... Biofuel Production Wataru Takahashi and Tadashi Takamizo 27 91 Chapter Bioactive Beads-Mediated Transformation of Rice with Large DNA Fragments Containing Aegilops tauschii Genes, withSpecialReference ... reporter genes in studies to optimize the Agrobacterium-meditated transformation protocols but also with agronomical importance genes, such as quality improvement, disease resistance or drought tolerance ... also applied to induce tolerance to Sigatoka leaf spot caused by Mycosphaerella fijiensis in banana by transferring endochitinase gene of ThEn-42 from Trichoderma harzianum together with the grape...
... possible, even with lower voltages However, they are prone to problems with power dissipation, but are tolerant to dust and humidity Actuators based on piezoelectricity, magnetostriction and ... their eventual integration into RF circuits 1.4.7 Electrothermal actuators In electrothermal actuators, heat is applied to a bimorph beam the expansion of which is used to generate the mechanical ... distort the filtered signal and may cause loss of fidelity One approach to overcome this difficulty is to restrict the signal to very small variations about a dc bias It is fairly reasonable to...
... planar inductors 4.3.8 Variable inductors 4.3.9 Polymer-based inductors 4.4 MEMS capacitors 4.4.1 MEMS gap-tuning capacitors 4.4.2 MEMS area-tuning capacitors 4.4.3 Dielectric tunable capacitors 4.5 ... sheets of smart skin with integrated sensors and actuators at the µm to mm scale For some applications (say airfoil surface), the smart skin substrate has to be flexible to conform to the airfoil shape ... Micromachined inductors 4.3.3 Effect of inductor layout 4.3.4 Reduction of stray capacitance of planar inductors 4.3.5 Approaches for improving the quality factor 4.3.6 Folded inductors 4.3.7 Modeling...
... main text to allow the analysis to proceed without interruption The Bibliography contains references not only to all the authors mentioned in the text but also to many other contributors to the ... cofactor Aij is then defined as a signed first minor: Aij = (−1)i+j Mij (2.3.7) It is customary to omit the adjective first and to refer simply to minors and cofactors and it is convenient to regard ... their first cofactors But first cofactors of an rth cofactor of An+1 are (r + 1)th cofactors of An+1 which, in this case, are rth cofactors of An Hence, in this case, an rth cofactor of An+1 can...
... demonstrated to respond to NH3 and NO [62,63] Many materials have been added to this sensing material in order to enhance the sensitivity and the selectivity towards these two gasses The response to the ... required in the order of a minute It is unfavourable to inject too much ammonia for this is emitted into the atmosphere where it adds to the total pollution, known as ammonia-slip The injected ... ammonia reacts with a reagent With the second principle optical absorption detection is applied as a method to sense gasses 4.4.1 Spectrophotometric ammonia detection Spectrophotometry is a technique...
... equal to each other and they merge into one wide band ranging from 476 nm to 533 nm The blue and green bands are characterized by radiation transition of electrons from conduction band to 184 ... acceptor levels and levels of Cu2+ ions in the band gap of ZnS, respectively in which acceptor is vacancies of Zn bonding to Cl (VZn - Cl)[5-7] Fig.4 shows the PL spectra of bulk sample ZnO:Co with ... 181-187 187 the conduction band down to acceptor levels and levels of Cu2+ ions in the band gap of ZnS, respectively in which acceptor is vacancies of Zn bonding to Cl (VZn - Cl) The 693 nm band...
... 263 nm, probably due to the preference of cisplatin to bind with guanines occurring in the loop of the G-quadruplex motif, and these N7 nitrogens of guanine are not associated with Hoogsteen pairing ... Fig 5A The variability of the cisplatin mode to bind with G-rich sequences is vast; in principle, there is the possibility to bind within each guanine, to form intrastrand and interstrand bifunctional ... is unclear how cisplatin induces cytotoxicity but it is widely attributed to the formation of the major 1,2-GG adduct because the tumor response correlates with the levels of 1,2-GG adducts [21]...
... matrix with spectral measure µ (and P−1 ≡ 0) The more usual convention in the orthogonal polynomial literature is to start numbering of {an } and {bn } with n = and then to have (1.4) with (an ... the one -to- one correspondence between µ’s and J’s, it is natural to ask how properties of one are reflected in the other One is especially interested in J’s “close” to the free matrix, J0 with an ... Flaschka in [17] To state these rules, it is natural to change variables from E to z via (1.13) E=z+ z We choose the solution of (1.13) with |z| < 1, namely z = E − E2 − , √ √ with µ > for µ >...
... main text to allow the analysis to proceed without interruption The Bibliography contains references not only to all the authors mentioned in the text but also to many other contributors to the ... cofactor Aij is then defined as a signed first minor: Aij = (−1)i+j Mij (2.3.7) It is customary to omit the adjective first and to refer simply to minors and cofactors and it is convenient to regard ... their first cofactors But first cofactors of an rth cofactor of An+1 are (r + 1)th cofactors of An+1 which, in this case, are rth cofactors of An Hence, in this case, an rth cofactor of An+1 can...
... onto its orthogonal complement F ⊥ , and the R-basis B1 onto the dual-basis of the orthogonal projection p(B2 ) of B2 onto F ⊥ Since Y = Re Z is the generator matrix of p(B2 ) with respect to ... I had to leave for a meeting in Boston only nine particularly recalcitrant ones remained In Boston I tackled seven of these, and when I returned to Princeton, Schneeberger and I managed to polish ... truant 3, [1, 2, 6, 6] with truant 5, [1, 1, 3, 7] with truant 6, [1, 1, 1, 9] with truant 7, [1, 2, 3, 11] with truant 10, [1, 1, 2, 15] with truant 14, and [1, 2, 5, 5] with truant 15 However,...
... divided into three parts The prototype algorithm and its bounding operations can be found in the first part in Chapters to Some problem extensions are discussed in the second part; see Chapters to Finally, ... introduction to location theory before the class of d.c functions and its algebra are presented The chapter ends with an introduction to interval analysis The geometric branch-and-bound prototype algorithm ... demand points on the plane with weights representing the advantage or disadvantage of each demand point The problem is to find a new facility location with respect to the given demand points,...
... ability to reduce metals for which there is no reducing agent that can it For example, preparing metallic Mg nanoparticles.The last technique was named by us RAPET It stands for Reaction under Autogenic ... for Reaction under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures RAPET is being used in our laboratory for the last four years We will show that the RAPET of silanes is yielding the smallest reported ... the highest surface area The RAPET of empty Coca Cola bottles yields micron size carbon spheres with a tensile strength of 8.30±0.69 GPa ...
... contractive factor Let p ≡ d Then, (3.11) and (3.10) are identical We prove that T is a capable map In fact, it suffices to show that (D5) holds Assume that there exists w Î X with w ≠ Tw and ... d(x, A), sup d(x, B) , x∈B x∈A then H is said to be the Hausdorff metric on CB (X) induced by the metric d on X Recall that a selfmap T: X ® X is said to be (a) Kannan’s type [2,5,16] if there exists ... τ0-function if it is a τ-function on X with p(x, x) = for all x Î X Remark 2.1 If p is a τ0-function then, from (τ4),p(x, y) = if and only if x = y Example 2.1 [5] Let X = ℝ with the metric d(x, y) = |x...
... + EXn )α E(a + Xn )−α ≥ (4:5) n→∞ To prove (4.2), it is enough to show that lim sup (a + EXn )α E(a + Xn )−α ≤ (4:6) n→∞ In order to prove (4.6), we need only to show that for all δ Î (0, 1), ... about asymptotic approximation of inverse moment, one can refer to Garcia and Palacios [12], Kaluszka and Okolewski [13], and Hu et al [14], and so on The main purpose of this section is to show ... cited references Second, {Bn, n ≥ 1} is an arbitrary sequence of positive constants in Theorem 4.1, while B2 = n VarZi in the above n i=1 cited references If we take Bn ≡ 1, we can get the asymptotic...
... , R+ ) be nondecreasing with {h, ω}(x) >0 for x Î (0, ∞) 0 ∞ ds = ∞, with x defined as below Finally, assume that and −1 x0 η(φ (s)) α ∈ C1 (R+ , R+ ) is nondecreasing with a(t) ≤ t If u ∈ C(R+ ... 2.2 to the situation with two independent variables Theorem 2:3: Assume that fi(x, y), gi(x, y), hi(x, y) Î C(R+ × R+, R+), i = 1, 2, and j Î C (R+, R+) is a strictly increasing function with ... reduces to Theorem E [11, Theorem 2.2] Applications In this section, we will present two examples in order to illustrate the validity of the above results In the first example, we will try to prove...
... 2.16 where H z is a polynomial with deg H t − From 2.14 and 2.16 , we deduce that ⎛ dM − ⎝ ⎞ k jnj 1⎠s deg h deg H t − 1, 2.17 j in view of deg h ≥ s t 1, together with 2.8 , we have dks ≤ k jnj ... results related to this conjecture have been obtained We refer the reader to Bruck 23 , Gundersen and Yang 24 , Yang 25 , Chen and Shon 26 , Li and Gao ¨ 27 , and Wang 28 It’s interesting to ask what ... 15 Suppose that z0 is a zero of f with multiplicity p ≥ k , then z0 is a zero of f n1 ··· nk with multiplicity n1 · · · nk p, and a zero of f n1 · · · f k nk with multiplicity n1 · · · nk p−ΓM1...
... incubated with PAAcapped CdSe/CdS QDs (Cd concentration of μg/mL, measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometer), at 5% CO at 37°C for h The cells were washed thrice with PBS and analyzed with confocal ... (HRTEM) was applied to determine the morphology and structure The photoluminescence (PL) examination was performed on a detector PMT and ACTON SpectraPro 2500i using a He–Cd laser with a 325-nm wavelength ... typical kind of human cells to demonstrate the promising applications as fluorescent biological labels MTT assays were performed to evaluate the cytotoxicity corresponding to the biocompatibility...
... likely to be dependent on the morphology and structure of the dye-adsorbed TiO2 film Ito et al introduced mesoporous TiO2 particular films as photoanodes to enhance the effective surface area, to ... for 10 The FTO glass was immersed in a 40-mm-deep TiCl4 aqueous solution at 70°C for 30 to make good mechanical contact A TiO2 film with a thickness of 12 to 15 µm was deposited onto the pretreated ... extensively researched over the past decades due to their high energy-conversion efficiency and especially their low production cost as cheaper alternatives to silicon solar cells [1-3] A DSSC is composed...
... Introduction with Applications, An introduction with application, Birkh¨ auser, Boston, Mass, USA, 2001 a M Bohner and A Peterson, Advances in Dynamic Equations on Time Scales, Birkh¨ user, Boston, Mass, ... inequalities on time scales If q 1, r 0, h t 0, then Theorem 3.1 reduces to 7, Theorem 3.1 If q p, h t 0, then Theorem 3.1 reduces to 8, Theorem 3.2 Remark 3.3 The result of Theorem 3.1 holds for ... the Education Department of Shandong Province, China J07yh05 References S Hilger, “Analysis on measure chains—a unified approach to continuous and discrete calculus,” Results in Mathematics,...