In the current model of medium-chain (C8-14) fatty acid biosynthesis in seeds, specialized FatB acyl-acyl-carrier-protein (ACP) thioesterases are responsible for the production of medium chains. We have isolated and characterized FatB cDNAs from the maturing seeds of elm (Ulmus americana) and nutmeg (Myristica fragrans), which accumulate predominantly caprate (10:0)- and myristate (14:0)-contai...

Asphalt is considered a colloidal material and it is important to study the relationship between its colloidal structure, chemical components and performance. The aromatic nucleus content of asphalt at different depth analysed by attenuated total reflection (ATR) was taken as the index of colloid structure. The gray correlation was used to analyse the relationship between colloidal structure an...

The non-linear thin-shell instability (NTSI) may explain some of the turbulent hydrodynamic structures that are observed close to the collision boundary of energetic astrophysical outflows. It develops in non-planar shells that are bounded on either side by a hydrodynamic shock, provided that the amplitude of the seed oscillations is sufficiently large. The hydrodynamic NTSI has amicroscopic co...

The performance of neural networks for which weights and signals are modeled by shot-noise processes is considered. Examples of such networks are optical neural networks and biological systems. We develop a theory that facilitates the computation of the average probability of error in binary-input/binary-output multistage and recurrent networks. We express the probability of error in terms of t...

This paper deals with the problem of computing channel capacity for wireless communications systems with multiantennas. The system is modelled using a transmit volume, a receive volume and a set of reflective scatterers. Based on the authors’ previous work on channel modelling of such a system, we give a multi-input-multi-output model for communications between arbitrary antenna arrays in two v...

We study chaos in non-Lorentzian field theories, specifically Galilean and Carrollian conformal theories two dimensions. In a large central charge limit, we find that the Lyapunov exponent saturates bound on chaos, conjectured originally for relativistic theories. recover same holographically by shock-wave calculation three-dimensional flat space cosmologies, providing further evidence holograp...

We examined associations between dietary fatty acids and progression of coronary artery disease (CAD) in 50 men receiving a lipid-lowering diet or usual care in the St Thomas' Atherosclerosis Regression Study. Nutrient intake was assessed by dietary history and computerized food tables. Progression of CAD over 39 mo, measured by a decrease in minimum absolute width of coronary segments (MinAWS)...