Motivated by applications to goodness of fit degenerate U-statistics testing, the Jackknife empirical likelihood approach for U-statistics is generalized to degenerate U-statistics. The proposed empirical likelihood based goodness of fit tests are asymptotically distribution free. The asymptotic theory for testing shift of location, spatial depth testing for central symmetry, Cramér-von Mises t...

Buffering of H+ and OHions in pure water probably represent the most primal physicochemical buffering phenomena, and their quantitative description is of great interest. In this context, “pure water” shall mean water without any solutes that could act as H+ buffers. In the following, it is understood that addition of H+ ions to pure water, or removal of H+ ions from it is carried out in the for...

Saliva buffering test is in need of improvements. This article illustrates the most commonly used saliva buffering capacity tests and its major problems. Starting with Ericsson and his laboratory buffer capacity test and all the way to Kitasako a lot of issues are to release. The aim of this paper is to put saliva buffering tests up to serious discussion.

Xiaoming Zhu Joseph M. Kahn University of California Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 307 Cory Hall Berkeley, California 94720-1772 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. Buffering with optical delay lines (ODLs) in optical packetswitching networks is a way to mitigate network contention. We study queueing models of ODLs in synchronous and asynchronous optical packe...

Expression of recombinant proteins and drugs in Pichia pastoris has been in development since the late 1980s and the number of recombinant proteins produced in P. pastoris has increased significantly in the past several years. Unlike bacteria, this strain is capable of producing complex proteins with post translational modifications such as correct folding, glycosylation, proteolytic maturation...

Action potential-dependent release of synaptic vesicles and short-term synaptic plasticity are dynamically regulated by the endogenous Ca(2+) buffers that shape [Ca(2+)] profiles within a presynaptic bouton. Calmodulin is one of the most abundant presynaptic proteins and it binds Ca(2+) faster than any other characterized endogenous neuronal Ca(2+) buffer. Direct effects of calmodulin on fast p...

Numerical simulations of the Fault Lake Tailings were conducted to assess the long-term impact of AMD-generation on downgradient receptors. The effects of impoundment geometry, contrasting permeability, water content, and mineralogy of tailings and native sediments were considered. Simulation results suggest that over a time period of 1,000 years only the top three meters of tailings become oxi...