Normal adult male hamsters have low levels (10-20 micrograms) of female protein (FP) in serum which increase approximately fivefold during an acute phase response. In contrast, normal females have 50- to 100-fold higher serum levels and the acute phase reaction consists of a transient decrease in FP (approximately 50%), followed by a return to normal levels even under adverse conditions such as...

OBJECTIVE Although there has been little research on the adaptive behavior of people with congenital compared to acquired disability, there is reason to predict that people with congenital conditions may be better adapted because they have lived with their conditions for their entire lives (Smart, 2008). We examined whether people with congenital facial paralysis (FP), compared to people with a...

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) coprocessor, having significant impact on the performance of communication systems, hasbeen a hot topic of research for many years. The FFT function consists of consecutive multiply add operations over complex numbers, dubbed as butterfly units. Applying floating-point (FP) arithmetic to FFT architectures, specifically butterfly units, has become more popular recent...

Fluorescent proteins (FP) are used to study various biological processes. Recently, a series of near-infrared (NIR) FPs based on bacterial phytochromes was developed. Finding ways to improve NIR FPs is becoming progressively important. By applying rational design and molecular evolution we have engineered R. palustris bacterial phytochrome into a single-domain NIR FP of 19.6 kDa, termed GAF-FP,...

Let p be a prime number, Fp be a finite field, and let k ∈ Fp. In this paper, we consider the number of rational points on conics Cp,k : x − ky = 1 over Fp. We proved that the order of Cp,k over Fp is p− 1 if k is a quadratic residue mod p and is p+1 if k is not a quadratic residue mod p. Later we derive some results concerning the sums ∑ C [x] p,k(Fp) and ∑ C [y] p,k(Fp), the sum of x− and y−c...

1: Properties of the shuffle product in positive characteristic suggest to consider a p−homogeneous form σ : Fp〈〈X1, . . . ,Xk〉〉 −→ Fp〈〈X1, . . . ,Xk〉〉 on the vector space Fp〈〈X1, . . . ,Xk〉〉 of formal power series in k free noncommuting variables. The form σ preserves rational elements in Fp〈〈X1, . . . ,Xk〉〉, algebraic series of Fp[[X]] and induces a bijection on the affine subspace 1+m of for...

PURPOSE To determine the distribution of the prostaglandin F2 alpha (FP) receptor within the monkey eye. METHODS The expression and localization of the FP receptor was studied by in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry. Cryosections of the eye were hybridized with a 35S-labeled FP receptor riboprobe, and paraffin sections were immunostained with polyclonal antibodies against an FP rece...

When foreperiods (FPs) of different duration vary on a trial-by-trial basis equiprobably but randomly, the RT is faster as the FP increases (variable FP effect), and becomes slower as the FP on the preceding trial gets longer (sequential effects). It is unclear whether the two effects are due to a common mechanism or to two different ones. Patients with lesions on the right lateral prefrontal c...

Recent increases in family planning (FP) use have been reported among women of reproductive age in union (WRAU) in Senegal. However, trends have not been monitored among harder-to-reach groups (including adolescents, unmarried and rural poor women), key to understanding whether FP progress is equitable. We combined data from six Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Senegal between 1992/9...