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Immunogenicity of Haemophilus influenzae b conjugate vaccine (HibTITER) and safety of HibTITER and a combination vaccine of diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and HibTITER in infants two months of age: a preliminary report.
No full textPreconditioners for the dual-primal FETI methods on nonmatching grids: Numerical study
No full textThe FETI-DP method is a substructuring method that uses Lagrange multipliers to match the continuity condition on the subdomain boundaries. For the FETI-DP method on nonmatching grids, two different formulations are known with respect to how to employ the mortar matching condition. Keeping step with the developments of the FETI-DP methods, a variety of preconditioners for the FETI-DP operator have been developed. However, there has not been any numerical study for the FETI-DP method, which compares those preconditioners on nonmatching grids while there have been a few papers for numerical study on the comparison of FETI preconditioners. Therefore, we present the numerical study of four different preconditioners for two-dimensional elliptic problems. The numerical results confirm the superiority of the preconditioner by Kim and Lee [1] for noncomparably nonmatching grids, while the superiority of the preconditioner by Dryja and Widlund [2] is confirmed for matching grids and comparably nonmatching grids. (C) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.This work was partially supported by KRF-2001-041-D00038 and KOSEF R01-2000-00008
Food habits of Formosan rock macaques (Macaca cyclopis) in Jentse, northeastern Taiwan, assessed by fecal analysis and behavioral observation.
No full textPoly(3-hydroxybutyrate) production from whey by high density cultivation of recombinant Escherichia coli
No full textRecombinant Escherichia coli strain GCSC 6576, harboring a high-copy-number plasmid containing the Ralstonia eutropha genes for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthesis and the E. coli ftsZ gene, was employed to produce poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) from whey, pH-stat fed-batch fermentation, using whey powder as the nutrient feed, produced cellular dry weight and PHB concentrations of 109 g l(-1) and 50 g l(-1) respectively in 47 h. When concentrated whey solution containing 210 g l(-1) lactose was used as the nutrient feed, cellular dry weight and PHB concentrations of 87 g l(-1) and 69 g l(-1) respectively could be obtained in 49 h by pH-stat fed-batch culture. The PHB content was as high as 80% of the cellular dry weight. These results suggest that cost-effective production of PHB is possible by fed-batch culture of recombinant E. coli using concentrated whey solution as a substrate.The PHA biosynthesis genes used in the con-
struction of pSYL107 were kindly provided by A. SteinbuÈ chel. We
thank Mary Berlyn for kindly providing the strain GCSC 6576. We
also thank Anton Middelberg for his valuable suggestions during
his visit to the KAIST. This work was supported by The Korea
Science and Engineering Foundation
Influence of Morphological Behavior on the Order-disorder Transition Temperature of Some Block Copolymers
No full textSectoral allocation by gender of Latin American workers over the liberalization period of the 1990s
Full text linkThe recent restructuring of Latin American economies has renewed interest in the effects of trade liberalization, on labor markets, and on the gender division of labor. The author does not attempt to establish casuality between economic reforms, and the types of jobs that men and women hold. Instead, she provides a detailed description of the trends in male, and female formal, and informal sector participation during the economic reform period in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The author first compares the gender composition of the formal, informal wage, and self-employment sectors in a year before reforms (1988 for Argentina, 1989 for Brazil, and Costa Rica), and a year after reforms implementation (1997 for Argentina, 1995 for Brazil and Costa Rica). Although women continued to be more likely than men to work in the informal wage sector, there is no trend of"masculinization"or"feminization"of the informal sector, or any other. Instead, in Argentina men have overtaken women as the most prevalent workers in the informal wage sector, while in Brazil, the opposite has occurred (as men move into self-employment). In Costa Rica there have been no statistical, observable changes. The author then considers the distribution across sectors within each gender group, to identify whether men, and women are more likely to select different sectors in the post-reform period relative to the pre-reform period. Among both men, and women in all three countries (except Brazilian men), workers have become more likely to hold informal wage jobs, and less likely to hold formal sector jobs. Trends in human capital accumulation explain these changes for both men, and women, while changes in gender roles, primarily in homecare and marriage, do not seem to have an effect.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Policies,Population&Development,Public Health Promotion,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Population&Development,Banks&Banking Reform,Work&Working Conditions
A preconditioner for the FETI-DP formulation with mortar methods in two dimensions
Full text linkIn this paper, we consider a dual-primal FETI (FETI-DP) method for elliptic problems on nonmatching grids. The FETI-DP method is a domain decomposition method that uses Lagrange multipliers to match solutions continuously across subdomain boundaries in the sense of dual-primal variables. We use the mortar matching condition as the continuity constraints for the FETI-DP formulation. We construct a preconditioner for the FETI-DP operator and show that the condition number of the preconditioned FETI-DP operator is bounded by C max/i=1,...,N {(1 + log (H-i/h(i)))(2)}, where H-i and h(i) are sizes of domain and mesh for each subdomain, respectively, and C is a constant independent of H-i's and h(i)'s. We allow jumps of coefficients of elliptic problems across subdomain boundaries. Numerical results are included.This work was partially supported by KRF-2001-041-D0003
Effects of operating voltage waveforms and power control methods on the light emission from a Xe plasma flat lamp
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