Since the regulation of vascular function involves complex mutual interactions between NO synthase (NOS) and cyclooxygenase (COX) products, we examined the contribution of NO and prostanoids derived from the COX pathway in modulating aortic baroreceptor resetting during an acute (30 min) increase in arterial pressure in anesthetized rats. Increase in pressure was induced either by administratio...

Multiple linear regression equations were developed for predicting the percentage of fat content of beef and pork. The predictor variables were bioelectrical resistance, temperature, and weight of product. Equations were developed for trim and product ground through a .95- or a .32-cm plate. The trim, .95-cm, and .32-cm grinds had 64, 108, and 96 observations, respectively, for beef product and...

Trim loss minimization is the most common problem that arises during the cutting process, when products with variable width or length are to be produced in bulk to satisfy customer demands from limited available/ stocked materials. The aim is to minimize inevitable waste material. Under various environmental and physical constraints, the trim loss problem is highly constrained, non convex, nonl...

This paper addresses the class of nonlinear mixed integer stochastic programming problems. In particular, we consider two-stage problems with nonlinearities both in the objective function and constraints, pure integer first stage and mixed integer second stage variables. We exploit the specific problem structure to develop a global optimization algorithm. The basic idea is to decompose the orig...

Personalized recommendation systems are gaining significant traction due to their industrial importance. An important building block of consists what is known as the embedding layers, which exhibit a highly memory-intensive characteristics. Fundamental primitives layers vector gathers followed by reductions, low arithmetic intensity and becomes bottlenecked memory throughput. To address this is...

The purpose of this document is to discuss a 2-dimensional trim model for an aircraft along with the necessary mathematical methods to solve the problem, the computer implementation of the method and the results. The aircraft is climbing at a constant translational velocity, i.e. the aircraft is not accelerating. The 2-dimensional simplification; restricting the motion of the aircraft to longit...

Significant advances have been made in the last two decades for the effective solution of mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) problems, mainly by exploiting the special structure of the problem that results under certain convexity assumptions. This paper discusses the computational experience with a novel decomposition algorithm which is based on the idea of closely approximating the f...

The tripartite motif (TRIM) family of proteins is an evolutionarily ancient group of proteins with homologues identified in both invertebrate and vertebrate species. Human TRIM22 is one such protein that has a dynamic evolutionary history that includes gene expansion, gene loss, and strong signatures of positive selection. To date, TRIM22 has been shown to restrict the replication of a number o...

Problems in operations research are often NP complete and optimal solution for larger problems cannot be obtained, therefore heuristic methods have to be used. The boundary between the size of the problem that can be solved optimally and those where heuristic methods should be used is not always clear. To solve this problem we propose a method based on decision trees. The method can be also use...