Sphingans, a group of structurally closely related bacterial exopolysaccharides produced by members of the genus Sphingomonas, can be applied in a variety of industries such as food, cement, and personal care applications due to their high viscosity. A high sphingan-producing-bacterium, Sphingomonas sp. WG can secret large quantity of sphingan designated as WL. To enhance the production of WL, ...

Conventional approaches for fixed-point implementation of digital signal processing algorithms require the scaling and word-length (WL) optimization in the algorithm level and the high-level synthesis for functional unit sharing in the architecture level. However, the algorithm-level WL optimization has a few limitations because it can neither utilize the functional unit sharing information for...

In the literature on EEG during working memory (WM), the role of alpha power (8-13 Hz) during WM retention has remained unclear. We recorded EEG while 18 subjects retained sets of consonants in memory for 3 s; setsize (ss4, ss6, ss8) determines memory workload. Theta power (4-8 Hz) increased with workload in all subjects in middle frontal electrodes. Using ICA, the increase in theta could be at...

BACKGROUND The majority of kidney transplant (KT) candidates spend some time on the transplant wait-list (WL) prior to kidney transplantation. We examined the impact of WL inactivity on clinical outcomes. METHODS All adult KT candidates first actively wait-listed between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 2005, in the United States were grouped by frequency of inactivity on the WL. Transplanta...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to identify factors that are independently associated with early attrition and successful weight loss (WL) in an obesity-management program. METHODS Participants were 9,498 patients enrolled in treatment at the Wharton Weight Management Clinic for at least 6 months. Predictors of early attrition (<6 months) and successful WL (≥5 %) were analyzed using relative ris...

For InAs/GaAs quantum dot system, the evolution of the wetting layer (WL) with the InAs deposition thickness has been studied by reflectance difference spectroscopy (RDS). Two transitions related to the heavyand light-hole in the WL have been distinguished in RD spectra. Taking into account the strain and segregation effects, a model has been presented to deduce the InAs amount in the WL and th...

Neural networks are a very successful machine learning technique. At present, deep (multi-layer) neural networks are the most successful among the known machine learning techniques. However, they still have some limitations, One of their main limitations is that their learning process still too slow. The major reason why learning in neural networks is slow is that neural networks are currently ...

BACKGROUND Cachexia affects the majority of patients with advanced cancer and is associated with a reduction in treatment tolerance, response to therapy, and duration of survival. One impediment towards the effective treatment of cachexia is a validated classification system. METHODS 41 patients with resectable upper gastrointestinal (GI) or pancreatic cancer underwent characterisation for ca...

Biopsies fro the vastus lateralis muscle of male weightlifters (WL; n=6; X +/- SE, age=27.0 +/- 2.1 years), and non-weight-trained men (CON; n=7; age=27.0 +/- 2.0 years) were compared for fiber types, myosin heavy chain (MHC) and titin content, and fiber type-specific capillary density. Differences (p<0.05) were observed for percent fiber types IIC (WL=0.4 +/- 0.2, CON=2.4 +/- 0.8); IIA (WL=50....