In this paper it is proposed a new wavelength converter placement scheme called First Load Priority FLP, useful for designing and planning of optical networks with sparsepartial wavelength conversion architecture. A performance evaluation of FLP working in different scenarios is provided. Comparing to other wavelength converter placement schemes like MBPF, TOT and XC, FLP achieved better perfor...

The FLP species bis(2-(TMP)phenyl)chloroborane (TMP = 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine)(1) was prepared and crystallized as a monomeric Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) displaying no apparent B-N interaction. Species 1 readily reacts with H2 at room temperature to generate reversibly the zwitterionic H2 activation product 2. Interestingly, in the presence of a base, 2 releases HCl, generating the novel...

A total of 61 clinical yeast isolates of Candida, Cryptococcus, Blastoschizomyces, and Saccharomyces spp. were used to compare two identification techniques, VITEK 2 and ITS2-fragment length polymorphism analysis (ITS2-FLP), with ID32C as the reference method. ID32C identified 58 isolates correctly. ITS2-FLP with Instagene DNA extraction identified 59 isolates. ITS2-FLP combined with boiling-fr...

The frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) mediated hydrosilylation of pentafulvenes is described yielding allyl silanes with high regioselectivity in excellent yields. While phenyl substituted allyl silanes undergo B(C6F5)3-mediated rearrangement to vinyl silanes, dimethyl derivatives experience FLP-catalyzed hydrogenation followed by an unprecedented protodesilylation. This observation allowed the metal...

The aim of the study was to improve understanding of the role of amoebae in the protection and proliferation of pathogens in distribution systems. Although ‘amoebae’ was used in the request for proposal (RFP), free living protozoa (FLP) is a more appropriate term that the research team has used throughout this report. Strictly, amoebae are only part of the FLP that interact with bacteria and ar...

We report an improved vector, pCAGGS-FLPe, for transient expression of the enhanced FLP recombinase in mouse ES cells and oocytes. In standard transfection experiments, about 6% of total ES colonies showed FLP recombination, albeit with mosaicism within each colony. After microinjection of pCAGGS-FLPe into oocytes, about one-third of heterozygotic mice born showed complete FLP recombination. Th...

Novel genetically engineered mouse models using the Cre-loxP or the Flp-FRT systems have generated useful reagents to manipulate the mouse genome in a temporally-regulated and tissue-specific manner. By incorporating a constitutive Cre driver line into a mouse model in which FRT-regulated genes in other cell types are regulated by Flp-FRT recombinase, gene expression can be manipulated simultan...

BACKGROUND Reactions of vaccinia topoisomerase and the tyrosine site-specific recombinase Flp with methylphosphonate (MeP) substituted DNA substrates, have provided important insights into the electrostatic features of the strand cleavage and strand joining steps catalyzed by them. A conserved arginine residue in the catalytic pentad, Arg-223 in topoisomerase and Arg-308 in Flp, is not essentia...

A class of fuzzy linear programming (FLP) problems with fuzzy coefficients based on fuzzy relations is introduced, the concepts of feasible and (α, β)-maximal and minimal solutions are defined. The class of crisp (classical) LP problems can be embedded into the class of FLP ones. Moreover, for FLP problems a new concept of duality is introduced and the weak and strong duality theorems are deriv...

Water availability and pH are important factors to consider determine the suitability of a material for use as growing medium. Unfortunately, most horticultural substrates characterized by their water repellency. This is case with peat moss which hydrophobic acidic. Synthetic surfactants required improve its wettability. In this study, combination phosphorylated wood pulp fibers (FLP) zeolite p...