The putative primase gene and other genes associated with the Sfi21-prototype genome replication module are highly conserved in Streptococcus thermophilus bacteriophages. Expression of antisense RNAs complementary to the putative primase gene (pri3.1) from S. thermophilus phage kappa 3 provided significant protection from kappa 3 and two other Sfi21-type phages. Expression of pri3.10-AS, an ant...

Many scholars have argued that systems for treating waste impede organizations from preventing waste in the first place. They theorize that “end-of-pipe” (EOP) treatment diminishes the incentive to avoid creating waste in the production process and obscures the information necessary to devise prevention techniques. This prediction has been accepted widely, influencing both policy and practice, ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Adsorption and kinetic parameters, latent period, burst size and burst time, are characteristics of phage/host systems and can be affected by several environmental factors. As only few studies have focused on temperate dairy phages, we characterized these parameters on temperate Lactobacillus paracasei phages Φ iLp84 and Φ iLp1308, infective for probiotic strains. METHODS Phag...

Recent years have witnessed increasing concerns towards unfair decisions made by machine learning algorithms. To improve fairness in model decisions, various notions been proposed and many fairness-aware methods are developed. However, most of existing definitions focus only on single-label classification. Fairness for multi-label classification, where each instance is associated with more than...

Electro-osmotic pumping (EOP) theory and its characteristics (transport numbers, brine concentration, current density, current efficiency, electro-osmotic coefficients, etc.) of Selemion AMV and CMV ion-exchange membranes were studied. The brine concentration increased with increase in current density and feed water concentration. Current efficiency was nearly constant in a wide range of curren...

A powerful, cost-effective new method for studying single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is described. This method is based on the use of hairpin-shaped primers (HP), which give a sensitive and specific PCR amplification of each specific allele, without the use of costly fluorophore-labeled probes and any post-PCR manipulation. The amplification is monitored in real-time using SYBR Green I dye...

A data collection worksheet and guideline to collect HRA (Human Reliability Analysis) data with simulator data sources were developed for the HRA data handbook project by KAERI. Using the data worksheet, simulator data were collected and analyzed for an HRA qualitative database. The purpose of this paper is to define the causalities of operators’ UAs (Unsafe Acts) ending in an inappropriate com...

A multiethnic series of patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease (EOP) was studied to assess the frequency and nature of parkin/PARK2 gene mutations and to investigate phenotype-genotype relationships. Forty-six EOP probands with an onset age of < 45 years, and 14 affected relatives were ascertained from Italy, Brazil, Cuba, and Turkey. The genetic screening included direct sequencing and ...

1 Department of Computer Science. University of Seville. Spain. {aguilar, riquelme, mtoro}@lsi.us.es Abstract. In this paper, an editing algorithm based on the projection of the examples in each dimension is presented. The algorithm, that we have called EOP (Editing by Ordered Projection) has some interesting characteristics: important reduction of the number of examples from the database; lowe...

It is predicted that at the 90nm technolony node, leakage power will surpass dynamic power. This poses several challenges to high-speed circuit designers. By the same token, the complexity of low power, low operating frequency designs is threatened more and more by static power dissipation concerns. It has been recently shown that if energy per operation (EOP) is used as an optimization metric,...