In the conventional maize wet-milling process, a maize kernel is separated into its individual components. Starch (which constitutes 60–70% of the maize kernel) is the prime product. Other components of the maize kernel, which includes germ (oil), protein and the fiber, are recovered as coproducts. Presently, maize fiber is mixed with heavy steepwater and sometimes with germ meal to produce mai...

Chemical penetration enhancers are often used to enhance transdermal drug delivery. However, the fundamental mechanisms that govern the interactions between penetration enhancers and skin are not fully understood. Therefore, the goal of this work was to identify naturally fluorescent penetration enhancers (FPEs) in order to utilize well-established fluorescence techniques to directly study the ...

Kleisli simulation is a categorical notion introduced by Hasuo to verify finite trace inclusion. They allow us to give definitions of forward and backward simulation for various types of systems. A generic categorical theory behind Kleisli simulation has been developed and it guarantees the soundness of those simulations wrt. finite trace semantics. Moreover, those simulations can be aided by f...

A 20-year-old G1P1 woman presented to a local hospital with a 2-week history of headache, blurry vision, photophobia, edema, and easy bruising. She was found to be hypertensive (blood pressure, 180/90) with acute renal failure (Cr = 8.5), thrombocytopenia (platelet [PLT] count, 81 ¥ 10/L), elevated lactate deydrogenase (LDH; (698 IU/L), and severe microcytic anemia (hemoglobin, 5.9 mg/dL; mean ...

The Tsallis entropy and Fisher information entropy (matrix) are very important quantities expressing information measures in nonextensive systems. Stationary and dynamical properties of the information entropies have been investigated in the N -unit coupled Langevin model subjected to additive and multiplicative white noise, which is one of typical nonextensive systems. We have made detailed, a...

In the present study, a step-wise least square estimation algorithm (SLSA), implemented in a Matlab package called as ARfit, has been newly applied to clinical data for estimation of the accurate Auto-Regressive (AR) model orders of both normal and ictal EEG series where the power spectral density (PSD) estimations are provided by the Burg Method. The ARfit module is found to be usefull in comp...

The goal of this study was to characterize a series of antiHer2/neu immunotoxin constructs to identify how different antibodies and linker choices affect the specificity and cytotoxicity of these proteins. We constructed a series of immunotoxins containing either the human single-chain antibody (scFv) C6.5 or the murine scFv e23 fused to the highly toxic recombinant gelonin (rGel) molecule. Bas...