Uncoating ATPase catalyzes the ATP-dependent dissociation of clathrin from coated vesicles and empty cages. Following an uncoating reaction, clathrin triskelions are released intact, in a stoichiometric complex with bound uncoating protein. This overall uncoating process was dissected into two partial reactions. In the first, ATP hydrolysis drives the transient displacement of a portion of a tr...

This paper described the discovering process of some shortcomings of the conventional fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process and the proposed two-stage riser (TSR) FCC process for decreasing dry gas and coke yields and increasing light oil yield, which has been successfully applied in 12 industrial units. Furthermore, the multifunctional two-stage riser (MFT) FCC process proposed on the basis o...

The decision processes surrounding outsourcing are complicated by the very nature of uncertainty involved in the outsourcing process and by poor vendor management. In this study, we focus on vendor selection, one of the two basic issues of vendor management in outsourcing. Due to the limitation of the classic one-stage vendor selection model, we propose a two-stage vendor selection research fra...

This paper considers tbe rearrangement process in the twostage btoadcast switching network presented by F. IC. Hwang and G . W. Richards in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, October 1985. By defining a certain function it is possible to calculate an upper bound on the number bf connections to be moved during a rearrangement. When each inlet channel appears twice, the maximum number of connec...

This paper investigates the rhythmic organization of Mandarin utterances through both corpus analyses and experimental studies. We propose to add a new prosodic unit, the principle prosodic unit (PPU), into the prosodic hierarchy of Mandarin utterances. The key characteristic of PPU is that innerunit words normally have to be spoken closely, while inter-unit grouping is rather flexible. Because...

The authors propose a bi-objective two-stage decision-making process to help the marketing team of a company to determine which services make more profit. The decision is based on customer satisfaction measures which are related to the different company services. Thus, they constitute a multi-criteria assessment of the company’s performances. The first stage of the authors’ proposed process is ...

The type of lightweight aggregate and its volume fraction in a mix determine the density of lightweight concrete. Minimizing the density obviously requires a higher volume fraction, but this usually causes aggregates segregation in a conventional mixing process. This paper proposes a two-stage casting process to produce a lightweight concrete. This process involves placing lightweight aggregate...

In our study, two-stage anaerobic system was employed to treat high concentration methanol wastewater. The results showed the COD removal efficiency was over 90% at the volume loading of 26.8kgCOD/(m.d) and two-stage anaerobic digestion of methanol wastewater was more efficient and stabler than one stage. The pH of the two UASBs was always lower than 6.0, which wasn’t the suitable condition tha...