Abstract In this work, octamercapto polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS-8SH) and octaphenol (POSS-8Phenol) were successfully synthetized. POSS-8Phenol was added into the synthesis process of liquid thermoset phenolic resin (PR) to obtain POSS-modified (POSS-PR). Chemical structures POSS-8SH, POSS-8Phenol, POSS-PR confirmed by FTIR 1 H-NMR. TG DTG analysis under different atmosphere showe...

Pr[|X −E[X]| ≥ a] = Pr[(x−E[x]) ≥ a] ≤ E[(x−E[x]) 2] a2 = Var[X] a2 1.3 Example: Coupon Collector Xi : # boxes bought when you have exactly i− 1 different coupons, and after buying these boxes, you have i different coupons. Let X = ∑ i∈nXi: # boxes one bought until at least one of every type of coupon is obtained. Let pi be the probability of obtaining a new coupon when we have exactly i−1 diff...

1 Concentration Inequalities Lemma 1 (Markov’s inequality). Let X be a non-negative random variable. For all λ > 0, Pr[X > λ] ≤ E[X] λ Lemma 2 (Chebyshev Inequality). For all λ > 0, Pr[|X −E[X]| > λ] ≤ var[X] λ2 Lemma 3 (The Chernoff Bound: Upper bound). Let X1, X2, ..., Xn be independent random variables taking values in {0, 1} with E[Xi] = pi. Let X = ∑n i=1Xi, and μ = E[X]. Then the followin...

The human immunodeficiency virus protease (HIV-1 PR) was expressed both in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and in mammalian cells. Inducible expression of HIV-1 PR arrested yeast growth, which was followed by cell lysis. The lytic phenotype included loss of plasma membrane integrity and cell wall breakage leading to the release of cell content to the medium. Given that neither poliovirus 2A ...

High mortality in pregnant women (PR) is a characteristic of hepatitis E in developing countries. To understand the pathogenesis of HEV infection in self-limiting disease during pregnancy, we compared clinical (PR-patients) and subclinical-HEV-infections in pregnant women in the first (SC-PR-1) and later (2nd and 3rd, SC-PR-2+3) trimesters with the respective healthy controls and acute non-PR p...

AIMS To investigate the association between tumour characteristics and HER-2/neu by immunohistochemistry in primary operable breast cancer. METHODS The association between HER-2/neu and other clinicopathological factors was evaluated in 1362 consecutive patients with primary breast cancer treated between 2000 and July 2003 in one centre. Microscopic tumour size, tumour grade, lymph node statu...

Bao, Jialin, Kaori Sato, Min Li, Youhe Gao, Ruhul Abid, William Aird, Michael Simons, and Mark J. Post. PR-39 and PR-11 peptides inhibit ischemia-reperfusion injury by blocking proteasome-mediated IkBa degradation. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 281: H2612–H2618, 2001.— PR-39 inhibits proteasome-mediated IkBa degradation and might protect against ischemia-reperfusion injury. We studied PR-39, ...

We introduce a new kind of language model, which models whole sentences or utterances directly using the Maximum Entropy paradigm. The new model is conceptually simpler, and more naturally suited to modeling whole-sentence phenomena, than the conditional ME models proposed to date. By avoiding the chain rule, the model treats each sentence or utterance as a \bag of features", where features are...

The red yeast, Phaffia rhodozyma (PR), has possible applications as a component of diets for use in the animal industry. Its primary value lies in its content of astaxanthin, which has been shown to be an antioxidant several times more effective than vitamin E. A total of 96 ([Landrace × Yorkshire] × Duroc) crossbred pigs with an initial BW of 58.61 ± 3.05 kg were used in this 10-wk feeding stu...