Multidimensional liquid chromatography in combination with tandem mass spectrometry has been used to analyze a variety of biological structures including protein complexes. Incorporating this approach with autosampling devices presents a number of problems including decreased sensitivity due to exposure to extra surfaces, carryover from run to run, and increased dead volume. We developed a devi...

Intra-articulator anticipatory and carryover coarticulation were assessed in both temporal and spatial terms. Three subjects produced VCV sequences with velar stop consonants and back vowels. Pulsed ultrasound was used to examine the vertical displacement, duration, and maximum velocity of the tongue dorsum raising (VC transition) and lowering (CV transition) gestures. Anticipatory coarticulati...

Hitachi704 Unmodified No 155 y 1.OOlx + 0.23 0.988 0.0118 0.225 0.29 Unmodified Yes 52 y = 1.059x + 9.71 0.987 0.0234 0.453 10.71 b Modified Yes 155 y = 1.047x 0.50 0.996 0.0074 0.142 0.21 Hitachi 717 Unmodified No 155 y = 1.025x + 0.14 0.977 0.0213 0.425 0.57 Unmodified Yes 31 y = 1.040x + 3.20 0.960 0.0522 1.283 406b Modified Yes 155 y = 1.065x 0.19 0.983 0.01 89 0.380 Three sets of samples w...

We performed an immunoassay evaluation for various analytes on a fully automated random-access analyzer, the Technicon Immuno 1 system from Bayer Corp. This system involves latex agglutination, magnetic separation sandwich, and magnetic separation competitive immunoassay configurations. The evaluated analytes were thyrotropin (TSH), triiodothyronine, thyroxine, free thyroxine, follitropin, lutr...

Motivated by the widespread adoption of dynamic pricing in industry and the empirical evidence of costly price adjustments, in this paper we consider a periodic-review inventory model with price adjustment costs that consist of both fixed and variable components. In each period, demand is stochastic and price-dependent. The firm needs to coordinate the pricing and inventory replenishment decisi...

Hotels and their online agencies have an interplay effect on the online-to-offline (O2O) platform. Since new platform cannot do business with one service provider alone, understanding changes in attributes that determine satisfaction during subsequent consumption events is crucial. Despite such interrelationships between agency services offline hotel services, there remains a dearth of empirica...