We report on the generation and phenotype of mutant alleles of multiple edematous wings (mew), the gene encoding the alpha PS1 subunit of the PS1 integrin of Drosophila. None of the six alleles examined makes detectable protein, and one allele results from a chromosome break near the middle of the translated sequence, so we are confident that we have described the null phenotype. In contrast to...

Native egg white protein with high level of acidic amino acid residues (pI = 4.8) and hydrophilic nature was transformed into its methylated derivative (MEW), acquiring rather hydrophobic and basic character (pI = 8). The MIC of MEW against ten studied bacteria (G(+) and G(-)) ranged between 0.5 and 1 μg/disc matching or excelling the comparative values of some known specific antibiotics (rangi...

Spectrum handover is a significant topic in the cognitive radio networks to assure an efficient data transmission in the cognitive radio user’s communications. This paper proposes a comparison between three spectrum handover models: VIKOR, SAW and MEW. Four evaluation metrics are used. These metrics are, accumulative average of failed handover, accumulative average of handover performed, accumu...

During the Noughties in the UK, we have seen a massive explosion in unsecured personal debt mirrored to a lesser extent by an exponential rise in secured debt. Much of the secured debt is attributed to an increase in Mortgage Equity Withdrawal (MEW), that is, borrowing secured on the housing stock but not invested in it. In this paper, the question posed is: Does MEW exert positive pressure on ...

This paper describes the design and development of a session-layer load balancing mechanism and its deployment in a mobile surveillance system named Mobile E-Witness (MEW), which we have developed (Ghini et al., Multimedia Tools and Applications, 37(3), 293–318, 2008). The load balancing mechanism proposed in this paper allows MEW to effectively meet interactivity requirements and it is based o...

Spectrum handover is a significant topic in the cognitive radio networks to assure an efficient data transmission in the cognitive radio user’s communications. This paper proposes a comparison between three spectrum handover models: VIKOR, SAW and MEW. Four evaluation metrics are used. These metrics are, accumulative average of failed handover, accumulative average of handover performed, accumu...

While melt electrowriting (MEW) can result in complex microstructures, research demonstrating such fabrication with active materials is limited. Herein, magnetoresponsive poly(?-caprolactone) (PCL) inks containing up to 10 wt% of iron-oxide (Fe3O4) nanoparticles are used produce fiber diameters 9.2 ± 0.6 µm ordered microstructures when processed by MEW. Introducing the Fe3O4 has a minimal overa...

Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-co-TrFE)) is an electroactive polymer with growing interest for applications in biomedical materials and flexible electronics. In this study, a solvent-free additive manufacturing technique called melt electrowriting (MEW) has been utilized to fabricate well-defined microperiodic structures of the copolymer (P(VDF-co-TrFE)). MEW highly visco...