Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers are one of the most effective and accurate tools for microbial identification. In this study, we applied SCAR markers for the rapid and accurate detection of Phytophthora katsurae, the casual agent of chestnut ink disease in Korea. In this study, we developed seven SCAR markers specific to P. katsurae using random amplified polymorphic DNA ...

This study uses low-angle (LAXS) and wide-angle (WAXS) X-ray synchrotron scattering, volume measurements and thin layer chromatography to determine the structure and interactions of SOPC, SOPC/cholesterol mixtures, SOPC/peptide and SOPC/cholesterol/peptide mixtures. N-acetyl-LWYIK-amide (LWYIK) represents the naturally-occurring CRAC motif segment in the pretransmembrane region of the gp41 prot...

This paper describes the tools, techniques, and devices used to design embedded products with system–on-a-chip (SoC) type solutions using a large Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) with an internal processor core. This new FPGAbased approach is called system-on-a-programmable-chip (SoPC ). The performance tradeoffs present in SoPC systems is compared to more traditional design approaches. Com...

This paper presents a new methodology to develop SoC/SoPC applications. This methodology is based on UML and MDD and capitalizes the achievements of "Electronic System Level" community by taking into account the new MARTE profile dedicated to real-time embedded systems. In the MOPCOM SoC/SoPC research project, a tooling has been developed to support this SoC/SoPC methodology, the MARTE profile,...

digital watermarking techniques have been exploited to protect the copyright of multimedia data in the emerging systems. In this paper, an efficient watermarking approach for System-on-Programmable-Chip (SOPC) realization is proposed. We analyzed the software efficiency of watermark embedding with Nios-II soft-CPU and proposed a cost-effective architecture for the design of Discrete Cosine Tran...

BACKGROUND In 2007, the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) provided a comprehensive set of recommendations and standards for the provision of adequate pediatric palliative care. A number of studies have shown deficits in pediatric palliative care compared to EAPC standards. In Germany, pediatric palliative care patients can be referred to specialized outpatient palliative care (SOPC...

The segregation of plasmid F of Escherichia coli is highly reliable. The Sop partition locus, responsible for this stable maintenance, is composed of two genes, sopA and sopB and a centromere, sopC, consisting of 12 direct repeats of 43 bp. Each repeat carries a 16-bp inverted repeat motif to which SopB binds to form a nucleoprotein assembly called the partition complex. A database search for s...

The use of agroindustry by-products as reinforcements and/or composites filler is an innovative and economically attractive option that still under study. Hence, the present work aims to study composite foams based on cassava-starch sunflower oil press cake (SOPC), industry by-product, using urea additive enhance biocomposites foaming capacity. Filler content (0, 20, 40 wt%) addition effect foa...

ParB proteins are one of the three essential components of partition systems that actively segregate bacterial chromosomes and plasmids. In binding to centromere sequences, ParB assembles as nucleoprotein structures called partition complexes. These assemblies are the substrates for the partitioning process that ensures DNA molecules are segregated to both sides of the cell. We recently identif...

In this work the co-synthesis method, that optimizes dynamically reconfigurable multiprocessor SOPC system architectures, is presented. The algorithm maximizes speed of a SOPC system, taking into consideration the space constraints of the FPGA. The algorithm starts with the initial solution, where all tasks are assigned to only one general purpose processor module. Next, it produces new solutio...