8 research outputs found
Coefficient estimates for certain subclass of bi-univalent functions associated with the class Pm(b, β)
No full textReal Time PCR Using Molecular Beacons: A New Tool to Identify Point Mutations and to Analyze Gene Expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
No full textHadamard and quasi-Hadamard properties for certain subclasses of analytic functions
No full textIn the present paper two subclasses \mathcalSq*(\itNe) and \mathcalKq(\itNe) of analytic functions are introduced by using q-derivative operator. Several properties including Hadamard product, quasi-Hadamard product, the necessary and sufficient condition and coefficient estimates for the functions belonging to these subclasses are obtained
E-ASSOC: Enhanced Energy Efficient User ASSOCiation algorithm for future cellular networks
No full textFuture cellular networks need to reduce their carbon footprint in view of rapidly increasing data traffic from emerging applications including Augmented Reality (AR)/ Virtual Reality (VR), autonomous vehicles and Internet of Things (IoT). A potential solution is the addition of small base stations, overlaid upon the macro base station, installed at locations encountering traffic hotspot or a coverage gap. However, the addition of base stations leads to an increase in the overall static network power consumption. Algorithms for energy efficiency aim to strike a balance between network throughput and power consumption. In this work, we evaluate several existing optimization based user association algorithms focusing on load balancing and power minimization metrics. Verification of the performance for all user association algorithms is carried out using MATLAB based system level simulator for a network topology comprising of one macro and four pico base stations considering static users. Motivated by the gains demonstrated using optimization based schemes, we consider the design of a lower complexity class of heuristic user association algorithms with comparable performance. The proposed E-ASSOC algorithm utilizes load at each base station and the difference amongst the two best Signal to Noise Ratios (SNRs) for each user as its threshold metrics. Simulation results demonstrate a gain of 41.26% in the total system throughput along with reduction of 32.96% in the system power consumption. Eventually indicating an increase of 87.83% in energy efficiency over the baseline max-SNR based association algorithm along with decrease of 7.2% for load balancing algorithm and 10.13% for power minimization algorithm. Fairness of the algorithms examined using Jain's Fairness Index (JFI) also shows marked improvement over the baseline scheme.M.S.Includes bibliographical reference
Real-time measurement of in vitro transcription
No full textWe have developed a simple method to measure RNA synthesis in real time. In this technique, transcription reactions are performed in the pres-ence of molecular beacons that possess a 2¢-O-methylribonucleotide backbone. These probes become ¯uorescent as they hybridize to nascent RNA during the course of synthesis. We found that molecular beacons synthesized from natural deoxy-ribonucleotides were not suitable, because they are copied by RNA polymerases, generating comple-mentary product strands that bind to the molecular beacons, causing a conformational change that results in unwanted ¯uorescence. However, when the molecular beacons are synthesized from 2¢-O-methylribonucleotides, they are not copied and ¯uorescence is strictly dependent upon transcrip-tion of the added template. Utilizing these modi®ed molecular beacons, quantitative comparisons were made of the activity of a variety of RNA polymerases and the effect of an inhibitor of transcription was determined
Electroconvulsive Therapy and Health Care Providers' Perceptions of the Effect of Media on Patients' Decisions
No full textabstract: Patients receive electroconvulsive therapy every day in the United States but negative media representations of the therapy put doubts in the minds of potential patients as to whether or not they should go through with the therapy or not. The purpose of this study was to explore how health care providers perceive the influence of media on patient decision-making regarding whether or not to receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and how they might address the perceived effects of said media. A total of 16 articles were analyzed in a literature review regarding the media's portrayal of ECT and/or how it affected patients and one interview with a physician was conducted. It was found that while the current literature still largely focuses on the negative media and its implications on patient decision-making, the physician had a more positive viewpoint. As a whole, the literature and physician agreed that media played a role in patients' decisions, but the media's portrayal of the therapy was not seen as negatively by the physician
Reduced glutathione and cysteine hydrochloride on crossbred bull semen
No full textOver the last few years, good quality freezable semen was not utilized effectively due to less knowledge about the freezability of semen. One reason is the lack of sufficient antioxidants in the seminal plasma and semen extender. The antioxidant content is reduced during the cryopreservation process and causes premature cryo-capacitation and modification of sperm membrane structure upon thawing. So the study of pre-freezing and post thaw seminal parameters like viability, motility, acrosomal integrity, lipid peroxide assay, vanguard distance traveled by sperm, mitochondrial membrane potential, velocity and motility parameters (CASA) and field fertility trial helped to assess the effectiveness of the additives. The conception rate was better in reduced glutathione than the cysteine hydrochloride treated group. The glutathione has improved the poor freezing and maintained the good freezable semen. Thus the field fertility rate was enhanced and in turn helped to prevent waste of good quality germplasm and repeat breeder syndrome in cows
