Department for NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Germany Laboratory of Chromatin Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Am Fassberg 11, 37077, Germany Biaffin GmbH & Co KG, Heinrich-Plett Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany Biomolecular Spectroscopy and Single-Molecule Detection, Max Pla...

This paper explores the use of Spherical Harmonics to represent the reflectance function of a 3D surface with known geometry. It is shown that reflectance can be conceived of as a convolution in the angular domain. Spherical Harmonics are used to define a frequency domain in which convolution in the angular domain is equivalent to multiplication in the spherical harmonic frequency domain. This ...

pound responsible for the pungent character of various hot peppers (Capsicum), and it is famous for its pungent taste, burning sensation, and various effects on body temperature and gastric acid secretion. These features of capsaicin are considered to be generated by capsaicin associating with the capsaicin receptor, or the transient receptor potential cation channel of vanilloid type 1 (TRPV1)...

The homology of Pseudomonas cytochrome c-551 with eukaryotic cytochromes c is examined with a computer-based procedure devised to determine whether similarities exist between these proteins. One method is given by which the more recently evolved cytochromes c might have arisen from the Pseudomonas protein. This procedure involves only common genetic phenomena and accounts for most of the struct...

Markov Decision Process (MDP) has been used as a theoretical framework to solve AI problems for many decades. However, thus far most of the results cannot be effectively applied to most real world domains, which have large state spaces, indeterminant (fuzzy) goal states, incorrect guiding functions, and partial observability in general. This paper explores abstractions, approximations that occu...

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Arbutin (Arb) and deoxyArbutin (dA) are both effective hypopigmentation agents. However, they are glucoside derivatives of hydroquinone (HQ), which may be decayed into HQ under higher energy environments. Therefore, safety and toxicity are very important issues when considering the usage of these compounds. However, no study has verified the properties of Ultra-Violet B (UVB)-irradiated Arb and...

A membrane electrode assembly (MEA) microbial fuel cell (MFC) with a non-woven paper fabric filter (NWF) was investigated as an alternative to a proton exchange membrane (PEM) separator. The MFC with a NWF generated a cell voltage of 545 mV and a maximum power density of 1027 mW/m(3), which was comparable to that obtained from MFCs with a PEM (551 mV, 609 mW/m(3)). The MFC with a NWF showed sta...

522 Ann Dermatol Received June 22, 2013, Revised July 16, 2013, Accepted for publication July 21, 2013 Corresponding author: Pei-Guang Wang, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui 230022, China. Tel: 86-551-6292-2235, Fax: 86-551-6516-1014, E-mail: wpg2370@ 163.com This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attri...