The lethal effects occurring in neonatal (< 24-h old) BALB/c mice after challenge with E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were significantly counteracted by pretreatment with antibacterial peptide PR-39. Neonatal mice protection was probably related to the depressive effect of PR-39 on production of TNF-alpha known to be the major mediator of the lethal effects of neonatal endotoxic shock. Indeed...

PROOF. It suffices, by standard facts about probability measure, to prove the claim for cylinders C(w′) ⊆ ′, where w′ = w0, . . . wk. We use induction on k. The base case (k = 0) follows from Lemma 7. Namely, C( ) = ′, and ρ−1( ′) = \ ρ−1( ). Thus Pr (ρ−1( ′)) = 1 − Pr (ρ−1( )) = 1. For the induction step, suppose that the claim holds for the prefix w′ = w0w1 . . . wk. Let D[w′] = ρ−1(C(w′)). D...

in this paper an optimal controller is proposed for a self-balancing electrical vehicle called segway pt. this vehicle has one platform and two wheels on the sides and the rider stands on the platform. a handlebar, as a navigator, is attached to the body of segway, with which the rider controls the vehicle. since segway uses electrical energy produced by batteries, resource consumption manageme...

this paper deals with the design and evaluation of a robust controller for static var compensator (svc) in remote industrial power systems to enhance the voltage profile for three-phase single cage induction motor (scim) loads. the controller design is based on h∞ theory to deal with uncertainties arising in industrial network modelling. the performance of the h∞ controller has been evaluated e...

designing of a pid controller is a very common method for industrial process control and due to its very simple and efficient function; it is used in a wide variety of industrial applications. pid controller to reduce the steady state error and dynamic response of the system is used. pid controller design is an inevitable problem in setting the coefficients need to try a lot of trial and error,...

Apidaecins, short proline-arginine-rich peptides from insects, are highly bactericidal through a mechanism that includes stereoselective elements but is completely devoid of any pore-forming activity. The spectrum of antibacterial activity, always limited to Gram-negatives, is further dependent on a small number of variable residues and can be manipulated. We show here that mutations in the evo...

A basic problem that arises often in the design and analysis of randomized algorithms is to get a good estimate (upper bound, lower bound, or both) of Pr( ∨ i∈[m]Ei), for some given events Ei. Equivalently, a good lower bound, upper bound or both, is required for Pr( ∧ i∈[m]Ei). As we have seen, one approach would be to use the union bound (“counting sieve”), which is unfortunately quite weak i...

Let R be a commutative ring with identity. An ideal I in R is called a multiplication ideal if every ideal contained in I is a multiple of I. Ohm's properties for nitely generated ideals in Pr ufer domains are investigated by Gilmer. These properties are generalized by Naoum and studied for nitely generated multiplication ideals. The purpose of this work is to generalize the results of Gilmer a...

renewable energy sources like wind, sun, and hydro are considered as a reliable alternative to the traditional energy sources such as oil, natural gas, or coal. this paper describes modeling and simulations to determine a method for the power performance evaluation of autonomous wind turbine system. a speed control regulator is utilized to control the dc bus voltage. the inverter gate’s signals...

There are many indices for measuring property rights (PR) security. They may be classified into two groups: subjective proxies and objective proxies. Most of the proxies are subjective. One contribution of this paper is introducing a new approach for measuring government expenditures devoted to PR protection. Calculating physical capital within the introduced new approach is another contributio...