In a combinatorial auction environment with m goods, a bid that ascribes a real value to any bundle of goods G, b : 2G → R, can require an exponential amount of space to represent, as there are 2m possible bundles. In these notes, we describe several bidding languages that can represent some bids more compactly. While they are called bidding languages, and can be thought of as languages bidders...

Based on the hybrid pharmacophore design concept, a novel series of dual diaryl urea and N-acylhydrazone derivatives were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro cytotoxicity by the standard MTT assay. The pharmacological results indicated that most compounds exhibited moderate to excellent activity. Moreover, compound 2g showed the most potent cytotoxicity against HL-60, A549 and MDA-MB-2...

The Kauffman bracket skein module $S(M)$ of a 3-manifold $M$ is $\mathbb{Q}(A)$-vector space spanned by links in modulo the so-called relations. In this article, for any closed oriented surface $\Sigma$ we provide an explicit spanning family modules $S(\Sigma\times S^1)$. Combined with earlier work Gilmer and Masbaum, answer their question about dimension S^1)$ being $2^{2g+1} + 2g -1$.

The second-generation (2G) fermentation environment for lignocellulose conversion presents unique challenges to the fermentative organism that do not necessarily exist in other industrial fermentations. While extreme osmotic, heat, and nutrient starvation stresses are observed sugar- starch-based environments, additional pre-treatment-derived inhibitor stress, potentially exacerbated by such as...

Abstract Twisted 2D bilayer materials are created by artificial stacking of two monolayer crystal networks with a desired twisting angle θ . The material forms moiré superlattice due to the periodicity both top and bottom layer structure. optical properties modified lattice reconstruction phonon renormalization, which makes spectroscopy an ideal characterization tool study novel physics phenome...

We report spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements of the anisotropy of the interband transitions parallel and perpendicular to the planes of (LaTiO3)n(LaAlO3)5 multilayers with n=1-3. These provide direct information about the electronic structure of the two-dimensional (2D) 3d{1} state of the Ti ions. In combination with local density approximation, including a Hubbard U calculation, we sugges...

The Riemann Hypothesis, proved by Weil [19], is that the zeros of P (u) all lie on the circle |u| = 1/√q. Thus one may give a spectral interpretation of PC(u) as the characteristic polynomial of a 2g × 2g unitary matrix ΘC : PC(u) = det(I − u √ q ΘC) so that the eigenvalues eiθj of ΘC correspond to zeros q−1/2e−iθj of ZC(u). The matrix (or rather the conjugacy class) ΘC is called the unitarized...

The Gaussian spin–spin relaxation time T2G, as determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin-echo decay measurements, is found to be useful for diagnosis of quantum critical behaviour in heavy-fermion systems. Combining T2G with the spin–lattice relaxation time T1, the exponent f of the quantity T1T=T 2 2G T is predicted to be sensitive to the type of quantum criticality in the system con...

Bradykinin has been suggested as one of the key mediators of bronchial asthma. Polymorphisms with a potential functional relevance have been described in the B2 bradykinin receptor gene. Study of these polymorphisms in 77 children with asthma and 73 controls revealed no association. However, when comparing the asthmatics according to their age at onset (before and after age 4), the exon 1 allel...

The attachment of biotin to a small molecule provides a powerful tool in biology. Here, we present a systematic approach to identify biotinylated analogues of the Hsp90 inhibitor PU-H71 that are capable of permeating cell membranes so as to enable the investigation of Hsp90 complexes in live cells. The identified derivative 2g can isolate Hsp90 through affinity purification and, as we show, rep...