Prox 1 is a vertebrate homeobox gene which is homologous to the Drosophila transcription factor, prospero. We have isolated a prox 1 cDNA from zebrafish, which encodes a protein that has 82%, 84% and 83% amino acid identity with chicken, mouse and human Prox 1, respectively. Antibodies raised against human Prox 1 cross-react with zebrafish Prox 1 and are used here to determine the expression pa...

Uniform sampling of training data has been commonly used in traditional stochastic optimization algorithms such as Proximal Stochastic Gradient Descent (prox-SGD) and Proximal Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent (prox-SDCA). Although uniform sampling can guarantee that the sampled stochastic quantity is an unbiased estimate of the corresponding true quantity, the resulting estimator may have a ra...

The preferential oxidation of carbon monoxide has been identified as an effective route to remove trace amounts of CO (approx. 0.5-1.0 vol%) in the H2-rich reformate gas stream after the low-temperature water-gas shift. Instead of noble metal-based catalysts, Co3O4-based catalysts were investigated in this study as cheaper and more readily available alternatives. This study aimed at investigati...

This paper studies, for a differential variational inequality involving a locally prox-regular set, a regularization process with a family of classical differential equations whose solutions converge to the solution of the differential variational inequality. The concept of local prox-regularity will be termed in a quantified way, as (r, α)-prox-regularity.

The preferential CO oxidation (so-called CO-PROX) is the selective amid H2-rich atmospheres, a process where ceria-based materials are consolidated catalysts. This article aims to disentangle potential CO–H2 synergism under CO-PROX conditions on low-index ceria surfaces (111), (110) and (100). Polycrystalline ceria, nanorods nanocubes were prepared assess physicochemical features of targeted su...

The aim of the PROX reaction is to reduce the CO content of hydrogen feed to proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) by selective oxidation of CO in the presence of excess hydrogen. Both Pt and Pd on ceria are active in CO oxidation (without hydrogen) while Pd is poorly active in the presence of hydrogen. In this paper we aimed at finding the reasons of such behavior, using the same techniq...

Since the prox-mapping of stochastic mirror descent is intractable when directly being applied to the optimization problem (1), we propose the -inexact prox-mapping within the stochastic mirror descent framework in Section 3. Instead of solving the prox-mapping exactly, we approximate the solution with error. In this section, we will show as long as the approximation error is tolerate, the stoc...

A copper-ceria bulk catalyst has been compared to a series of catalysts designed according to the as called “supported approach”, corresponding to the dispersion of low content mixed copper-ceria oxide on alumina matrix. The principal characteristics of both types of catalysts are contemplated and the differences in their electronic and redox properties discussed in details. As a plus, the gold...