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Impacts of inventory billboard effect on RFID implementation strategy
No full textWe focus on the benefits of supply lead-time reduction enabled by RFID adoption, and examine if firms will still be better off having a lead-time as short as possible in the presence of the inventory billboard effect, which refers to the stimulating effect of inventory on demand. ? 2014 IEEE.EI
Correction to: The effect of Neuroligin-2 absence on sleep architecture and electroencephalographic activity in mice
Get PDFCorrection to: Molecular Brain (2018) 11:52 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13041-018-0394-3 Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the article was mistakenly submitted with the omission of two authors: Feng Cao and Zhengping Jia. The authors declare that this was an error made in good faith. The corrected author list and list of affiliations are used in this Correction. The changes made to the author list and list of affiliations are also listed below, as well as the revised ‘Acknowledgements’ section and ‘Authors’ contributions’ section
Corrigendum to 'A phosphorus/silicon-based, hyperbranched polymer for high-performance, fire-safe, transparent epoxy resins' [Polymer Degradation and Stability, 203 (2022) 110065]
No full textThe authors regret that the affiliation of Prof. Zhitian Liu in current manuscript is incorrect. The affiliation of Prof. Zhitian Liu is not ‘Center for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia’, and his affilication is ‘Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center of Optoelectronic and New Energy Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, PR China’. Hence, the author and affilication list should be as follows. Qiu Shia, Siqi Huob, Cheng Wanga, Guofeng Yea, Lingfeng Yua, Zhengping Fangb, Hao Wangc, Zhitian Liua a Hubei Engineering Technology Research Center of Optoelectronic and New Energy Materials, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, PR China b Laboratory of Polymer Materials and Engineering, NingboTech University, Ningbo 315100, PR China c Center for Future Materials, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350, Australia The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused
Figure 10 from: Wu M, Liu Z (2019) The first proven oxychilid land snail endemic to China (Eupulmonata, Gastrodontoidea). ZooKeys 870: 33-50. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.870.32903
No full textFigure 10 Sinoxychilus melanoleucus gen. nov. and sp. nov. Active animals. The photo was taken in laboratory rather than from the original habitat
Figure 7 from: Wu M, Liu Z (2019) The first proven oxychilid land snail endemic to China (Eupulmonata, Gastrodontoidea). ZooKeys 870: 33-50. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.870.32903
No full textFigure 7 Scatter plot of canonical variate 1 against canonical variate 2 (yielded by canonical variate analysis), showing morphological relationship among Sinoxychilus melanoleucus gen. nov. and sp. nov. (red dots), Zonites scrobiculatus scrobiculatus Gredler, 1885 and Zonites scrobiculatus hupeina Gredler, 1887 (light blue dots), Indian Ariophanta spp. (Raheem et al. 2014) (dark blue dots) and oxychiline spp. (Sysoev and Schileyko 2009) (orange dots). A diagram showing design of landmarks (numbered) and semi-landmarks (not numbered) is provided
Thermoelectric Properties of CdTe1-xClx Material Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering Method
No full textCdTe compound is a prospective thermoelectric material due to its high Seebeck coefficient and low thermal conductivity. In the present study, we optimized its carrier concentration by substituting Cl on the Te site in order to improve the electrical conductivity and decrease the lattice thermal conductivity. The polycrystalline CdTe1-x Cl (x) (x = 0.005, 0.01, 0.03, 0.05) samples were fabricated by solid state reaction followed with spark plasma sintering, and the relative densities of the sintered samples were higher than 98%. Thermoelectric properties, including Seebeck coefficient (alpha), electrical conductivity (sigma). and thermal conductivity (kappa), were measured in the temperature range of 300-700 K. The increase of Cl content (x) caused an increase of sigma, and the maximum ZT value of 0.2 was obtained at about 630 K for the CdTe0.97Cl0.03 sample
Education-oriented portable brain-controlled robot system
No full textIn this paper, we develop an education-oriented portable brain-controlled robot system, consisting of a multi-parameter bioelectric signal acquisition device and a Lego NXT Mindstorms robot. The education-oriented portable brain-controlled robot system is only 45 cm3in volume and weighs 70g. The signal acquisition section wirelessly acquires brain signals and the control section remotely navigates a Lego robot via brainwaves through a Bluetooth. Teenagers may use the low-cost brain-controlled robot to enjoy the pleasure of learning, to inspire their innovative ability and creativity, and to raise their mental concentration. Moreover, the proposed brain-controlled robot system might be used to improve the quality of adolescent education and autism recovery. The system modules include the brain signal acquisition, signal processing, and the robot control, which are developed in LabVIEW-based programming environment and easy to be expanded and upgraded. The comparative study of the education-oriented system and Cerebot equipped with the high precision Cerebus system widely used in laboratory research shows that the low-cost system delivers comparable accuracy for the robot control. An operation task is presented to train users' attentions and concentrations
Reproducibility of an HPLC-ESI-MS/MS method for the measurement of stable-isotope enrichment of in vivo-labeled muscle ATP synthase beta subunit.
Get PDFWe sought to evaluate the reproducibility of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based approach to measure the stable-isotope enrichment of in vivo-labeled muscle ATP synthase β subunit (β-F1-ATPase), a protein most directly involved in ATP production, and whose abundance is reduced under a variety of circumstances. Muscle was obtained from a rat infused with stable-isotope-labeled leucine. The muscle was homogenized, β-F1-ATPase immunoprecipitated, and the protein was resolved using 1D-SDS PAGE. Following trypsin digestion of the isolated protein, the resultant peptide mixtures were subjected to analysis by HPLC-ESI-MS/MS, which resulted in the detection of multiple β-F1-ATPase peptides. There were three β-F1-ATPase unique peptides with a leucine residue in the amino acid sequence, and which were detected with high intensity relative to other peptides and assigned with >95% probability to β-F1-ATPase. These peptides were specifically targeted for fragmentation to access their stable-isotope enrichment based on MS/MS peak areas calculated from extracted ion chromatographs for selected labeled and unlabeled fragment ions. Results showed best linearity (R(2) = 0.99) in the detection of MS/MS peak areas for both labeled and unlabeled fragment ions, over a wide range of amounts of injected protein, specifically for the β-F1-ATPase(134-143) peptide. Measured stable-isotope enrichment was highly reproducible for the β-F1-ATPase(134-143) peptide (CV = 2.9%). Further, using mixtures of synthetic labeled and unlabeled peptides we determined that there is an excellent linear relationship (R(2) = 0.99) between measured and predicted enrichment for percent enrichments ranging between 0.009% and 8.185% for the β-F1-ATPase(134-143) peptide. The described approach provides a reliable approach to measure the stable-isotope enrichment of in-vivo-labeled muscle β-F1-ATPase based on the determination of the enrichment of the β-F1-ATPase(134-143) peptide
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