In a wide range of commercial and industrial applications data from different sources web, databases or documents are integrated into databases for the purpose of querying and analysis. It is then determined for each of the information contained in the source schema, what should be the corresponding column in the target relational database, that is to say, to establish a correspondence (Mapping...

A simple method has been developed for the preconcentration of mercury based on the adsorption of its Schiff’s base diphenylthiocarbazone (DPC)complex on a silica gel-immobilized Schiff’s base diphenylthiocarbazone (DPC)column. The influence of acidity, eluting agents, stability of the column, sample volume and interfering ions has been investigated in detail. The adsorbed complex could be elut...

Many engineers are hesitant to specify rocking foundations for ordinary bridges because of the unsubstantiated notion that rocking bridges are more susceptible to instability than conventional fixed-base bridges. A parametric study using a finite element model including large deformation effects compares the performance and stability of stiff, flexible, tall, and short hinging-column and rockin...

The binding of proteins to specific sequences of DNA is an important feature of virtually all DNA transactions. Proteins recognize specific DNA sequences using both direct readout (sensing types and positions of DNA functional groups) and indirect readout (sensing DNA conformation and deformability). Previously we showed that the P22 c2 repressor N-terminal domain (P22R NTD) forces the central ...

We describe Curves+, a new nucleic acid conformational analysis program which is applicable to a wide range of nucleic acid structures, including those with up to four strands and with either canonical or modified bases and backbones. The program is algorithmically simpler and computationally much faster than the earlier Curves approach, although it still provides both helical and backbone para...

We study the lattice lat(M) of cocycles of a binary matroid M. By an isomorphism we show that such lattices are equivalent to lattices generated by the columns of proper submatrices of Sylvester matrices of full row length. As an application we show that the cocycle lattice of a recursively deened class of matroids, including all binary matroids of rank four, always has a basis consisting of co...