1. The sedimentation constant of hog thyroglobulin is 19.2c10(-13). That of human thyroglobulin is essentially the same. 2. The specific volume of hog thyroglobulin is 0.72. 3. The isoelectric point of native hog thyroglobulin is at pH 4.58, that of denatured thyroglobulin at pH 5.0. 4. The molecular weight of hog thyroglobulin is, in round numbers, 700,000, as calculated from the sedimentation...

Density functional calculations (B3 LYP/6-31+G*) on molecular clusters and a quantum cluster equilibrium (QCE) model were used to calculate thermodynamic and structural properties of four isotopically labeled methanol species. The method allowed the reproduction of the characteristic differences in boiling points and heats of vaporization. Structural changes were also detected and related to re...

This guide gives some instructions on how to perform graphical significance tests for HardyWeinberg equilibrium (HWE) by depicting the acceptance region for HWE in a ternary plot with routines from the package HardyWeinberg. The outline of this guide is as follows. Section 2 describes how the R package HardyWeinberg can be installed. Section 3 shows how to perform some of the classical tests fo...

Alleles, genotypes and haplotypes (combinations of alleles) have been widely used in gene-disease association studies. More recently, association studies using diplotypes (haplotype pairs on homologous chromosomes) have become increasingly common. This article reviews the rationale of the four types of association analyses and discusses the situations in which diplotype-based analyses are more ...

This paper proposes an optimization algorithm, the dimension-down iterative algorithm (DDIA), for solving a mixed transportation network design problem (MNDP), which is generally expressed as a mathematical programming with equilibrium constraint (MPEC). The upper level of the MNDP aims to optimize the network performance via both the expansion of the existing links and the addition of new cand...

I argue that increased foreign competition can affect technical choice and skill differentials even when actual imports do not rise significantly. I present a model of General Oligopolistic Equilibrium ("GOLE") in which a reduction in import barriers (whether technological or policy-imposed) encourages more strategic investment by incumbent firms. The predictions accord with many of the stylise...

The effects of thermodynamic non-ideality on the forms of sedimentation equilibrium distributions for several isoelectric proteins have been analysed on the statistical-mechanical basis of excluded volume to obtain an estimate of the extent of protein solvation. Values of the effective solvation parameter delta are reported for ellipsoidal as well as spherical models of the proteins, taken to b...

Highresolution remote sensing satellite data serve as a source for equilibrium line (EL) analysis on top of glaciers. Data fusion techniques are used in order to take advantage from both the multispectral and panchromatic information available from simultaneously acquired IRS-LISS and -PAN recordings. As a result of segmentation between snow and ice the EL is derived based on multispectral clas...

BACKGROUND Red blood cells (RBCs) labeled with single-photon emitters have been clinically used for blood-pool imaging. Although some PET tracers have been introduced for blood-pool imaging, they have not yet been widely used. The present study investigated the feasibility of labeling RBCs with 18F-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-D-glucose (18F-FDG) for blood-pool imaging with PET. RBCs isolated from venous b...

The objective of this work is to provide a critical assessment of the basic methodology advanced in current macroeconomic theories to understand the relationship between technological progress and unemployment. The standard reference will be the so called natural unemployment schemes, that in what follows will be fully identified with equilibrium unemployment theories1. Our conviction is that u...