Following a meal, an animal can exhibit dramatic shifts in physiology and morphology, as well as a substantial increase in metabolic rate associated with the energetic costs of processing a meal (i.e. specific dynamic action, SDA). However, little is known about the effects of digestion on another important physiological and energetically costly trait: immune function. Thus, we tested two compe...

Relevance feedback (RF) is an interactive process which refines the retrievals by utilizing user’s feedback history. Most researchers strive to develop new RF techniques and ignore the advantages of existing ones. In this paper, we propose an image relevance reinforcement learning (IRRL) model for integrating existing RF techniques. Various integration schemes are presented and a long-term shar...

Studies in this and other laboratories have disclosed a variety of starch-digesting rumen organisms, including Streptococcu bouis (Hungate et al., 1952), several cellulolytic strains (Hungate, 1950), and various non-cellulolytic bacteria (Gall et al., 1947; Gall and Huhtanen, 1951; Huhtanen and Gall, 1953a, b; Bryant and Burkey, 1953a,b; Jayko, 1953; McPherson, 1953; van der Wath, 1948) as well...

Table 1. Cleavage rule Digesting Reagent C Armillaria B AspN B Thermolysin B Clostripain A LysC A Pancreatic Elastase A Digesting Reagent C CNBr_Cys { Chymotrypsin A if Trypsin A V8 Ammonium Acetate A V8 Phosphate Buffer A Hydroxylamine A Mild Acid Hydrolysis A We present a stochastic model of proteolytic digestion of a proteome, assuming the distribution of parent protein lengths in the proteo...

Neutrophils, the most abundant type of leukocytes in blood, can form neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). These are pathogen-trapping structures generated by expulsion of the neutrophil's DNA with associated proteolytic enzymes. NETs produced by infection can promote cancer metastasis. We show that metastatic breast cancer cells can induce neutrophils to form metastasis-supporting NETs in the...

This paper proposes an automatic labeling and digesting method for lecture speech. The method utilizes same sections, such as same words or same phrases that are thought to be important and are repeated in the speech. To extract the same sections, we have proposed a new efficient algorithm, called Shift Continuous DP, because it is an extension of Continuous DP and realizes fast matching betwee...

The fungivorous amoeba Protostelium aurantium feeds on a wide range of fungal species. image shows amoebae digesting GFP-expressing cells the human pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis. For further details, readers are referred to article by Radosa et al. p. e13389 this issue.

microwave energy has potential for the efficient heating of minerals. minerals or materials, which couple to microwave energy are called dielectrics and many valuable minerals are found to be dielectric. the mineral ilmenite is one which shows good dielectric heating characteristics. in this paper, the effect of microwave heat energy on the partial reduction of oxidized ilmenite oxidized in ...