BACKGROUND Both mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and azathioprine (AZA) are immunosuppressive drugs that inhibit purine synthesis. In theory, MMF selectively inhibits lymphocyte proliferation, while AZA has well-known effects on red blood cells and thrombocytes as well. In renal transplant recipients we replaced CsA therapy by MMF in an attempt to reduce the immunosuppressive load 1 year after kidne...

In voice conversion, a simple frame-level mean and variance normalization is typically used for fundamental frequency (F0) transformation, which is text-independent and requires no parallel training data. Some advanced methods transform pitch contours instead, but require either parallel training data or syllabic annotations. We propose a method which retains the simplicity and text-independenc...

High-level synthesis is a novel method to generate a RTlevel hardware description automatically from a high-level language such as C, and is used at recent digital circuit design. Floating-point to fixedpoint conversion with bit-length optimization is one of the key issues for the area and speed optimization in high-level synthesis. However, the conversion task is a rather tedious work for desi...

objective(s): this paper describes synthesispolyvinyl alcohol/caf2:er nanofibers because of  its  photoluminescence properties.materials and methods:  first, caf2:er nanocomposite synthesized with co-precipitation method. in order to prepare polyvinyl alcohol (pva)/caf2:er nanofibers, caf2:er nanocomposites were added to the polyvinyl alcohol (pva) polymer. pva/caf2:er composite nanofibers were...

We are attempting a conversion of the over 30-year-old Mizar system into the (by comparison) recently developed format OMDoc. This paper deals with low-level observations and conversion decisions, and includes some examples of the to-date conversion progress.

alkaline hydrolysis of ethyl acetate is essentially an irreversible and second order reaction. industrial importance of the reaction product, sodium acetate, necessitate for process improvement in terms of maximum conversion and economical usage of raw materials. statistical design of experiments was utilized to enhance conversion in both batch and plug flow reactors.a full two level factorial ...