The dUTPase (Dut) enzymes, encoded by almost all free-living organisms and some viruses, prevent the misincorporation of uracil into DNA. We previously proposed that trimeric Duts are regulatory proteins involved in different cellular processes; including the phage-mediated transfer of the Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity island SaPIbov1. Recently, it has been shown that the structurally unr...

In order to effectively evaluate the accuracy of automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a novel capture device, it is important to create a realistic test data corpus that is representative of realworld noise conditions. Typically, this involves either recording the output of a device under test (DUT) in a noisy environment, or synthesizing an environment over loudspeakers in a way that simula...

The at-speed functional testing of deep sub-micron devices equipped with high-speed I/O ports and the asynchronous nature of such I/O transactions poses significant challenges. In this paper, the problem of nondeterminism in the output response of the device-under-test (DUT) is described. This can arise due to limited automated test equipment (ATE) edge placement accuracy (EPA) in the source sy...

BACKGROUND The relationship between the shape of the first metatarsal head and hallux valgus deformity remains controversial. The purpose of the present study was to retrospectively analyze differences in the radiographic appearance of the shape of the lateral edge of the first metatarsal head between women with normal feet and those with hallux valgus and to clarify the relationship between th...

A facile and universal method was developed to evaluate the relative water stability of porous MOFs and morphological evolution was achieved by controlling the volume ratio of DMF and H2O. The relative water stability of the studied MOFs is in the order HKUST-1 > MOF-505 ∼ UMCM-150 > NOTT-101 > DUT-23(Cu) > [Zn2(BPnDC)2(DABCO)] ∼ [Cu3(TPTrC)2(DABCO)] > MOF-5. In addition, DUT-23(Cu) [Cu6(BTB)4(...

This paper deals with Hybrid multisite testing of VLSI chips by utilizing automatic test equipment (ATE) in connection with built-in self-test (BIST). The performance of a multisite testing process is analyzed using device-under-test (DUT) parameters (such as yield and average number of faults per DUT) as well as test process features (such as number of channels, coverage and touchdown time for...

We discuss a practical implementation of a photon-counting detector calibration using correlated photon pairs produced by parametric down-conversion. In this calibration scheme, the detection of a first photon triggers the measurement sequence aimed at detection of a second photon by a detector under test (DUT). We also describe measurements of radiant power with a photon-counting detector, whi...

We describe a method for the generation of random point deletions in any target DNA sequence using synthetic mixed oligonucleotides. A mixed pool of oligonucleotides, which contain single nucleotide deletions randomly distributed throughout the full length, was generated by a modification of the synthesis cycle of an automated DNA synthesiser that allowed the inefficient incorporation of nucleo...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to utilize three-dimensional kinematic (motion) analysis to determine whether gender differences existed in knee valgus kinematics in high school basketball athletes when performing a landing maneuver. The hypothesis of this study was that female athletes would demonstrate greater valgus knee motion (ligament dominance) and greater side-to-side (leg dominan...

BACKGROUND There are few studies comparing the biomechanical properties of angled blade plate and locking compression plates in supracondylar osteotomy. In the current randomized study, we prospectively compared the clinical and radiological outcomes of supracondylar osteotomy using these two plates. METHODS Forty patients with valgus knee malalignment were randomly assigned to two equal numb...