Structural Control Policies (SCP's) are real-time FMS operating policies that guarantee deadlock free operation. SCP's must be correct and scalable. A correct SCP guarantees deadlock free operation while a scalable (polynomial) SCP remains computationally tractable as FMS size increases. The NP-completeness of state safety (is there a sequence of state transitions leading to the empty state?) i...

Health care standards like SCP-ECG (Standard Communication Protocol for Computer Assisted Electrocardiography) aim at enhancing interoperability of digital electrocardiography. However, the complexity of information included in such a file limits the wide adoption of SCP-ECG as the default standard in the field, and restricts its integration with the corresponding EHR (Electronic Health Record)...

Background Operant conditioning of one’s slow cortical potential (SCP) or sensorimotor rhythm (SMR) can be used to control epilepsy or to manipulate external devices, as applied in BCI (Brain-Computer Interface). To be practical, a BCI-system should use as less channels as possible. For this purpose, a wireless biofeedback system was developed that allows feedback of a single EEG-channel in dis...

Machine Learning (ML) applications need large volumes of data to train their models so that they can make high-quality predictions. Given digital revolution enablers such as the Internet Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, this information is generated in quantities terms continuous streams not static datasets it case with most AI (Artificial Intelligence) frameworks. Kafka-ML a novel open-source fr...

To find out the significance of the newest member of the natriuretic peptide family, salmon cardiac peptide (sCP), we have determined the distribution of the peptide and its mRNA as well as the tissue and plasma molecular forms in several teleosts. Using probes based on the salmon sCP cDNA in Northern blot analysis we found mRNA homologous to that of sCP to be present in the heart of 15 fish sp...

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) utilize ion flow from the electrolyte to modulate electrical conductivity of whole bulk organic semiconductor channel. With characteristic mixed ionic-electronic conducting in entire volume, OECTs exhibit high transconductance and act as good transducers, particularly bioelectronics. To gain high-performance OECTs, developing novel polymeric semicondu...

Sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) is a nonenzymatic protein of 13.5 kD which has been shown in in vitro experiments to be required for several stages in cholesterol utilization and biosynthesis. The subcellular localization of SCP-2 has not been definitively established. Using affinity-purified rabbit polyclonal antibodies against electrophoretically pure SCP-2 from rat liver, we demonstrate by ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B/streptococcal cysteine protease (SPE B/SCP) is considered to be one of the virulence factors of Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes) which causes serious diseases such as severe invasive infections and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). There are no reports on the histamine releasing activity of SPE B/SCP from mast cells, althou...

Background: Hypothermic circulatory arrest (HCA) is employed for aortic arch and other complex operations, often with selective cerebral perfusion (SCP). Our previous work has demonstrated real-time evidence of improved brain protection using SCP at 18 8C. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of SCP at warmer temperatures (25 8C) and its impact on operating times. Methods: Pigl...

Sterol carrier protein-2 (SCP-2) is an intracellular protein of Mr 13,096. In vitro studies have shown that it is involved in the transport and metabolism of cholesterol. This protein is believed to participate in these activities by forming a stoichiometric complex with the sterol. Because these activities occur in different intracellular locations, i.e. mitochondria, peroxisomes, and cytosol,...