The development of a long-acting delivery system for D-Phe-Cys-Tyr-D-Trp-Lys-Val-Cys-Trp-NH2 (RC-160), an octapeptide analog of somatostatin, required the establishment of a method for determining the concentration of this analog in serum during treatment. A sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay (RIA) for RC-160 was developed and used for following the rate of liberation of this peptide from ...

Reinforced Concrete (RC) deep beams are commonly used in structural design to transfer vertical loads when there is a vertical discontinuity in the load path. Due to their deep geometry, the force distribution within the RC deep beams is very different than the RC shallow beams. There are some strut and tie model (STM) already been developed for RC deep beams. However, most of these models are ...

In this study, tapered polymer fiber sensors (TPFSs) have been employed to detect the vibration of a reinforced concrete beam (RC beam). The sensing principle was based on transmission modes theory. The natural frequency of an RC beam was theoretically analyzed. Experiments were carried out with sensors mounted on the surface or embedded in the RC beam. Vibration detection results agreed well w...

Accurate constitutive models of the constituent materials in a reinforced concrete (RC) section, namely, unconfined concrete, confined concrete and reinforcing steel are necessary in fiber-based discretization of RC components for use in nonlinear analysis of RC structures. This paper examines the sensitivity to different constitutive models in predicting the inelastic seismic behavior of RC fr...

OBJECTIVES To test the feasibility of a randomised trial in muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and compare outcomes in patients who receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy (RC) or selective bladder preservation (SBP), where definitive treatment [RC or radiotherapy (RT)] is determined by response to chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS SPARE is a multicentre randomised...

As Reconfigurable Computing (RC) systems become more common place among application scientists and developers, a mechanism for porting existing work to other platforms is increasingly desirable. The constantly changing technologies and architectures in today’s RC platforms present a challenge to any developer wishing to move from an early development system to a newer system. Many new RC system...

The bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum contains a simple photosynthetic system, in which the reaction center (RC) receives energy from the light harvesting LH1 complex. We have used high-resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) to image 2D crystals of the RCLH1 complex of R. rubrum. The AFM topographs show that the RC-LH1 complex is ~94Å in height; the RC-H subunit protrudes from the cytoplasmic f...

Mobile communication system uses Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) as one of the efficient digital modulation techniques. Pulse-shaping technique plays an important role in digital transmission. Root-Raised Cosine (RRC) and Raised Cosine (RC) filters are two important pulse-shaping filters used in mobile communication system. In this paper we have presented the study of some useful parameter...

A risk of covert insertion of circuitry into reconfigurable computing (RC) systems exists. This paper reviews risks of hardware attack on field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based RC systems and proposes a method for secure system credentials generation (unique, random and partially anonymous) and trusted self-reconfiguration, using a secure reconfiguration controller (SeReCon) and partial rec...

We study the problem of private function retrieval (PFR) in a distributed storage system. In PFR the user wishes to retrieve a linear combination of M messages stored in noncolluding (N,K) MDS coded databases while revealing no information about the coefficients of the intended linear combination to any of the individual databases. We present an achievable scheme for MDS coded PFR with a rate t...