The centriole is a conserved microtubule-based organelle essential for both centrosome formation and cilium biogenesis. It has a unique 9-fold symmetry and its assembly is governed by at least five component proteins (SPD-2, ZYG-1, SAS-5, SAS-6 and SAS-4), which are recruited in a hierarchical order. Recently published structural studies of the SAS-6 N-terminal domain have greatly advanced our ...

PURPOSE To investigate the distribution of corneal and ocular spherical aberrations (SAs) in eyes with cataract in the Taiwanese population. METHODS Corneal and ocular SAs were measured in the central 6-mm optical zone using wavefront aberrometry. Axial length (AL) and keratometry (K) were also evaluated in each eye. RESULTS A total of 413 eyes in 234 patients were analyzed. The mean age of...

During the past two decades, our company Baosteel (the Baoshan Iron and Steel Corporation, Shanghai, China) has accumulated enormous data and information. Much knowledge, such as relationship, rules and patterns among these raw data, is hidden. It was very hard to reveal completely the knowledge since no advanced tools existed. Here we thank SAS Institute for providing us powerful tools to solv...

BACKGROUND Predicting subaortic stenosis (SAS) in adult Golden Retriever dogs (GRs) by evaluating them as puppies is hampered by the progressive expression of the SAS phenotype in youth. In some children who develop SAS as adults, an abnormal aortoseptal angle (AoSA) precedes development of stenosis. OBJECTIVES To determine the normal AoSA in young adult GRs using echocardiography; to assess ...

SAS® Grid Computing is a scale-out SAS® solution that enables SAS applications to better utilize I/O and compute intensive computing resources. This requires the use of high-performance shared storage (SS) that allows all servers to access the same file system. SS may be implemented via traditional NFS NAS or clustered file systems (CFS) like GPFS. This paper uses the Intel® Enterprise Edition ...

SAS® ODS provides programmers with the ability to extract selected information from a procedure and store it in datasets. Such datasets can then be combined to summarize the results from numerous procedures. The SAS Macro facility can be used to execute and extract information from repetitively called SAS procedures. “Macro Variable Arrays” can simplify the extraction of information from SAS pr...

Optimal (NH(4))(2)SO(4) concentrations were sought for serum fractionation in order to obtain the gamma globulin as free as possible from other serum components while maintaining a reasonable recovery. Various ammonium sulfate concentrations were used to fractionate sera from mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, monkeys, chimpanzees, swine, chicken, and cattle. All precipitates and supernatants were an...

Recent advances in classical planning have used the SAS+ formalism, and several effective heuristics have been developed based on the SAS+ formalism. Comparing to the traditional STRIPS/ADL formalism, SAS+ is capable of capturing vital information such as domain transition structures and causal dependencies. In this paper, we propose a new SAS+ based incomplete planning approach. Instead of usi...

Somatic complaints are often key features of anxiety pathology. Although most measures of anxiety symptoms capture somatic complaints to some degree, the Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) was developed primarily as a measure of somatic symptoms associated with anxiety responding. We evaluated the psychometric properties and factor structure of the SAS in two large undergraduate samples who comple...