The excess of a sequence in a Hilbert space H is the greatest number of elements that can be removed yet leave a set with the same closed span. This paper proves that if F is a frame for H and there exist infinitely many elements gn ∈ F such that F \ {gn} is complete for each individual n and if there is a uniform lower frame bound L for each frame F \ {gn}, then for each ε > 0 there exists an ...

A circle C holds a convex body K ⊂ R3 if K can’t be moved far away from its position without intersecting C . One of our results says that there is a convex body K ⊂ R3 such that the set of radii of all circles holding K has infinitely many components. Another result says that the circle is unique in the sense that every frame different from the circle holds a convex body K (actually a tetrahed...

We investigate the impact of monitor frame rate on the human ocular following response (OFR) and find that the response latency considerably depends on the frame rate in the range of 80-160 Hz, which is far above the flicker fusion limit. From the lowest to the highest frame rate the latency declines by roughly 10 ms. Moreover, the relationship between response latency and stimulus speed is aff...

The goal of voice conversion systems is to modify the voice of a source speaker to be perceived as if it had been uttered by another specific speaker. Many approaches found in the literature work based on statistical models and introduce an oversmoothing in the target features. Our proposal is a new model that combines several techniques used in unit selection for text-tospeech and a non-gaussi...

The open reading frame yqgR (now termed glcK), which had been sequenced as part of the genome project, encodes a glucose kinase of Bacillus subtilis. A 1.1-kb DNA fragment containing glcK complemented an Escherichia coli strain deficient in glucose kinase activity. Insertional mutagenesis of glcK resulted in a complete inactivation of glucose kinase activity in crude protein extracts, indicatin...

An independent set S of a connected graph G is called a frame if G − S is connected. If |S| = k, then S is called a k-frame. We prove the following theorem. Let k ≥ 2 be an integer, G be a connected graph with V (G) = {v1, v2, . . . , vn}, and degG(u) denote the degree of a vertex u. Suppose that for every 3-frame S = {va, vb, vc} such that 1 ≤ a < b < c ≤ n, degG(va) ≤ a, degG(vb) ≤ b − 1 and ...

The present study was aimed to construct a fusion plasmid harboring the extracellular domain of the influenza A M2-protein (M2e), which was fused to the N-terminus of the truncated HSP70 (HSP70359–610) molecule as a new approach for future vaccine research against influenza A. The amplified fragments, M2e and HSP70359-610 genes, were gel-purified. The products were then single digested with Bam...

We consider the set of all linear combinations with integer coefficients of the vectors of a unit tight equiangular (k, n) frame and are interested in the question whether this set is a lattice, that is, a discrete additive subgroup of the k-dimensional Euclidean space. We show that this is not the case if the cosine of the angle of the frame is irrational. We also prove that the set is a latti...

In order to study the regulation of a large block of contiguous genes at the rfa locus of Escherichia coli K-12 which are involved in synthesis and modification of the lipopolysaccharide core, the transposon TnlacZ was used to generate in-frame lacZ fusions to the coding regions of five genes (rfaQ, -G, -P, -B and -J) within this block. The beta-galactosidase activity of strains in which these ...

The desCribed architecture is based on a fusion of scan-line rendering and the conventional z-buffer algorithm. The frame buffers of several z-buffer engines are modified to scan out z-values as well as color values. Multiplexing devices combine the z/color streams from each pair of frame-buffers. These z/color streams are then combined by further multiplexers, creating a binary tree that funne...