Coloration of mefenamic acid (MFA) was investigated in the presence of mesoporous silica FSM-16 with 16.0 A (Oc) and 45.0 A (Doc) pore diameter. The color change of MFA/FSM-16 physical mixture from white to deep blue was observed by sealed-heating (SH) and the subsequent humidification (HU). The coloration and the color difference were caused by the changes of chroma and lightness. In the case ...

The effect of physiographic region on microfibril angle (MFA) in loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) ia the southern United States was evaluated. MFA was determined at 1.4,4.6,7.6, 10.7, and 13.7 m up the stem of 59 trees, representing five physiographic regions. A nonlinear mixadeffects model was developed to test for regional differences in the initial value of MFA, the rate at which MFA changes w...

Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is a powerful approach for quantifying plant central carbon metabolism based upon a combination of extracellular flux measurements and intracellular isotope labeling measurements. In this chapter, we present the method of isotopically nonstationary (13)C MFA (INST-MFA), which is applicable to autotrophic systems that are at metabolic steady state but are sampled du...

A new mapping heuristic is developed, based on the recently proposed Mean Field Annealing (MFA) algorithm. An eecient implementation scheme, which decreases the complexity of the proposed algorithm by asymptotical factors, is also given. Performance of the proposed MFA algorithm is evaluated in comparison with two well-known heuristics; Simulated Annealing and Kernighan-Lin. Results of the expe...

A new mapping heuristic is developed based on the recently proposed Mean Field Annealing MFA algorithm An e cient implementation scheme which decreases the complexity of the proposed algorithm by asymptotical factors is also given Per formance of the proposed MFA algorithm is evaluated in comparison with two well known heuristics Simulated Annealing and Kernighan Lin Results of the exper iments...

We propose an e cient MFA formulation for mapping un structured domains to hypercube connected distributed memory archi tectures In the general MFA formulation N P spin variables are main tained and an individual MFA iteration requires davgP P time for the mapping of a sparse domain graph withN vertices and average vertex degree of davg to a parallel architecture with P processors The proposed ...

In this paper, we consider the convergence speed of mean field annealing (MFA). We combine MFA with microcanonical simulation(MCS) method and propose a new algorithm called microcanonical mean field annealing(MCMFA). In the proposed algorithm, cooling speed is controlled by current temperature so that computation in the MFA can be reduced without degradation of performance. In addition, the sol...

We propose an eecient MFA formulation for mapping un-structured domains to hypercube-connected distributed-memory archi-tectures. In the general MFA formulation, NP spin variables are maintained and an individual MFA iteration requires (davgP +P 2) time for the mapping of a sparse domain graph with N vertices and average vertex degree of davg to a parallel architecture with P processors. The pr...

Mean-field approximations (MFAs) are frequently used in physics. When a process (such as an epidemic or a synchronization) on a network is approximated by MFA, a major hurdle is the determination of those graphs for which MFA is reasonably accurate. Here, we present an accuracy criterion for Markovian susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) epidemics on any network, based on the spectrum of the ...

BACKGROUND Mature-fruit abscission (MFA) in fleshy-fruit is a genetically controlled process with mechanisms that, contrary to immature-fruit abscission, has not been fully characterized. Here, we use pyrosequencing to characterize the transcriptomes of melon abscission zone (AZ) at three stages during AZ-cell separation in order to understand MFA control at an early stage of AZ-activation. P...