OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to evaluate the IGF-I generation test (IGF-I gen) as a possible indirect test of Growth Hormone (GH) secretory status. METHODS Sixty-five GH deficient (GHD 1 and 2) and 86 control children were studied. Children in the GHD-1 subgroup (n=33) had low GH values (<10 microg/L) after clonidine and levo-dopa while those in the GHD-2 subgroup (n=32) had normal GH v...

This section explains the design flow of the units described in figure S1. Once the prerequisites for the paths for the enzymatic action are determined, the design of the units is further constrained to represent the conformation change. We first designed the unit outline of S such that two combined units can represent a conformation change. The designed S, (SL and SS) can rotate through a rela...

If P is a p-group for some prime p we shall write M (P ) to denote the set of all maximal subgroups of P and Md(P ) = {P1, ..., Pd} to denote any set of maximal subgroups of P such that ∩d i=1 Pi = Φ(P ) and d is as small as possible. In this paper, the structure of a finite group G under some assumptions on the c-normal or s-quasinormally embedded subgroups in Md(P ), for each prime p, and Syl...

Lightweight real-time network communication is crucial for commodity cluster systems and embedded control systems. This paper introduces the design, implementation and evaluation of SS-RTUDP, a novel zero-copy data path based real-time communication protocol with efficient communication resources management. To avoid unpredictable overheads during SS-RTUDP packets transmission, all communicatio...

Let G be a group hyperbolic relative to a collection of subgroups {Hλ, λ ∈ Λ}. We say that a subgroup Q ≤ G is hyperbolically embedded into G, if G is hyperbolic relative to {Hλ, λ ∈ Λ} ∪ {Q}. In this paper we obtain a characterization of hyperbolically embedded subgroups. In particular, we show that if an element g ∈ G has infinite order and is not conjugate to an element of some Hλ, λ ∈ Λ, th...

To investigate white matter (WM) abnormalities in neocortical epilepsy, we extract supratentorial WM parameters from raw tensor magnetic resonance images (MRI) with automated region-of-interest (ROI) registrations. Sixteen patients having neocortical seizures with secondarily generalised convulsions and 16 age-matched normal subjects were imaged with high-resolution and diffusion tensor MRIs. A...

DNA helicases unwind duplex DNA to form the single-stranded (ss) DNA intermediates required for replication, recombination, and repair in reactions that require nucleoside 5'-triphosphate hydrolysis. Helicases generally require a ss-DNA flanking the duplex in order to initiate unwinding in vitro; however, the precise function of the ss-DNA is not understood. If a helicase unwinds DNA by a "pass...

in this paper, we extend the construction of a fuzzy subgroup generated by a fuzzy subset to $l$-setting. this construction is illustrated by an example. we also prove that for an $l$-subset of a group, the subgroup generated by its level subset is the level subset of the subgroup generated by that $l$-subset provided the given $l$-subset possesses sup-property.

Let M be a Kähler compact manifold and let G be a connected compact subgroup of its full isometry group which it acts in a Hamiltonian fashion on M and it has a one-dimensional center. In this article we analyze the Kähler reduction M λ and the Kähler cut M λ with respect to the Hamiltonian action of the connected component of the center of G which contains the identity, that we will denote by ...