In recent years, a variety of extensions and refinements have been developed for data augmentation based model fitting routines. These developments aim to extend the application, improve the speed, and/or simplify the implementation of data augmentation methods, such as the deterministic EM algorithm for mode finding and stochastic Gibbs sampler and other auxiliary-variable based methods for po...

Gaseous dimethyl sulphide (DMS) was eliminated in a biotrickling filter with Thiobacillus thioparus grown in polyurethane foam cubes as carrier material. The temperature, pH and empty bed residence time of the gas were maintained at 30 degrees C, 7.0 and 40 s, respectively. In the first 45 days, DMS loads of around 2.0 gDMS m(-3) h(-1) were fed to the BTF to adapt T. thioparus to DMS consumptio...

PURPOSE To establish an effective system for isolating primary retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) from newborn mice. METHODS The retinas were separated from enucleated eyeballs of Crl:CD-1 mice on postnatal day 1 to 4. RGCs were purified using three different methods, including two-step immunopanning (TSI), direct magnetic separation (DMS), and immunopanning-magnetic separation (IMS). Harvested ce...

We show how the domain of locality in a TAG elementary tree, (Frank 1992), can be extended through adjunction to include optional arguments for a dass of motion verbs and how the adjunctions can be restricted appropriately through the use of semantic features. Same examples of motion verbs we consider are shown in Table 1, which categorizes the verbs according to Levin classes (Levin 1993). Not...

[1] We identify dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) as the major reduced sulfur-containing gas emitted from bushfires in Australia’s Northern Territory. Like dimethyl sulfide (DMS), DMDS is oxidized in the atmosphere to sulfur dioxide (SO2) and methane sulfonic acid (MSA), which are intermediates in the formation of sulfuric acid (H2SO4). The mixing ratios of DMDS and DMS were the highest we have ever de...