs and outputs. High performance buffers are also desirable for intra-chip interfacing for technologies that require multiple supply voltages. This ...