We conducted experiments in which participants were presented with artificial sounds that were intended to convey the attitudes of three different agents: a MindStorms robot, an AIBO robot, and a laptop PC. The participants were then asked to select the correct attitudes based on the sounds expressed by these three agents. The results showed that the participants had higher interpretation rates...

The authors recently noticed that the published amino acid sequence of the protein C epitope tag component of the CNAP tag was incorrect. The published amino acid sequence of the protein C (PC) epitope tag was EDQVDPIDGK and should have been EDQVDPRLIDGK. Thus, the correct amino acid sequence of the CNAP tag employed is: MEDQVDPRLIDGK-GGAGG-HHHHHHHHHH (protein C [PC] epitope tag is underlined, ...

The preservation for electron microscopy of saturated phospholipids in general, and phosphatidyl choline (PC)in particular, remains and unsolved problem since OsO(4) and glutaraldehyde are incapable of interacting with PC directly. However, by introducing tannic acid preceding osmication, we were able to demonstrate highly ordered, preserved lamellar structures in model experiments with saturat...

Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness of iodine-125 (125I) seed implantation for pancreatic cancer (PC), and preliminarily evaluate the clinical value of a self-developed three-dimensional (3D) visualized seed planning and navigation system in 125I seed implantation for treatment of PC. Patients and methods Our team retrospectively reviewed 25 PC patients who underwent 125I seed implantati...

Anaplerosis, the synthesis of citric acid cycle intermediates, by pancreatic beta cell mitochondria has been proposed to be as important for insulin secretion as mitochondrial energy production. However, studies designed to lower the rate of anaplerosis in the beta cell have been inconclusive. To test the hypothesis that anaplerosis is important for insulin secretion, we lowered the activity of...

During invasion, Plasmodium, the causative agent of malaria, wraps itself in a parasitophorous vacuole membrane (PVM), which constitutes a critical interface between the parasite and its host cell. Within hepatocytes, each Plasmodium sporozoite generates thousands of new parasites, creating high demand for lipids to support this replication and enlarge the PVM. Here, a global analysis of the to...

The speed of current PCs enables them to decode and play an MPEG bitstream in real time. The encoding process, however, cannot be done in real-time. The purpose of this thesis is to produce a low-cost real-time Digital Signal Processor (DSP) implementation of an MPEG encoder. The DSP will provide an MPEG bitstream to the PC that can be saved to disk. The input to the DSP will be an analog audio...