A peptide with high intrinsic activity for specifically stimulating the secretion of immunoreactive growth hormone (GH; somatotropin) has been characterized and reproduced by total synthesis. This peptide, human pancreatic growth hormone-releasing factor, 44-amino-acid form (hpGRF1-44-NH2), was isolated from a tumor localized in the pancreas of a patient with acromegaly. We report here the effe...

Third-order weak lensing statistics are a promising tool for cosmological analyses since they extract information in the non-Gaussianity of cosmic large-scale structure. However, such require precise and accurate models covariance. In this second paper series on third-order statistics, we derive validate an analytic model covariance aperture $\langle M_\mathrm{ap}^3\rangle$. We from real-space ...

By incorporating force transducers into treadmills, force platform-instrumented treadmills (commonly called force treadmills) can collect large amounts of gait data and enable the ground reaction force (GRF) to be calculated. However, the high cost of force treadmills has limited their adoption. This paper proposes a low-cost force treadmill system with force sensors installed underneath a stan...

An augmented book is an application that augments virtual 3D objects to a real book via AR technology. For augmented books, some markerless methods have been proposed so far. However, they can only recognize one page at a time. This leads to restrictions on the utilization of augmented books. In this paper, we present a novel markerless tracking method capable of recognizing and tracking multip...

Given a finite n-element set X , a family of subsets F ⊂ 2 is said to separate X if any two elements of X are separated by at least one member of F . It is shown that if |F| > 2, then one can select ⌈logn⌉ + 1 members of F that separate X . If |F| ≥ α2 for some 0 < α < 1/2, then logn+O(log 1 α log log 1 α ) members of F are always sufficient to separate all pairs of elements of X that are separ...

W. L. Ayres and H. M. Gehman have proved independently that if a locally connected continuum S contains a non-cut point p, there exists an arbitrarily small region R containing p and such that S — R is connected. Our paper is concerned with certain generalizations of this theorem. We shall consider a space 5 which is a locally connected continuum and contains a closed set P such that S — P is c...

A highly specific and sensitive radioimmunoassay was developed for measuring circulating growth hormone releasing factor (GRF) in human plasma. Before measuring immunoreactive GRF plasma samples were extracted on to Vycor glass. Immunoreactive GRF concentrations in plasma samples from 37 fasting normal subjects ranged from less than 10 to 60 ng/l (mean 21 ng/l). Fasting concentrations in 76 out...

Given disjoint sets PI, P2 ..... Pd in R a with n points in total, a ham-sandwich cut is a hyperplane that simultaneously bisects the Pi. We present algorithms for finding ham-sandwich cuts in every dimension d > 1. When d = 2, the algorithm is optimal, having complexity O(n). For dimension d > 2, the bound on the running time is proportional to the worst-case time needed for constructing a lev...