Ž . ABSTRACT: A fast multigrid boundary element MBE method for solving the Poisson equation for macromolecular electrostatic calculations in a solvent is developed. To convert the integral equation of the BE method into a numerical linear equation of low dimensions, the MBE method uses an adaptive tesselation of the molecular surface by BEs with nonregular size. The size of the BEs increases in...

BACKGROUND Intraoperative testing of colonic anastomoses is routine in assuring anastamotic integrity. We sought to determine the efficacy of the methylene blue enema (MBE) as an intraoperative test for anastomotic leaks. METHODS This study is a retrospective review of consecutive colonic operations performed from January 2001 to December 2004 in a community hospital setting by a general surg...

Molecular Biology and Evolution (MBE) publishes research at the interface of molecular (including genomics) and evolutionary biology. The journal publishes manuscripts containing patterns, processes, and predictions at all levels of population, taxonomic, functional, and phenotypic organizations. In addition to fundamental discoveries of broad scope and impact, MBE publishes new and improved me...

The interface formation mechanism during the molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) of InAs/GaP has been studied with the aid of the In–Ga–P phase diagram. It is discovered that an initial dissolution and crystallization process similar to liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) may happen at sufficiently high temperature, resulting in a graded composition at the interface. Consequently, “parasitic LPE/MBE” is the na...

Water vapor column (WVC) obtained by GOME-2 instrument (GDP-4.6 version) onboard MetOp-A satellite platform is compared against reference WVC values derived from GPS (Global Positioning System) instruments from 2007 to 2012 at 21 places located at Iberian Peninsula. The accuracy and precision of GOME-2 to estimate the WVC is studied for different Iberian Peninsula zones using the mean (MBE) and...

Email is a rich source of quality and up-to-date information, and users need advanced facilities to store, organize and retrieve information in large volumes of electronic messages. In this paper, we present MBE (Mail-byExample), a visual interface integrated to the Lotus Notes email environment that enables users to define ad hoc queries for retrieving messages, folders, or information about t...

Advanced III–V transistors require unprecedented low-resistance contacts in order to simultaneously scale bandwidth, fmax and ft with the physical active region [M.J.W. Rodwell, M. Le, B. Brar, in: Proceedings of the IEEE, 96, 2008, p. 748]. Low-resistance contacts have been previously demonstrated using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), which provides active doping above 4 10 cm 3 and permits insi...

Motivated by a controversy over the correct results derived from the dynamic renormalization group (DRG) analysis of the nonlinear molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) equation, a self-consistent expansion for the nonlinear MBE theory is considered. The scaling exponents are obtained for spatially correlated noise of the general form D(r-r('),t-t('))=2D(0)[r-->-r(')](2rho-d)delta(t-t(')). I find a lowe...

Annotated speech corpora are indispensable to various areas of speech research. In this paper, we present a novel discriminative training approach for HMM-based automatic phonetic segmentation. The objective of the proposed minimum boundary error (MBE) discriminative training approach is to minimize the expected boundary errors over a set of phonetic alignments represented as a phonetic lattice...