In China, pre-Quaternary solid potash deposit has only been discovered in the Simao Basin, and Lower Cretaceous Mengyejing (MYJ) Formation (Fm.) is productive layer of deposit. this study, we investigated clay conglomerates which are distributed upper lower members potash-bearing salt rock layer. We analyzed relative contents major elements (Al2O3, Fe2O3T, MgO, CaO, Na2O, K2O) trace (B, Ba, Co,...

BACKGROUND Poly(amidoamine)s (PAAs) are synthetic polymers endowed with many biologically interesting properties, being highly biocompatible, non toxic and biodegradable. Hydrogels based on PAAs can be easily modified during the synthesis by the introduction of functional co-monomers. Aim of this work is the development and testing of novel amphoteric nanosized poly(amidoamine) hydrogel film in...

In this paper, an antifouling hydrogel coating of slippery hydrogel-released hydrous surface (SHRHS) with the self-cleaning ability of oil-resistance and self-regeneration characters was designed. A physical blending method of loading Sodium polyacrylate (PAAS) powder into the organic silicon resin was employed to prepare the SHRHS coating. The oil-resistance of the intact and scratch SHRHS coa...

Following IT innovations, manual operations have been automated, improving the overall quality of life. This has been possible because an organic topology has been formed among many diverse smart devices grafted onto real life. To provide services to these smart devices, enterprises or users use the cloud. Cloud services are divided into infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service...

Current cloud service offerings, i.e., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-asa-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings are often provided as monolithic, one-size-fits-all solutions and give little or no room for customization. This limits the ability of Service-based Application (SBA) developers to configure and syndicate offerings from multiple SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS p...

Developing and deploying Service-based Applications (SBAs) using different Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings from multiple providers in the cloud is still not possible, since current cloud service offerings are often provided as monolithic, one-size-fits-all solutions and give little or no room for customization. This lim...

Vasculogenic defects of great vessels (GVs) are a major cause of congenital cardiovascular diseases. However, genetic regulators of endothelial precursors in GV vasculogenesis remain largely unknown. Here we show that Stat4, a transcription factor known for its regulatory role of pro-inflammatory signalling, promotes GV vasculogenesis in zebrafish. We find stat4 transcripts highly enriched in n...

This chapter introduces a framework and a methodology to manage a SaaS application on top of a PaaS infrastructure. This framework utilizes PaaS policy sets to implement the SaaS provider’s elasticity policy for its application server tier. Adaptation is based on strategytrees, which allow for systematic capture, representation and reasoning about adaptation variability, based on hierarchically...

Biodegradable poly(ester amine) (PEA)-based and poly(amido amine) (PAA)-based nanoparticles were developed for efficient in vitro siRNA delivery to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). They were screened, characterized, and compared with traditionally studied DNA-containing particles. Several of the polymeric nanoparticles tested were found to be effective for delivering functional ...

We define deterministic arithmetic automata (DAAs) and connect them to a framework called probabilistic arithmetic automata (PAAs) [9]. We use DAAs and PAAs to compute the entire exact probability distribution (in contrast to, e.g., asymptotic expectation and variance) of the number X of text characters accessed by the Horspool or Sunday pattern matching algorithms when matching a fixed pattern...