The citrate-condensing enzyme was isolated as a crystalline protein from pig heart by Ochoa et al. (1). These workers reported that pig heart contained considerable quantities of the condensing enzyme. We were surprised when we obtained much higher yields of this enzyme from pig heart tissue with a different extraction procedure (2). This observation led to a purification procedure that yields ...

We present fixed point theorems for a nonexpansive mapping from a closed convex subset of a uniformly convex Banach space into itself under some asymptotic contraction assumptions. They generalize results valid for bounded convex sets or asymptotically compact sets. In this note we generalize a famous result by Browder [3], Göhde [6] and Kirk [8], recently extended by Luc in [14], by using the ...

Combined heat, and power dispatch promotes interactions, synergies between electric systems, district heating systems. However, nonlinear, nonconvex flow imposes significant challenges on finding qualified solutions efficiently. Most existing methods rely constant assumptions to derive a linear model, sacrificing optimality for computational simplicity. This paper proposes novel convex combined...

In this paper, we consider an optimal power allocation scheme for Rayleigh fading channels in cognitive relay networks considering both total transmit power and average interference power constraints. We derive the optimal power allocation scheme between the cognitive source and relay aiming at minimizing the bit error rate of cognitive system by applying convex optimization method. Simulation ...

We propose an energy-efficient procedure for transponder configuration in FMF-based elastic optical networks in which quality of service and physical constraints are guaranteed and joint optimization of transmit optical power, temporal, spatial and spectral variables are addressed. We use geometric convexification techniques to provide convex representations for quality of service, transponder ...

We consider sets and maps defined over an o-minimal structure over the reals, such as real semi-algebraic or globally subanalytic sets. A monotone map is a multi-dimensional generalization of a usual univariate monotone continuous function on an open interval, while the closure of the graph of a monotone map is a generalization of a compact convex set. In a particular case of an identically con...

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are used to estimate different morphologies, analysis of river profile, delineating drainage basin and drainage pattern associated with lithological and structural changes. The study area is Maroon River located in Khuzestan Province, Iran. In this study geomorphometric analysis based on DEM carried out to understand Maroon river uplift rate and tectonic- erosion...