AMULET1, developed in the OMI-MAP project, showed that complex asynchronous design is feasible. AMULET2e, developed in the OMI-DE project, is the next step in establishing self-timed processing as a commercially viable technology. It incorporates a new core, AMULET2, which is significantly faster than AMULET1, together with on-chip RAM which can be configured as a fixed block of RAM or as a cac...

An assessment of OMI retrievals of aerosol properties is presented. We compare OMI retrieved values of extinction and absorption optical depth, and aerosol single scattering albedo to AERONET ground-based measurements. An evaluation of the accuracy of the retrievals for a limited number of observations under cloud-free conditions shows a positive offset of about 0.03 in retrieved optical depth....

BACKGROUND The aim of this retrospective investigation was to evaluate the incidence of loss to pulp sensibility testing (PST) of maxillary front teeth after paramedian (3 to 5 mm away from the suture) orthodontic mini-implant (OMI) insertion in the anterior palate. METHODS A total of 284 patients (102 males, 182 females; mean age was 14.4 years (±8.8) years at time of OMI-Insertion) with a t...

BACKGROUND Several inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) are cleaved during apoptosis. Studies of the melanoma-associated IAP (ML-IAP) Livin, using recombinant molecules, have implicated both caspases 3/7 and the serine protease Omi/HtrA2 in its proteolytic cleavage. OBJECTIVE To characterize the apoptotic cleavage of Livin in melanocytic cells, and evaluate the role of known proteases. ME...

An increasing human population and the growing demand for food of animal origin are leading to an intensification of sheep production and widespread overgrazing of the grassland steppe in Inner Mongolia. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of herbage allowance (HA) on OM intake (OMI) and BW gain (BWG) of grazing sheep. In July to September 2005 to 2010, a grazing experiment was cond...

1. Organic cation transporters (OCTs) are involved in the elimination of monoamines and cationic xenobiotics. To examine whether some cell lines express several different OCTs, we investigated seven human cell lines for the mRNA expression pattern of the human (h) transporters hOCT1, hOCT2 and hOCT3. hOCT1 mRNA was found in all cell lines, six additionally expressed hOCT3 and only two cell line...

[1] The cloud pressures determined by three different algorithms, operating on reflectances measured by two spaceborne instruments in the ‘‘A’’ train, are compared with each other. The retrieval algorithms are based on absorption in the oxygen A-band near 765 nm, absorption by a collision induced absorption in oxygen near 477 nm, and the filling in of Fraunhofer lines by rotational Raman scatte...