We evaluated the performance of the lithium ion-selective electrode (ISE) in the Du Pont Na/K/Li analyzer. Lithium concentrations in 106 serum samples from patients being treated with lithium were measured in duplicate with the ISE and by flame photometry. The slope of the regression line for the two methods was 1.004 with a standard error of the estimate of 0.049 mmol/L (x = flame photometry, ...

A procedure for measuring in situ sulfide concentrations by coupling diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) to solid-state ion-selective electrodes (ISE) is described and evaluated. Laboratory tests were performed to evaluate the coupling of these techniques, and these results were compared to the previously used methods of computer imaging densitometry (CID) and methylene blue. An average elu...

The three Instruction Set Extension (ISE) enumeration algorithms described in this paper are Subgraph Enumeration (SE), Subgraph Removal (SR), and Lucky Subgraph Removal (LSR). SE exhaustively enumerates all convex subgraphs of a dataflow graph. SR iteratively finds the highest gain subgraph and then locks the related nodes out of the solution space for the next iteration of the search. Finally...

The use of Instruction Set Extension (ISE) in customising embedded processors for a specific application has been studied extensively in recent years. The addition of a set of complex arithmetic instructions to a baseline core has proven to be a cost-effective means of meeting design performance requirements. This thesis proposes and evaluates a reconfigurable ISE implementation called “Configu...

A coated-wire ion-selective electrode (ISE) based on cyclam (1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane) as a neutral carrier in a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) matrix was fabricated for the determination of Ag(I) ions. The coated-wire ISE exhibited a linear Nernstian response over the range 1 x 10(-1) to 1 x 10(-7) M with a slope of 59 +/- 2 mV per decade change and a detection limit of 5 x 10(-8) M. The IS...

Helping people with schizophrenia to gain competitive employment is a key to improving their quality of life and facilitating their recovery.1 Through a combination of individual placement and support, work-related social skills training, and cognitive remediation training (CRT), our earlier studies demonstrated that 78.8% of people with severe mental illness succeeded in getting competitive em...

We present TEMPEST, an autonomous, energy-cognizant planner for long-range rover navigation. Its purpose is to plan sequences of actions that avoid large-scale obstacles, balance energy expenses against available resources, and satisfy operational constraints while attaining a distant goal. An algorithm called Incremental Search Engine (ISE) enables TEMPEST to search over high-dimensional space...

We have previously identified an Alu-derived Intronic Splicing enhancer (ISE) in the Ataxia Teleangectasia Mutated gene (ATM) that facilitates intron pre-mRNA processing and leads to the inclusion of a cryptic exon in the final mRNA transcript. By using an RNA pull-down assay, we show here that hnRNPA1/A2, HuR and DAZAP1 splicing factors and DHX36 RNA helicase bind to the ISE. By functional stu...