A packed bed thermal storage has several desirable characteristics to be used for energy storage. The behavior of packed bed is predicted by set of differential equations. A numerical solution is developed for packed bed storage tank accounting to the secondary phenomena of thermal losses and conduction effect. The effect of heat loss to surrounding (K1), conduction effect (K2) and air capacita...

Let τ(G) denote the number of vertices in a longest path of the graph G and let k1 and k2 be positive integers such that τ(G) = k1+k2. The question at hand is whether the vertex set V (G) can be partitioned into two subsets V1 and V2 such that τ(G[V1]) ≤ k1 and τ(G[V2]) ≤ k2. We show that several classes of graphs have this partition property.

Multiplex-PCR assay for identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates carrying gene clusters for biosynthesis of capsular polysaccharide (CPS) types K1 and K2 was developed. Genes wzc and orf10 of the cps cluster were applied as K1 and K2 specific markers respectively. The assay specificity was confirmed using 147 isolates of Klebsiella spp. including 77 K-antigen reference strains. The mult...

K1 killer strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae harbor RNA viruses that mediate secretion of K1, a protein toxin that kills virus-free cells. Recently, external K1 toxin was shown to directly activate TOK1 channels in the plasma membranes of sensitive yeast cells, leading to excess potassium flux and cell death. Here, a mechanism by which killer cells resist their own toxin is shown: internal tox...

BACKGROUND Although significant progress has been made in the treatment of lymphomas, many lymphomas exhibit resistance to cell death, suggesting a defective Fas signaling, which remains poorly understood. We previously reported that cells expressing the K1 protein of human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) resist death through the complex formation of the Ig-like domain of K1 with Fas. Recently, we invest...

We study the K-group K1 of the group ring of a finite group over a coefficient ring which is p-adically complete and admits a lift of Frobenius. In this paper, we consider the image of K1 under the determinant map; the central tool is the group logarithm which we can define using the Frobenius lift. Using this we prove a fixed point theorem for the determinantal image of K1.

Scharlemann and Schultens have shown that for any pair of knots K1 and K2 , w(K1#K2) ≥ max{w(K1), w(K2)} . Scharlemann and Thompson have given a scheme for possible examples where equality holds. Using results of Scharlemann–Schultens, Rieck–Sedgwick and Thompson, it is shown that for K = # i=1 Ki a connected sum of mp-small knots and K ′ any non-trivial knot, w(K#K ) > w(K). AMS Classification...

The clinical relevance of the urokinase receptor (uPAR) as a prognostic marker in ovarian cancer is well documented. We had shown that the uPAR sequence corresponding to 84-95 residues, linking D1 and D2 domains (uPAR84-95), drives cell migration and angiogenesis in a protease-independent manner. This study was aimed at defining the contribution of uPAR84-95 sequence to invasion of ovarian canc...

This study was designed to examine the in vitro antiproliferative effect of brassinin and its derivatives on human cancer cell lines. Among seven tested compounds, homobrassinin (K1; N-[2-(indol-3-yl)ethyl]-S-methyldithiocarbamate) exhibited the most potent activity with IC50 = 8.0 μM in human colorectal Caco2 cells and was selected for further studies. The flow cytometric analysis revealed a K...

A positive real sequence (ak) n k=0 is said to be unimodal if there exist integers k0, k1, 0 ≤ k0 ≤ k1 ≤ n such that a0 ≤ a1 ≤ · · · ≤ ak0 = ak0+1 = · · · = ak1 ≥ ak1+1 ≥ · · · ≥ an. The integers l, k0 ≤ l ≤ k1 are called the modes of the sequence. If k0 < k1 then (ak)k=0 is said to have a plateau of k1 − k0 + 1 elements; if k0 = k1 then it is said to have a peak. A real sequence is said to be ...