Abstract An innovative poly(urethane-urea) elastomer, which exhibited excellent stretchability, thermal stability and autonomous self-healing abilities, was synthesized from the commercially available poly(propylene glycol) (PPG), isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), 2,4 / 2,6-toluene (80: 20, w w) (TDI-80) bis (2-aminophenyl) disulfide (DSDA). This aromatic containing (ss-PUs) achieved both rapid r...

Speech synthesis based on one-model of articulatory movement HMMs, that are commonly applied to both speech recognition (SR) and speech synthesis (SS), is described. In an SS module, speaker-invariant HMMs are applied to generate an articulatory feature (AF) sequence, and then, after converting AFs into vocal tract parameters by using a multilayer neural network (MLN), a speech signal is synthe...

Within target T lymphocytes, human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-1) encounters the retroviral restriction factor APOBEC3G (apolipoprotein B mRNA-editing enzyme, catalytic polypeptide-like 3G; A3G), which is counteracted by the HIV-1 accessory protein Vif. Vif is encoded by intron-containing viral RNAs that are generated by splicing at 3' splice site (3'ss) A1 but lack splicing at 5'ss D2, ...

A theorem of Bade proves that for a complete Boolean sublattice S£ of 3>(3if) the following holds: SS {PeS£"; P is orthogonal projection operator} We prove that this theorem does not hold for the physically interesting class of non-Boolean propositional systems embedded in a 3>(3if); we derive however a necessary and sufficient condition under which the theorem does hold. This condition is auto...

We present a pedagogical discussion of the the Hirsch-Fye and Continuous time Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithms which may be used to study a correlated cluster embedded in an uncorrelated host, or used to solve the cluster problem in dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) or its cluster extensions. The basic algorithms are discussed, together with methods for efficient measurments and the modifi...

Background: Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by periductal lymphocytic infiltration of the salivary and lacrimal glands, which results in reduced secretory functions oral ocular dryness (1). In addition, patients often have extraglandular manifestations, such as interstitial pneumonia nephritis, appearance autoantibodies anti-Ro/SS-A La/SS-B antibodies. Sal...

We analyze GIT stability of nets of quadrics in P4 up to projective equivalence. Since a general net of quadrics defines a canonically embedded smooth curve of genus 5, the resulting quotient M G := G(3, 15)ss//SL(5) gives a birational model of M5. We study the geometry of the associated contraction f : M5 99K M G , and prove that f is the final step in the log minimal model program for M5.

We study the Newman--Unti (NU) group from viewpoint of infinite-dimensional geometry. The NU is a topological in natural coarse topology, but it does not become manifold and hence Lie this topology. To obtain structure we consider finer Whitney-type This turns unit component into an group. then theoretic properties Surprisingly, operations full discontinuous, whence support structure. contains ...

a novel zinc oxide - agar nanocomposite was successfully synthesized using zinc chloride as a precursor. the nanocomposite was prepared using a domestic microwave oven. the prepared nanocomposites have been characterized by fourier transform infrared (ftir) spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction (xrd) analysis, scanning electron microscopy (sem) and uv- visible spectroscopy. the crystalline properties...