Molecular interactions between β-lactoglobulin (β-LG) and sugar beet pectin (SBP) were studied using online multi-detection high performance size exclusion chromatography (HPSEC) at neutral pH and 50mM ionic strength. The hydrodynamic properties of various interacting polymer fractions were characterized in detail and compared with those of β-LG and SBP. Results showed that ∼6.5% (w/w) of nativ...

BACKGROUND Apoptosis, which is involved in the process of mesangial cell and podocyte loss in diabetic nephropathy, is known to be regulated by protein kinase B/Akt (Akt). A number of studies have therefore investigated the activity of Akt under diabetic conditions, but the results have not been consistent. In this study, we hypothesized that apoptosis may occur differentially and that Akt may ...

The generalized conductance ϕ(G,H) between two weighted graphs G and H on the same vertex set V is defined as ratioϕ(G,H)=minS⊆V⁡capG(S,S¯)capH(S,S¯), where capG(S,S¯) total weight of edges crossing from S⊆V to S¯=V−S. We show that minimum eigenvalue λ(LG,LH) pair Laplacians LG LH satisfiesϕ(G,H)≥λ(LG,LH)≥ϕ(G,H)ϕ(G)/16, ϕ(G) standard G. A cut meets this bound can be obtained eigenvector corresp...

1Unit of Electron Microscopy, Department of Dermatopathology, Unilab Lg, Liege University Hospital, Liege, Belgium 2Rheumatology Department, Saint-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium 3Laboratory of Skin Bioengineering and Imaging, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liege University, Liege, Belgium *Corresponding author: Gerald E. Pierard, Department of Clinical Sciences, Laboratory of Skin...

In this article, we take the point of view that the strange-bottomed (0, 1) mesons Bs0 and Bs1 are the conventional bs̄ mesons, and calculate the electromagnetic coupling constants d, g1, g2 and g3 with the light-cone QCD sum rules. Then we study the radiative decays Bs0 → B sγ, Bs1 → Bsγ, Bs1 → B sγ and Bs1 → Bs0γ, and observe the decay widths are rather narrow. We can search the strange-bottom...

Suppose each of k ≤ no(1) players holds an n-bit number xi in its hand. The players wish to determine if ∑ i≤k xi = s. We give a public-coin protocol with error 1% and communication O(k lg k). The communication bound is independent of n, and for k ≥ 3 improves on the O(k lg n) bound by Nisan (Bolyai Soc. Math. Studies; 1993). Our protocol also applies to addition modulo m. In this case we give ...

A large group one-session exposure treatment (LG-OST) based on indirect modeled exposure strategies was carried out to investigate its feasibility and effectiveness in a sample of highly spider fearful individuals (N = 78). The stability of LG-OST-effects was assessed at 8-month follow-up (FU). Furthermore, a second sample (N = 30) of highly spider fearful individuals was treated in a standard,...

Many routing problems in parallel processing such as concentration and permutation problems can be cast as sorting problems. In this paper we consider the problem of sorting on a new model, called an adaptive sorting network. We show that any sequence of n bits can be sorted on this model in O(lg n) bit-level delay using O(n) constant fanin gates. This improves the cost complexity of Batcher’s ...

Partially coherent standard and elegant Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams of all orders are introduced as a natural extension of coherent standard and elegant LG beams to the stochastic domain. By expanding the LG modes into a finite sum of Hermite-Gaussian modes, the analytical formulae are obtained for the cross-spectral densities of partially coherent standard and elegant LG beams in the source p...