The kinetics of slow onset inhibition of Proteinase K by a proteinaceous alkaline protease inhibitor (API) from a Streptomyces sp. is presented. The kinetic analysis revealed competitive inhibition of Proteinase K by API with an IC50 value 5.5 +/- 0.5 x 10-5 m. The progress curves were time-dependent, consistent with a two-step slow tight binding inhibition. The first step involved a rapid equi...

We present an overvi ew of our l aboratori es' research on Mul timodal Human-Computer Interf aces. By expl oi ti ng al l avai l abl e channel s of human communi cati on we aim to i ncrease exi bi l i ty, robustness, and natural ness of human-computer i nteracti on. The i nformati on sources we process i ncl ude Speech-, Character, and Gesture Recogni ti on, Faceand Eye Tracki ng, Li preadi ng, ...

We use Eisenbud and Harris’ theory of limit linear series (1986) to show that for a general smooth curve of genus g in characteristic 0, with general points Pi and indices ei such that P i(ei − 1) = 2d − 2− g, G 1 d (C, {(Pi, ei)}i) is made up of reduced points. We give a formula for the number of points, showing that it agrees with various known special cases. We also conjecture a correspondin...

This chapter is concerned primarily with emotional intelligence (EI) as it relates to learning and achievement in an academic setting. It aim s to assist researchers, educators, and politicians alike to decide what aspects of EI are worthwhile to promote and are possible to teach in schooI. We first discuss the conceptualization of EI on which the present contribution is based, and provide an o...

Let W be the germ of a smooth complex surface around an exceptional curve and let E be a rank 2 vector bundle on W. We study the cohomological properties of a finite sequence {Ei}1≤ i ≤ t of rank 2 vector bundles canonically associated to E. We calculate numerical invariants of E in terms of the splitting types of Ei, 1 ≤ i ≤ t. If S is a compact complex smooth surface and E is a rank two bundl...

Introduction: To prevention the healthy tissues from irreversible damages, monitoring the temperature variation of healthy tissues is critical parameter during thermal therapies. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is considered as a real time imaging modality for monitoring the temperature but researches show that it suffers from low temperature resolution. In this study usi...

For porcine myocardium, ultrasonic regional deformation parameters, systolic strain (epsilon(sys)) and peak systolic strain rate (SR(sys)), were compared with stroke volume (SV) and contractility [contractility index (CI)] measured as the ratio of end-systolic strain to end-systolic wall stress. Heart rate (HR) and contractility were varied by atrial pacing (AP = 120-180 beats/min, n = 7), incr...

In this paper we give the first deterministic polynomial time algorithm for testing whether a diagonal depth-3 circuit C(x1, . . . , xn) (i.e. C is a sum of powers of linear functions) is zero. We also prove an exponential lower bound showing that such a circuit will compute determinant or permanent only if there are exponentially many linear functions. Our techniques generalize to the followin...

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a term that has several definitions and theories. Three major views in the field of EI will be presented and discussed in this thesis, furthermore some practical implications for the research. There will also be a brief overview of the two fields of emotion and intelligence research, from where the concept of EI has emerged. The first view presented is Mayer and S...