purpose: since there have been some debates about using supa brand silk, this study was designed to elucidate the possible differences between supa and ethicon silk in suturing rat skin. materials & methods: this study was carried out on 60 female spragne-dawly albino rats. the animals were randomly assigned to two equal groups. in group one, 3/0 silk, supa product, and in group two, 3/0 ...

Bacterial plasminogen (Pg) activators generate plasmin to degrade fibrin blood clots and other proteins that modulate the pathogenesis of infection, yet despite strong homology between mammalian Pgs, the activity of bacterial Pg activators is thought to be restricted to the Pg of their host mammalian species. Thus, we found that Streptococcus uberis Pg activator (SUPA), isolated from a Streptoc...

The therapeutic properties of plasminogen activators are dictated by their mechanism of action. Unlike staphylokinase, a single domain protein, streptokinase, a 3-domain (alpha, beta, and gamma) molecule, nonproteolytically activates human (h)-plasminogen and protects plasmin from inactivation by alpha(2)-antiplasmin. Because a streptokinase-like mechanism was hypothesized to require the strept...

We present a new demand-driven flowand context-sensitive pointer analysis with strong updates for C programs, called SUPA, that enables computing points-to information via value-flow refinement, in environments with small time and memory budgets such as IDEs. We formulate SUPA by solving a graphreachability problem on an inter-procedural value-flow graph representing a program’s def-use chains,...

REUBEN S. ASPDEN, NATHAN R. GEMMELL, PETER A. MORRIS, DANIEL S. TASCA, LENA MERTENS, MICHAEL G. TANNER, ROBERT A. KIRKWOOD, ALESSANDRO RUGGERI, ALBERTO TOSI, ROBERT W. BOYD, GERALD S. BULLER, ROBERT H. HADFIELD, AND MILES J. PADGETT* SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK SUPA, School of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinbur...

The receptor for urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA-R, CD87) is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored 50 to 65 kD glycoprotein that, by regulating membrane-associated plasmin activity, may facilitate the invasion of inflammatory and malignant cells. Certain other GPI-anchored glycoproteins are shed from the cell membrane and exist as soluble products in vitro and in vivo. To determine...

D. R. Murray, P. Öhberg, D. Gomila, and S. M. Barnett Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom Department of Physics, SUPA, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, United Kingdom IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Campus Universitat Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Received 11 May 2009; pu...

S. Vespucci,1 A. Winkelmann,2 G. Naresh-Kumar,1 K. P. Mingard,3 D. Maneuski,4 P. R. Edwards,1 A. P. Day,5 V. O’Shea,4 and C. Trager-Cowan1,* 1Department of Physics, SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom 2Bruker-Nano, Am Studio 2D, 12489 Berlin, Germany 3National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 0LW, United Kingdom 4School of Physics and Astronomy, SUPA, ...

A. Regularity Conditions Within the text we have referred to regularity conditions on the MDP: Regularity conditions A.1: p(s′|s, a), ∇ap(s|s, a), μθ(s), ∇θμθ(s), r(s, a), ∇ar(s, a), p1(s) are continuous in all parameters and variables s, a, s′ and x. Regularity conditions A.2: there exists a b and L such that sups p1(s) < b, supa,s,s′ p(s′|s, a) < b, supa,s r(s, a) < b, supa,s,s′ ||∇ap(s|s, a)...