Blue-green algae as a source of protein

Anabaena flos-aquae, an N-fixing and photosynthesising blue-green alga, was grown in defined liquid media. Although this organism grew well in autotrophic solution, it rendered a higher yield in a medium containing 1% glucose. A good procedure for extracting the protein from the cells was heating them in 3 n HCl at 95°C for 10 min, adjusting the pH to 11 with 3n NaOH after cooling, letting them stand at room temperature for 1h, centrifuging out the debris and exposing the supernatant to 15,000 international lux of fluorescent lamp light for 10h. The treated solution contained 80% of the nitrogen of the cells and it had a pale yellow colour. The protein of the solution was further fractionated into a pH-4-insoluble fraction and an acetone-insoluble fraction. Both fractions were easily digested by pepsin in vitro and were deficient in sulphur-containing amino acids. The amino acid scores of the fractions were 74 and 60, respectively.     

On Downlink Beamforming Methods: Capacity and Error Probability Performance

In space-division multiple access (SDMA), different beamforming or space-domain precoding techniques can be applied. We investigate two different space-domain precoding methods, the maximum capacity (MC) and the minimum mean square error (MMSE) precoders, for the downlink channel. It is shown that the MMSE precoding, which is practically implementable, can provide a reasonable performance in terms of the capacity and error probability, while the MC precoding is not practical (although it is optimum in terms of the capacity). Space-domain precoding methods are also applied to code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems.This work was supported by the HY-SDR Research Center at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, under the ITRC Program of MIC, Korea.Jinho Choi was born in Seoul, Korea. He recieved the B.E. degree (magna cum laude) in electronics engineering from Sogang University in 1989 and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1991 and 1994, respectively. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications,University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Choi received the 1999 Best Paper Award of Signal Processing from EURASIP.Seungwon Choi received the B.S. degree from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, in 1980 and the M.S. degree from Seoul National University, Seoul, in 1982, both the electronic engineering. He received the M.S. degree in computer engineering in 1985 and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering in 1988 from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.From 1982 to 1984, he was with LG Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul, where he helped developed the 8-mm camcorder system. From 1988 to 1989, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Syracuse University, as an Assistant Professor. In 1989, he joined the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, daejeon, Korea, where he developed the adaptive algorithm for real-time application in secure telephone systems. From 1990 to 1992, he was with yhe Communication Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, as a science and Technology Agency Fellow, developing adaptive antenna array system and adaptive equalizing filters for applications in land-mobile communications. He joined Hanyang University, Seoul, in 1992 as an Assistant Professor. He is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanyang University. His research interests include digital communications and adaptive signal processing with a recent focus on the real-time implementation of smart antenna system for 3G mobile communication system.