Gram-positive bacteria contain a family of surface proteins that are covalently anchored to the cell wall of the organism. These cell-wall anchored (CWA) proteins appear to play key roles in the interactions between pathogenic organisms and the host. A subfamily of the CWA has a common structural organization with multiple domains adopting characteristic IgG-like folds. The identified microbial...

The adoption of digital signal processing (DSP) microchips for detection and analysis of electrocardiographic signals offers a means for increased computational speed and the opportunity for design of customized architecture to address real-time requirements. A system using the Motorola 56001 DSP chip has been designed to realize cycle-by-cycle detection (triggering) and waveform analysis using...

One of the most used assumptions in logic programming and deductive databases is the so-called Closed World Assumption (CWA), according to which the atoms that cannot be inferred from the programs are considered to be false (i.e. a pessimistic assumption). One of the most successful semantics of conventional logic programs based on the CWA is the well-founded semantics. However, the CWA is not ...

suspensions of A and attaching cones on suspensions of A (see [5, corollary 3.7]). If A = S, then a relative S–CW–complex is essentially an ordinary relative CW– complex. Any pointed map f : X → Y can be factored as a composition (X → Y ′ p → Y ), where (Y ′, X) is a relative A–CW–complex and p induces a weak equivalence of mapping spaces p? : map?(A, Y ′)→ map?(A, Y ). Let X be a pointed space...

フィブリノゲン（fibrinogen: Fbg）は，臨床検査において活性値または抗原量として測定されている．Fbg異常の判断に両者の測定が有用であるが，多くの検査室ではClauss法に基づいた活性値のみを測定しているため，先天性Fbg異常症（congenital fibrinogen disorder: CFD）の見逃しが懸念される．近年，プロトロンビン時間（prothrombin time: PT）や活性化部分トロンボプラスチン時間（activated partial thromboplastin APTT）の凝固波形解析（clot waveform analysis: CWA）が精力的に研究され，様々な凝固異常や抗凝固薬の研究に応用されるようになった．筆者らはこのCWAをClauss法に応用し，CFDにおけるCWAパラメーターの特性を明らかにした．さらに，CWAパラメーターから抗...

data envelopment analysis (dea) was developed to help compare the relative performance of decision-making units. it is a non-parametric method for performing frontier analysis. it uses linear programming to estimate the efficiency of multiple decision-making units and it is commonly used in production, management and economics [3]. dea generates an efficiency score between 0 and 1 for each unit...

Morphological waveform identification methods have been demonstrated to be effective for distinction of normal and abnormal conduction in intraventricular electrograms in small pilot tests. Yet these methods will find acceptance in future implantable devices only when computational demands and memory requirements are further reduced. A restricted passband allows reduced sampling rate and dimini...

The Clean Water Act (CWA) has regulated discharges of contaminants since 1972. However, evaluations of the CWA's effectiveness at improving regional water quality are lacking, primarily because integration of monitoring data from multiple dischargers to assess cumulative effects is not required. A rare opportunity exists to assess CWA effectiveness by integrating mass emissions data from all ma...

because of the piecewise linear nature of the data envelopment analysis (dea) frontier, the optimal multipliers of the dea models may not be unique. choosing weights from alternative optimal solutions of dual multiplier models is one of the most frequently studied subjects in the context of dea. in this paper, the authors have been inspired by the idea of cooper et al. (2011) to propose a linea...