Fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (FSR) membranes isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle are impermeable to inulin-(14)C (mol wt 5,000), and dextran-(14)C (mol wt 15,000-90,000) at pH 7.0-9.0, yielding an excluded space of 4-5 microl/mg microsomal protein. In the same pH range urea and sucrose readily penetrate the FSR membrane. EDTA or EGTA (1 mM) increased the permeability of microsomes to inul...

An important challenge in Wireless Sensor Networks used in industrial applications is its reliability with respect to guaranteed delivery while maintaining minimum overhead. Although the traditional ad hoc routing protocols are designed for obtaining the maximum throughput, they cannot guarantee reliability. For process control applications, every information conveyed by every sensor is importa...

The full sibship reconstruction (FSR) problem is the problem of inferring all groups of full siblings from a given population sample using genetic marker data without parental information. The FSR problem remains a significant challenge for computational biology, since an exact solution for the problem has not been found. The new algorithm, named SIMPSON-assisted Descending Ratio (SDR), is devi...

This paper reviews the concept of a forward-scatter radar (FSR) which exploits the enhanced bistatic radar cross-section of a target in the forward direction (as opposed to the conventional back-scatter direction). FSR has the potential to reliably detect and track small air-vehicles with high sensitivity. Fundamentals of radar (including monostatic, bistatic, and multistatic) and a brief histo...

Pillai and colleagues (3) in 2002 reported a striking correlation (100.0% positive; P 0.005) of the fsr virulence gene with Enterococcus faecalis isolated from a collection of endocarditis cases. The comparison group of stool culture isolates had a significantly lower rate of positive fsr tests (53%) by methods described earlier by Qin et al. (4, 5). The fsr locus has been noted to be widely di...

Folk song research (FSR) often deals with large collections of tunes that have various types of relations to each other. Computational methods can support the study of the contents of these collections. Music Information Retrieval (MIR) research provides such methods. Yet a fruitful cooperation of both disciplines is difficult to achieve. We present a role-model to structure this cooperation in...

Fractional protein synthesis rates (FSR) are widely measured by the flooding dose technique via either an i.g. or an i.v. route. This study was conducted to compare differences in tracer incorporation and FSR in organs and tissues of fed piglets. The piglets were surgically implanted with catheters and randomly assigned to receive a flooding dose of Phe (1.5 mmol/kg body weight, 40 percent mola...

Fractional protein synthesis rates (FSR) are widely measured by the flooding dose technique via either an i.g. or an i.v. route. This study was conducted to compare differences in tracer incorporation and FSR in organs and tissues of fed piglets. The piglets were surgically implanted with catheters and randomly assigned to receive a flooding dose of Phe (1.5 mmol/kg body weight, 40 percent mola...

Visual latencies and temporal dynamics of area 18 and PMLS direction-selective complex cells were defined with a reverse correlation method. The method allowed us to analyze the time course of responses to motion steps, without confounding temporal integration effects. Several measures of response latency and direction tuning dynamics were quantified: optimal latency (OL), latency of first and ...

The process of Ca2+ release from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) comprises 4 phases in smooth muscle cells. Phase 1 is characterized by a large increase of the intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) with a minimal reduction of the free luminal SR [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]FSR). Importantly, active SR Ca2+ ATPases (SERCA pumps) are necessary for phase 1 to occur. This situation cannot be explained by the st...