A mannose-derived furanoid sugar amino acid (Maa) induced helical turns in peptides having repeat units of Maa(Bn(2))-Phe-Leu, which aggregated into head-to-tail duplexes in the longer oligomers.

this paper presents a new method called vespiary regular hexagonal (vrh) model to calculate parasitic capacitance between conductor wire filaments of one turn of a coil and between conductor wires filament and liner and also total capacitance of n-turns having single-layers, multi-conductor wire filaments of the helix magneto cumulative generator (mcg) coil. the presented method is an analytica...

The use of an alphabet of line segments to compose a curve is a possible approach for curve data compression. Curves having more sophisticated topology with self-intersections can be handled by methods considering recursive decomposition of the canvas containing the curve. We propose a graph theory based algorithm for tracing the curve directly to eliminate the decomposition needs. This approac...

Restrictions of interactivity in dialogue are often seen as having negative impact on the efficiency of the dialogue, as they affect the ability to give immediate feedback (Whittaker, 2003). We have conducted experiments with one such restriction common in spoken dialogue systems, namely push-totalk. While our results confirm many predictions from the literature (fewer but longer turns; reducti...

U-turn is a complex driving manoeuvre entailing 180-degree turn to change the direction of travel towards the opposite direction. A cross-sectional survey based on convenience sampling was conducted at 120 U-turns in Karachi from February to October 2013. Shopkeepers operating in the close vicinity of U-turns were interviewed. Out of the 120 U-turns studied, 87(72.5%) were without median and 33...

results linear mixed model analyses showed that athletes slept on average 43 minutes longer when they slept during usual (night) times than during abnormal (day) times. in general, sleep duration decreased during the race with on average 18 minutes per period. conclusions this pilot study shows that, even under extreme violation of sleep hygiene rules, there still is an apparent effect of circa...

We investigate factors that affect speaking rate in conversation, using large corpora of conversational telephone speech in English and Chinese. We find that speaking rate as a function of “turn” length rises rapidly for turns from one to seven words; remains level (when final words are included) or falls gradually (if final words are excluded) for turns of medium length; and rises slowly for l...

We investigate factors that affect speaking rate in conversation, using large corpora of conversational telephone speech in English and Chinese. We find that speaking rate as a function of “turn” length rises rapidly for turns from one to seven words; remains level (when final words are included) or falls gradually (if final words are excluded) for turns of medium length; and rises slowly for l...