... 428 aa; nine aa in total) were located near the interface ofthe physiological dimer The Cterminal domain may contain structural features involved in protein–protein interactions to form the physiological ... (disordered inthe ligand-free state in YbgJ) Intheabsenceofthe ligand, the lid part is separated from the active site, which leads to a more open active site Upon the binding of ligand inthe ... conformational change upon the binding of ligand [31] The smaller size of l-glutamine than the substrates for b-lactamase could be one ofthe reasons forthe conformational changes ofthe lid part Experimental...
... also one ofthe leading causes of death inthe world, accounting for 7.6 million (13%) ofthe global mortality in 2005 alone (Cho, 2007) In Singapore, death by cancer is the 2nd highest mortality ... Hence, there is a paramount importance for a deeper understanding ofthe biological mechanism behind hypoxia in tumors in order forthe discovery of endogenous protein markers as well as the development ... Courtois et al., 2002) These isoforms are either truncated at the N- orthe C-terminal but all retain the characteristic core domain critical for DNA binding as well as function relating to apoptosis...
... matrix inversion In this section, we elaborate the use of CMT intheevaluationofthe CRB inthe frequency domain The major advantage ofthe frequency domain evaluation is that it avoids matrix inversion ... domain CRB evaluation and a general closed form expression ofthe CRB for Jake’s model are the novel contributions reported inthe paper The closed form expression ofthe CRB in frequency domain ... j, i ≥ j The form in (31) is useful to calculate the exact CRB inthepresenceof AR colored noise Substituting (31) into (3), and performing the matrix expansion, the FIM entries inthe (N −...
... expression of either the enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), thymidine kinase from Herpes Simplex Virus type (TK), a TK/EGFP fusion protein or a mutated form ofthe HPV16 E6 protein (Fig ... were inserted into pAd5CMV/TCS The construction ofthe corresponding genomes, contained in plasmids, was rapidly achieved (3 days instead of to 10 days with homologous recombination in E coli) In ... protein (E6-6C/6S-F47RΔPDZ), was also successfully sub-cloned [8] This was achieved by inserting a Klenow-repaired EcoRI fragment containing the E6mut ORF into the SwaI site of pAd5CMV/TCS For...
... element ofthe 0-Hecke algebra inthe πi basis Then for any i ∈ DL (m), πi m = m, and for any i ∈ DL (m) then πi m ≥R m, in left weak order This is an adaptation of a standard fact inthe theory of ... to H0 (SN ) In particular, finding this linear basis for H0 (SN ) allows the easy recovery ofthe bases forthe indecomposable modules for any M < N the electronic journal of combinatorics 18 (2011), ... diagram D, we obtain the masked word w D by applying the sign of i in D to each instance of i in w For example, forthe word w = (1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2) and D = + − +, the masked word is w D = (1,...
... distinguish aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ from those formed inthepresenceof Zn2+ Taken together, these results suggest that Ab aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ or Zn2+ are less ... aggregates formed inthepresenceof Cu2+ [(i) and (iii)] or Zn2+ [(ii) and (iv)], or as fibrils formed inthepresenceof EDTA [(v) and (vi)] The amount of amyloid or amyloid-like structure within the ... elements or because they are deeply buried inthe core ofthe fibril [12,13] Samples verified by AFM and ThT analysis to contain the fibrillar forms of Ab(1–40) and Ab(1–42) (fibrils formed inthe presence...
... Although being independent of NSD , this point is a function ofthe destination index m Increasing the NSD while keeping NR constant is therefore in favor of protocol A1 If the number of relays increases, ... (20) Inthe following, we derive expressions forthe perturbed single-hop channel estimates obtained by protocols A1 or B1 These are then used as basis forthe subsequent performance comparison of ... samples Note that the direct link is not taken into account in this work because it is independent of LO phases ofthe relays The quality of its estimates is therefore the same for all four channel...
... The class of problems 1.1 appears in many nonlinear phenomena, for instance, inthe theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3 , inthe generalized reaction-diffusion theory , inthe ... other works see, e.g., 8–20 and references therein for more general nonlinearities inthe terms f and g which include the cases considered by them The principal theorem in considered, in problem ... completes the proof of Theorem 1.6 10 Boundary Value Problems Proof of Main Result: Theorem 1.1 To complete the proof of Theorem 1.1, we will first obtain a classical and positive lower solution for...
... forwarding bit) For each check node ci , we need to assign one bit for message initiating and one word of size d(ci ) for message forwarding Fortunately, the communication links needed to forward ... to perform message initiation and forwarding based on the stored forwarding information The decoder trap detection, shown in Figure 5, is implemented as a logic tree similar to the tree ofthe ... summation terms: the intrinsic information and three information messages In this case, the estimated values for v1 (and v3 ) will be incorrect because all ofthe four summation terms of its estimation...
... ofthe fundamental differences inthe performance of gradient-based estimators such as the LMS algorithm and time-averaged recursive estimators such as the RLS algorithm inthe cases of modeling ... that in this work, each iteration ofthe adaptive algorithm occurs at the symbol rate To examine the convergence ofthe BER here, we employ a sliding window of Nwindow symbols For example, the ... are interested inthe noise-free predictor weights, given by ⎡ where cl are the tap weights ofthe predictor The output ofthe PEF, yPEF,k , is defined as the subtraction ofthe estimate ofthe interference...
... Cronbach’s alpha inthepresenceof inconsistent responses; and to illustrate the use ofthe procedure in evaluating the internal reliability ofthe standard Chinese 12-item Short Form Health Survey ... assess the sensitivity of internal reliability within an anticipated range ofthe proportion of inconsistent responses However, to the best of our knowledge, no method is available for adjusting the ... the other items use a 5-point Likert scale The original scale scores are standardized inthe range of 0-100, but for convenience, we just considered the total score after reverse coding the responses...
... step ofthe alignment algorithm When the first pass is completed, the best scoring cell will provide all the necessary information for reconstructing the alignment: the start ofthe alignment, the ... have little influence on the protein (only the beginning ofthe receptor binding interface is modified) It is also interesting to notice that both the “inducing” and “correcting” frameshifts are ... information about the coding sequences Future work includes further improvements ofthe scoring system, for example in order to focus on the detection of short double correcting frameshifts (two...
... Studies were heterogeneous inthe way they used SOFA The major themes identified intheevaluation studies were investigating the performance of: single SOFA scores at admission or at a fixed time after ... high SOFA score at admission Furthermore, delta SOFA does not take into account whether organ functioning improves after the SOFA score reaches a peak value Combining information of severity of ... with the original (recalibrated) model, the temporal SAPS II model [8] and a temporal SAPS II model including a weighted average ofthe SOFA scores Except for day the model including frequent IOF...
... so, the lower the jamming power (or the higher the signal to jamming ratio), the less accurate the jamming estimates The increased inaccuracy inthe jamming estimates leads in turn to a deterioration ... is then performed by the ML technique Theoretical and simulated vii results show the effectiveness ofthe proposed algorithm in combating follower jamming Using the principle of vector similarity, ... LIKELIHOOD-BASED BEAMFORMING ALGORITHM .44 iii 4.1 Introduction of Maximum Likelihood-based Beamforming Algorithm 44 4.1.1 ML-based Estimation ofthe Ratio of Jamming Fading Gains 45 4.1.2 ...
... A 1 H p2 (50) In (49) xopt represents the value of x intheabsenceof noise The remaining terms in (49) gives the contribution of noise terms in determining the value of x Now we will derive ... when the number of samples is increased the SER performance ofthe scheme gets better The narrow margin of difference between the theoretical and simulated values of SER indicates the validity of ... first makes use ofthe pilot symbol to estimate the relative gain between the jamming components inthe two elements before eliminating the jamming components for data detection Since p2 2s...
... of UFAD combined with RMP or VDG For either ATD, the concentration of contaminant exhaled from the polluting manikin inthe air inhaled by the exposed manikin was found to be independent ofthe ... Associate Professor Arsen Melikov for kindly mailing the papers from Denmark to me and Professor David Wyon for offering viewpoints and sharing expertise on personalize ventilation during his visiting ... is mainly the momentum of supply air, here the momentum is usually small and the buoyancy is the dominant force for creating the room air movement The buoyancy is caused by thepresenceof people...
... presenceorabsenceof sustainability, orof threats to sustainability In order to this, proper sustainability criteria/indicators must provide this information, to indicate our progress in achieving ... skills forthe operation and maintenance ofthe plant (factor 5) is also a subjective factor The level ofthe treatment technology chosen must be compatible with the level ofthe skill ofthe professionals ... insufficient money is spent for O&M phase Therefore, factor 12 should be one ofthe most important considerations inthe selection of appropriate and sustainable technology The availability of...
... that in today's global society, the chances are that they will find themselves conversing, doing business, or otherwise interacting in English with other non-native speakers Have Fun • One ofthe ... difficulties in this way, the others will feel free to ignore them and wait for you to repeat it more clearly Work on Everyone's Difficulties • If you are doing a pronunciation exercise or discussing ... listening, not just to the video or to native speakers, but to each other as well For those students who think it is pointless or even detrimental to listen to other non-native speakers, remind them...