We present the result of near-infrared and optical observations of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 carried out by the KANATA telescope (Uemura et al. 2008 in these proceedings). S5 0716+714 has both a long term violent variability and a short-term variability. The shortest time-scale variability, so-called microvariability, provides a clue of the minimum size of the emitting region. Here, we repo...

It’s easy to check that any specific string of length n has probability at most (1 − δ), hence SV-sources are n log 1 1−δ -sources. Also recall that SV-sources are (k, l) block sources where k = l log 1 1−δ . Suppose δ = log 1 1−δ , then k = δl. Take a hash-based extractor E : {0, 1} × {0, 1} → {0, 1}. Here, our weak-source is a SVsource over the strings of length n and suppose k = n log 1 1−δ ...

We studied with morphometric methods the endocytosis by pheochromocytoma cells of a conjugate of wheat germ agglutinin with ferritin (WGA-Ft) and of horseradish peroxidase (HRP). Quantitative studies indicated that WGA-Ft was cleared slowly from cell surfaces and that it was not recycled to the surface. Cells labeled with WGA-Ft for 15 min at room temperature were washed and incubated in medium...

This study has examined the hypotheses that, firstly, the ethanol induces delayed cellular protection in mouse cardiac myocytes against subsequent sustained simulated ischemia (SI). Secondly, the delayed cyto-protective effect induced by the ethanol depends more on time than the dose in mouse cardiac myocytes. Finally, ethanol-induced delayed cellular protection in mouse cardiac myocytes is med...

In this paper, we consider a variant of adaptive robust combinatorial optimization problems where the decision maker can prepare K solutions and choose best among them upon knowledge true data realizations. We suppose that uncertainty may affect objective constraints through functions are not necessarily linear. propose new exact algorithm for solving these when feasible set nominal problem doe...