Some difficulties are often encountered when studying the conformation of saccharides by means of p.m.r. spectroscopy: the spectra are rather complex so that coupling constants and chemical shifts of the particular protons cannot be distinguished. The introduction of certain complexes of lanthanides possessing paramagnetic pro­ perties, so-called "shift reagents", into this field was of great i...

The effects of endurance training (running 40 m/min grade for 60 min, 5 days/wk for 8 wk) on skeletal muscle lactate removal was studied in rats by utilizing the isolated hindlimb perfusion technique. Hindlimbs were perfused (single-pass) with Krebs-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer, fresh bovine erythrocytes (hematocrit approximately 30%), 10 mM lactate, and [U-14C]lactate (30,000 dpm/ml). Arterial...

INTRODUCTION The present study aimed to evaluate a rapid and inexpensive colorimetric nitrate reductase assay (NRA) performed directly on sputum specimens for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). METHODOLOGY A total of 55 sputum samples were decontaminated and processed by modified Petroff's method.  A part of the resulting suspension was used to perform direct NR...

Direct insertion of the anterior papillary muscle (DPM) into the mitral valve is uncommon. During the routine dissection of an adult female, a DPM into the mitral valve with abnormal chordae tendinae was observed. This abnormal papillary muscle was measured as 28.0 mm in length from myocardial to insertion, 14.8 mm in width, and 7.0 mm in depth. The embryology, symptoms, associated cardiac dise...

Dynamic Power Management (DPM) is one of the main system level low power technologies for Systems On Chip (SOCs). This paper presents a series of Markov models for various DPM policies and provides accurate analysis about their power and latency performances with full consideration of the shutdown and wakeup processes. The new models make it possible to incorporate latency analysis in terms of ...

This article provides next step towards solving speed bottleneck of any system that intensively uses convolutions operations (e.g. CNN). Method described in the article is applied on deformable part models (DPM) algorithm. Method described here is based on multidimensional tensors and provides efficient tradeoff between DPM performance and accuracy. Experiments on various databases, including P...

Facial feature detection is considered an important computer vision task that is used for many real world applications. Current advancements in computer vision have come up with many proposed facial feature detection approaches, such as Deformable Parts Model (DPM), that provide good accuracy in the detection of key facial features, but mainly in frontal poses. When presented with side profile ...

In recent years, embedded memories are the fastest growing segment of system on chip. They therefore have a major impact on the overall Defect per Million (DPM). Further, the shrinking technologies and processes introduce new defects that cause previously unknown faults; such faults have to be understood and modeled in order to design appropriate test techniques that can reduce the DPM level. T...

Synthesis, structural and characterization data are provided for Pt(II) and Ir(III) complexes cyclometalated with 2-(corannulene)pyridine (corpy), (corpy)Pt(dpm) and (corpy)Ir(ppz)2 (dpm = dipivaloylmethanato, ppz = 1-phenylpyrazolyl). A third compound, (phenpy)Ir(ppz)2 (phenpy = 2-(5-phenanthryl)pyridyl), was also prepared to mimic the steric bulk of (corpy)Ir(ppz)2. X-ray analysis reveals bow...

Dynamic power management (DPM) is a design methodology for dynamically reconfiguring systems to provide the requested services and performance levels with a minimum number of active components or a minimum load on such components. DPM encompasses a set of techniques that achieves energy-efficient computation by selectively turning off (or reducing the performance of) system components when they...