Capillary electrophoresis (CE) coupled to electrospray mass spectrometry via sheathless interfacing has been applied to the analysis of mammalian metallothionein (MT) extracts. In a rabbit-liver extract, four (MT-2C, MT-2A, MT-2D and MT-2E) out of six known MT sub-isoforms were unambiguously identified under three CE-resolved peaks. A fourth peak was found to contain MT-1A and/or MT-2B, whose m...

PURPOSE Results in several studies have suggested that the visual evoked potential (VEP) amplitude can vary with stimulus duration. The purpose of this study was to determine whether acuity estimates obtained by extrapolation of the sweep VEP are altered by this adaptation effect. METHODS Sweep VEP data were obtained from 16 healthy observers under binocular viewing conditions. Data were acqu...

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 200 West Packer Avenue, Mohler Lab, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California–Berkeley, 4121 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, 200 West Packer Avenue, Mohler Lab, Bethlehem, PA 18015...

case: a 26-year-old man referred to emergency service with coma, bradypnea (respiratory rate = 4 breaths per minute) and pinpoint pupil. on chest auscultation, diffuse coarse crackle and on abdominal auscultation, decrease of abdominal sounds were found. at first evaluation, pulse oximetry showed 19% saturation of oxygen. after oxygen therapy with facial mask and infusion of 8.4 mg naloxone in ...

This study was designed to calibrate and evaluate the subsurface drain flow component of the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM; Version 2.5) for four tillage-systems: chisel plow (CP), moldboard plow (MB), no-tillage (NT), and ridge-tillage (RT). Measured subsurface drain flow data for 1990 was used for model calibration. Main parameters calibrated were lateral saturated hydraulic conductivi...

T paper analyzes the optimal procurement, processing, and production decisions of a meat-processing company (hereafter, a “packer”) in a beef supply chain. The packer processes fed cattle to produce two beef products, program (premium) boxed beef and commodity boxed beef, in fixed proportions, but with downward substitution of the premium product for the commodity product. The packer can source...

In this paper, rate 1/p binary systematic quasi-cyclic (QC) codes are constructed based on Matroid Theory (MT). The relationship between the generator matrix and minimum distance d is derived through MT, which is benefit to find numbers of QC codes with large minimum distance by our Matroid search algorithm. More than seventy of QC codes that extend previously published results are presented. A...

Brassica carinata, a nonfood oilseed crop, is used to produce renewable fuels because of its high oil content and favorable fatty acid profile. Production in the southeastern United States relatively new, information on agronomic management practices optimize growth yield limited. Since optimal seeding rate may depend land preparation method for this small-seeded study was conducted evaluate ef...