the rule is RPI + K, where K represents both expected productivity gains and a permitted annual increase in the real price of water to allow for quality improvements (think of it as RPI – X + Q, where Q stands for the quality improvement). Since 1989, price caps have also been used in the United States to adjust the prices charged by the long-distance telephone company AT&T. In New Zealand, a p...

A fundamental task within the framework of a project searching for new radiopharmaceuticals for systemic therapy was the evaluation of the capabilities of the Portuguese Research Reactor (RPI) for the production of several important radionuclides. The feasibility of producing 64Cu, 77As, 153Sm, 165Dy, 166Ho, 170Tm, 177Lu, 186Re, 199Au and 111Ag in useful quantities was evaluated for the present...

We describe the construction and screening of a large insert genomic library from the diploid potato clone HB171(13) that has been shown to express durable quantitative field resistance to Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of potato late blight disease. Integrated genetic mapping of the field resistance quantitative trait locus with markers developed from populations segregating for Rpi-...

People unconsciously and unintentionally make inferences about others' personality traits based on their behaviours. In this study, a classic memory phenomenon--proactive interference (PI)--is for the first time used to detect spontaneous trait inferences. PI should occur when lists of behaviour descriptions, all implying the same trait, are to be remembered. Switching to a new trait should pro...

By chemical and enzymatic methods, two stable complexes between Escherichia coli RNA polymerase and a linear DNA fragment carrying the lac UV5 promoter have been identified. In these binary complexes, DNA can adopt two alternate conformations as a function of temperature. Contacts between RNA polymerase and the DNA phosphate backbone are indistinguishable in these two forms, as revealed by prob...

The greatest threat to potato production world-wide is late blight, caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. A screen of 126 wild diploid Solanum accessions from the Commonwealth Potato Collection (CPC) with P. infestans isolates belonging to the genotype 13-A2 identified resistances in the species S. bulbocastanum, S. capsicibaccatum, S. microdontum, S. mochiquense, S. okadae, S...

It was a most joyous occasion to celebrate Professor Van Mow’s 70th Birthday on January 10, 2009 at the International Symposium on the Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering held at the Doral Arrowwood Conference Center, Rye Brook, NY. Van has had a most outstanding career in bioengineering as a scholar and leader that spanned over four decades. Indeed, he has fully utilized his superb intellectua...

In this paper we derive two robustly stable model predictive control (MPC) schemes for the class of piecewise linear (PWL) and hybrid systems. We assume that the plant model is subject to unknown but bounded disturbances and the states of the system can be measured or estimated. We derive a piecewise feedback controller based on linear matrix inequalities (LMI) that stabilizes the nominal syste...

In this work, we study two approaches for the problem of RNA-Protein Interaction (RPI). In the first approach, we use a feature-based technique by combining extracted features from both sequences and secondary structures. The feature-based approach enhanced the prediction accuracy as it included much more available information about the RNA-protein pairs. In the second approach, we apply search...

In this paper we discuss the most recent evaluation of the RPI language identi cation system by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). This system is based on an acousto-phonetic approach where the phonemes present in a language are identi ed by a hidden semi-Markov model (HSMM). The HSMM was also developed at RPI. Knowledge of these phonemes provides us with the necessary...