Two naturally produced in vivo affinity resin substitutes have been combined with a self-cleaving tag to develop two novel affinity-based purification technologies. The first resin alternative is polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules and the second is elastin-like polypeptides (ELP). An engineered tripartite protein fusion is expressed in E. coli and purified through simple centrifugation. The intein self-cleaving tag then releases the target protein with a mild pH shift. The two systems have been successfully used at laboratory scale to purify more than a dozen proteins varying in size, complexity and activity, demonstrating the proof of principle, high purity and yield attainable. Hence, the cost associated with purification of...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-5443-6
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A Fast Attack Craft is a small, fast, ship for offensive tasks, mainly equipped with surface-to-surface missiles and/or torpedoes. Because of their relatively small size, FACs are generally limited to coastal areas and comparatively calm sea states. For example, navies operating in Asia and Europe use them, but in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans they are seen far less often. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1317-7589-5
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fastrack is a bus rapid transit scheme operating in the Thames Gateway area of Kent. It currently consists of two routes operated by Arriva Southern Counties on behalf of Kent County Council. Various measures are used to allow Fastrack vehicles to avoid traffic, including signal priority, reserved lanes, and dedicated busways. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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The effect of different aging treatments on fatigue crack growth behavior of AA6013 aluminum alloy was investigated. C(T) (Compact Tension) specimens were prepared in L-T and T-L direction for fatigue crack growth tests. Samples were in T651 as received, T42 which is solution heat treated at 538 C for 90 minutes, water quenched and aged in room temperature for 96 hours, and one group of samples were overaged at 245 C for 12 hours after T42 condition was achieved. Hardness and conductivity measurements were achieved for all conditions after the heat treatments. Fatigue crack growth tests were performed at as received condition T651, T42 and 245 C aged samples in laboratory air with sinusoidal loading of stress ratio R=0.1 and at a...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-2976-2
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Steel bridge structures are subjected to repeated cyclic stresses due to traffic load. The damage accumulation of these cyclic stresses can initiate cracks and lead to the fatigue failure of a bridge member. Generally, a certain safety level can be achieved by using the procedures specified in the AASHTO bridge design standards. However, changes in the service condition, such as an increase in vehicle weight and traffic volume, can impact the service life of a bridge structure. This book provides an evaluation procedure for fatigue reliability-based analysis of steel bridge structures. The procedure can be utilized to evaluate the remaining fatigue life at a prescribed confidence level. An application of bridge instrumentation,...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-4344-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
In materials science, fatigue is the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading. The maximum stress values are less than the ultimate tensile stress limit, and may be below the yield stress limit of the material. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1306-0934-4
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Online monitoring of induction motor health is of increasing interest, as the industrial processes that depend on these motors become more complex and as the performance to cost ratio of monitoring technology (e.g. sensors, microprocessors) continues to increase. Much effort has been directed towards developing methods that use conventional signal processing and pattern classification techniques. This text addresses the main issues of detecting electrical and mechanical faults using the information provided by current and vibration sensors, within a probabilistic framework. The faults studied in this work are both electrical and mechanical. The framework developed provides a common solution methodology for the detection of all these...
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While the robots gradually become a part of our daily lives, they already play vital roles in many critical operations. Some of these critical tasks include surgeries, battlefield operations, and tasks that take place in hazardous environments or distant locations such as space missions. In most of these tasks, remotely controlled robots are used instead of autonomous robots. This area of robotics is called teleoperation. Teleoperation systems must be reliable when used in critical tasks even under a subsystem or communication line failure. Teleoperation controllers are presented to compensate for instabilities due to communication line failures. Fault-tolerant design and modeling of the master and slave systems are also addressed at...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-8896-9
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Fault tree analysis is a failure analysis in which an undesired state of a system is analyzed using boolean logic to combine a series of lower-level events. This analysis method is mainly used in the field of safety engineering to quantitatively determine the probability of a safety hazard. Fault Tree Analysis was originally developed in 1962 at Bell Laboratories by H.A. Watson, under a U.S. Air Force Ballistics Systems Division contract to evaluate the Minuteman I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Launch Control System. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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Low power consumption and radiation hardness are generally competing requirements for space electronics as well as many earth-bound high reliability applications. Recently, subthreshold logic has emerged as a technology that can deliver the theoretical minimum energy per computation by running at ultra-low levels. The resulting performance degradation is tolerable due the dramatic increase in energy efficiency. However, operating circuits at such low voltages decreases the critical charge – Qcrit - required to corrupt the contents of memories and sequential elements. The marriage of subthreshold logic and high-reliability electronics is inevitable, yet there has been to date no investigation of the effects of radiation on circuits that...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-8226-5
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This book presents a methodology for fault diagnosis – detection, isolation, and identification – for dynamic systems whose models are faced with parametric uncertainties. This class of problems is often encountered in practice, and has not been exclusively dealt with in the past. The book begins with a review of existing literature on model-based, in particular, observer-based fault diagnosis for linear and nonlinear dynamic systems. It then focuses on a novel observer-based fault diagnosis technique for linear time-invariant systems with parametric uncertainties. The underlying observer-design utilizes recent results in the area of robust control of dynamic systems with parametric uncertainties, and is grounded in Kharitonov’s...
ISBN: 978-3-6390-6696-8
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Un faux positif ou fausse alarme est un resultat d'une prise de decision a deux choix (positif/negatif), declare positif a tort, la ou il est en realite negatif. Le resultat peut etre issu d'un test d'hypothese, d'un algorithme de classification automatique, ou tout simplement d'un choix arbitraire. Quand ce que l'on recherche est rare, et que le test utilise n'est pas parfaitement specifique, il est generalement beaucoup plus probable qu'un cas declare positif soit en realite un faux positif. La notion de faux positif est utilisee dans de nombreux domaines : • en biologie et en medecine ; • en securite informatique, pour les logiciels anti-virus, les filtres anti-spam (un message valable...
ISBN: 978-6-1340-5417-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
The Feather River Route is a rail line that was built and operated by the Western Pacific Railroad. It was constructed between 1906 and 1909, and connects the cities of Oakland, California, and Salt Lake City, Utah. The line was built to compete with the Central Pacific Railroad (and later Southern Pacific Railroad), which at the time held a nearly complete monopoly on Northern California rail service. The route derives its name from its crossing of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where it follows both the North and Middle Forks of the Feather River. The route is famous for its impressive engineering qualities and its considerable scenic value. The route is now owned and fully used by the Union Pacific Railroad, however the Union Pacific...
ISBN: 978-6-1306-4822-0
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A robust tracking algorithm is the cornerstone of human motion analysis applications. This book describes the tracking problem from three points of view: punctual, regional and human pose modelling. In the first one, the subject is considered as a compact object, small and rigid. In the second one, it is possible to model it as a set of connected regions, each one with its own properties, and which junction identifies the subject. The last point of view allows us to identify the person as a non-rigid object, with morphologic and dynamic properties which are intrinsically human. Our goal consists in the study and understanding of these three different stages in which the human being can be modelled, as well as the selection of the most...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-6577-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Similar to the transition from Windows XP to Windows Vista, certain capabilities and programs that are present in Windows Vista are no longer present in Windows 7 or have changed. The following is a list of features that originated in earlier versions of Windows and included up to Windows Vista. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1338-5782-7
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Over the past decade, use of hyperspectral imagery has been intensively investigated for agricultural product inspection, since it introduces a new noninvasive machine-vision method that gives a very accurate inspection rate. The spectral information in hyperspectral data uniquely characterizes and identifies the chemical and/or physical properties of the constituent parts of an agricultural product that are useful for product inspection. One of the main problems in using these high-dimensional data is that there are often not enough training samples. This book, therefore, provides novel feature selection algorithms to effectively reduce the dimensionality of hyperspectral data. Experimental results comparing the proposed algorithms to...
ISBN: 978-3-6391-6828-0
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As technology evolves, we develop new devices equipped with embedded cameras. An important application using this technology is face classification, usually applied to: surveillance, biometric verification or gesture recognition in user-friendly interfaces. Traditionally, images are treated as high dimensional vectors with the pixel values. Feature extraction is used to reduce this dimensionality, learning invariant discriminant characteristics that improve the posterior classification on the face subspace. The first part of this book introduces the classifier combination methods to derive a new family of feature extraction techniques making no specific statistical assumptions on the data to classify. Psychological studies suggest that...
ISBN: 978-3-8364-7295-1
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is the United States federal agency with jurisdiction over interstate electricity sales, wholesale electric rates, hydroelectric licensing, natural gas pricing, and oil pipeline rates. FERC also reviews and authorizes liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, interstate natural gas pipelines and non-federal hydropower projects.A predecessor agency, the Federal Power Commission, was founded in 1920 to allow cabinet members to coordinate federal hydropower development.In 1935, the FPC was transformed into an independent regulatory agency with five members nominated by the President and confirmed by the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Federal Highway, or Lebuhraya Persekutuan in Malay (or sometimes called it "Federal", "Highway Persekutuan" or "Highway Federal" by Klang Valley citizens) is a Malaysian highway connecting the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, and Klang, Selangor. The highway starts from Seputeh in Kuala Lumpur to Klang, Selangor. The Federal Highway is coded as Federal Route Jkr-ft2.png. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1316-9401-1
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Federal Aviation Administration. United States Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Act of 1958, Civil aviation, Civil aviation authority, Airline complaints, Flight inspection, Flight Standards District Office, Air traffic control, Air Traffic Organization, Air Navigation Service Provider, United States government role in civil aviation, NASA Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1302-0334-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula (also known as Bridge Formula B and the Federal Bridge Formula) is a mathematical formula in use in the United States by truck drivers and Department of Transportation (DOT) officials to determine the appropriate maximum gross weight for a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) based on axle number and spacing. The formula is part of federal weight and size regulations regarding interstate commercial traffic (intrastate traffic is subject to state limits). The formula is necessary to prevent heavy vehicles from dam aging roads and bridges. CMVs are most often tractor- trailers or buses, but the formula is of most interest to truck drivers due to the heavy loads...
ISBN: 978-6-1316-8116-5
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
Limited solar photovoltaic feed-in tariffs have been enacted by several State Governments in Australia and several have proposed feed-in tariffs schemes, the purpose of which is to encourage the adoption of renewable energy. A uniform federal scheme to supersede all State schemes has been proposed by Tasmanian Greens Senator Christine Milne, but not enacted. Only the ACT, has formerly enacted a gross feed-in tariff, although the Western Australian Government has promised a limited offer of 60 cents per kwh for gross PV production funded for four years. Other State Governments have enacted net feed-in tariff schemes which have been criticised for not providing enough incentive for households to install solar panels and thus for not...
ISBN: 978-6-1302-1123-3
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Feed-in electricity tariffs have been introduced in Germany to encourage the use of new energy technologies such as wind power, biomass, hydropower, geothermal power and solar photovoltaics. Each technology is eligible for a different feed-in rate. The aim is to meet Germany’s renewable energy goals of 12.5% of electricity consumption in 2010 and 20% in 2020. The policy also aims to encourage the development of renewable technologies, reduce external costs, and increase security of energy supply. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения...
ISBN: 978-6-1325-4312-7
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A feedwater heater is a power plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to a steam generating boiler. Preheating the feedwater reduces the irreversibilities involved in steam generation and therefore improves the thermodynamic efficiency of the system. This reduces plant operating costs and also helps to avoid thermal shock to the boiler metal when the feedwater is introduced back into the steam cycle. Many of the locomotive systems are ACFI type. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1341-0242-1
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