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Surfactants in Mineral Processing
Uniformity and thickness of surfactant coating on particles in highly concentrated colloidal solutions significantly affect the optical behavior of particulate systems. Diffuse reflectance transmittance of suc...
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Triacylglycerols Participate in the Eukaryotic Pathway of PUFAs Biosynthesis in the Red Microalga Porphyridium Cruentum
Wada and Murata (1) selected desaturase-deficient mutants of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis based on their chill sensitivity. Wada et al. (2) have further shown that PUFAs are necessary for growth and tolerance...
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Interaction of Photosynthetic Pigments with Various Organic Solvents as Revealed from Magnetic Circular Dichroism Measurements
Photosynthetic pigments perform various important roles in the light-harvesting and energy-transducing systems in plants and bacteria. The functional structures of photosynthetic pigments in various enviroment...
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Characterization of Bchl A’s in B873, B820 and B777 of Light-Harvesting Complex 1 (LH1) from Rhodospirillum Rubrum by Magnetic Circular Dichroism
The light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes (LH) collect light energy highly efficiently and transfer it to the photosynthetic reaction centers (RC). In the purple photosynthetic bacteria there are two type...
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Recent Advances in the Discovery and Development of Flavonoids and their Analogues as Antitumor and Anti-HIV Agents
Antitumor and anti-HIV flavonoids and their analogues will be reviewed with emphasis on those discovered in our laboratory. The active antitumor compounds include the antileukemic tricin (1) and kaempferol-3-O-β-...
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Features of Cyclopentadienyl Metal Catalysts for Ethylene Copoly-Merization in Gas and Liquid Phase
Catalysis in gas phase reactions for the production of olefin polymers is well known in the polyolefin industry [1]. Developments in the UNIPOL® process for polyethylene, EPR/EPDM, and polypropylene continue t...
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The Role of Fatty Acids in the Pathogenesis of Retinal Degeneration
Retinal dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of ocular disorders that result in varying degrees of progressive peripheral or central visual loss.1 Though these dystrophies have traditionally been distinguished b...
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Integrating OpenMP into Janus
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Clinical Spectrum in Autosomal Dominant Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy with a Mutation in ELOVL4 Gene
In 1909, Stargardt reported a recessively inherited progressive atrophic macular dystrophy associated with perifoveal flecks1. This condition, now termed Stargardt’s macular dystrophy, presents insidiously within...
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A Secure Process-Service Model
Encapsulating processes into process-services is a hot topic nowadays. Time management is an important issue for service providers to ensure the successful execution of process-services, and time information i...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Virtual Workflow Management System in Grid Environment
Building a workflow management system (WFMS) is a large project. However, with the development of grid technology, it becomes easily to do that. In Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA), everything is a servic...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Temporal Problems in Service-Based Workflows
Time constraint is a key problem in workflow management. Now, with the emergence of new technologies such as web service, grid, this problem has become more complicated in service-based, loose-coupled workflow...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Feature Selection for Chinese Character Sense Discrimination
Word sense discrimination is to group occurrences of a word into clusters based on unsupervised classification method, where each cluster consists of occurrences having same meaning. Feature extraction method ...
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Formulation of Aesthetic Evaluation & Selection
Abstract. The application of evolutionary algorithms in an aesthetic domain involves human subjective judgment and artificial selection. Evolutionary systems that facilitate this selection strategy are referre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Online Support Vector Regression for System Identification
Conventional Support Vector Regression (SVR) is not capable of online setting and its training algorithm is inefficient in real-time applications. Through analyzing the possible variation of support vector set...
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Least Squares Wavelet Support Vector Machines for Nonlinear System Identification
A novel admissible support vector kernel, namely the wavelet kernel satisfying wavelet frames, is presented based on the wavelet theory. The wavelet kernel can approximate arbitrary functions, and is especiall...
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Usage of Hybrid Model Based on Concepts Correlations in Adaption to Changes of User’s Interest
In digital library, the provided personalized service responds to the user’s interests. Therefore, it is important to trace and understand the changes of the user’s interests, so as to supply pertinent service...
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Modeling and Analysis of Multi-agent Systems Based on π-Calculus
Dynamic architecture of multi-agent systems (MAS) is very important for the critical systems. As the existing formal specifications cannot describe the dynamic architecture of MAS, while π-calculus is specially s...
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Word Sense Disambiguation by Semi-supervised Learning
In this paper we propose to use a semi-supervised learning algorithm to deal with word sense disambiguation problem. We evaluated a semi-supervised learning algorithm, local and global consistency algorithm, o...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of Face Recognition Door Manager System Based on DSP
This paper focuses on the design of hardware framework with DSP based on embedded face recognition door manager system including the detailed technology of circuit design among the image sensor, DSP, the door ...
