The asymptotic correlations among maximum likelihood (ML) and various least squares (LS) estimators in factor analysis are derived. The LS estimators include the unweighted (ULS) and weighted estimators for unstandardized variables and the ULS estimators for standardized variables. The derived formulas cover the cases with restrictions on parameters. Numerical examples with simulations are provided to confirm the accuracy of the formulas and the influence of scales on the asymptotic correlations.
Azithromycin (AZM), a new macrolide antibiotic, in fine granules and in capsules was administered at a standard dose of 10 mg/kg once daily for 3 days to pediatric patients with bacterial infections. AZM was studied for its pharmacokinetic and clinical evaluation. 1. AZM possessed potent activity against Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria that had been clinically isolated. 2. Plasma samples were collected from two patients diagnosed as having pneumonia or enteritis, and urine samples were collected from one patient diagnosed as having pneumonia for drug level determination. The drug concentrations in plasma were 0.095 and 0.204 microgram/ml just before the end of treatment, and 0.017 and 0.096 microgram/ml at 48 hours post-treatment. The drug concentrations in urine were 5.16 micrograms/ml and 5.63 micrograms/ml during a period between 24 and 48 hours and between 48 and 72 hours after the start of treatment, respectively. 3. The drug was found effective in 37 of 38 cases with various pediatric infections. AZM treatment eradicated bacteria in 17 of 30 strains (56.7%). 4. One patient complained of mild vomiting, while abnormal laboratory test results indicating mild eosinophilia were reported in four cases. 相似文献
Der f 2 is a major mite allergen composed of 129 amino acid residues. To determine the major epitopes on Der f 2 recognized by human IgE antibodies, artificial mutations were introduced to Der f 2 protein. The IgE-binding activity of Der f 2 was significantly decreased by deletion of 10 amino acids at the N-terminus or nine amino acids at the C-terminus. Site-directed mutagenesis with a single amino acid replacement by Ala or Leu in both N- and C-terminal regions as well as a central portion was performed to generate 42 single-site mutations. Amino acid replacement around a disulfide bond of Cys8-Cys119 caused a marked decrease in IgE-binding activity. Furthermore, a distinct decrease in IgE-binding was also caused by Ala-substitution close to a disulfide bond of Cys73-Cys78 and by mutations of a few charged residues. From these results, it was concluded that the two disulfide-forming regions of Der f 2 and several charged residues are important for forming major epitope structures recognized by human IgE antibodies. 相似文献
Abstract— In this paper, a software‐processed edge‐ and level‐adaptive overdrive (SELAO) method, which is a novel overdrive technique that utilizes not only a temporal change of gray levels but also a spatial edge intensity of motion pictures, is proposed. The SELAO method is a software video‐processing technology to improve motion‐picture quality rendered on LCDs more than is possible with a conventional SLAO method without edge‐adaptive overdrive, and it works in real time on commonly used personal computers (PCs). 相似文献
Vanadium oxide spread highly on TiO2 (anatase, A) and SnO2, and rather densely on TiO2 (rutile, R) and ZrO2 to make the monolayer in less than 4–5 V nm−2. Profile of acid site of the monolayer was measured by temperature programmed desorption of ammonia, and its relation with the surface oxidation state was studied. The acid site density was high on the V2O5/TiO2 (A) independent of the degree of oxidation. On the other hand, that of V2O5/TiO2 (R) and V2O5/ZrO2 depended on the oxidation state, and the high value of the concentration was observed on the oxidized one. The strength of acid site generated on the V2O5 monolayer on TiO2 was as high as on the HZSM-5 zeolite. Turnover frequency (TOF) of propane conversion, and product selectivity were measured in propane oxidation. Among tested oxides, the V2O5/TiO2 (A) showed the high TOF and selectivity to form propylene, while those loaded on TiO2 (R) and ZrO2 the small TOF and poor selectivity. Therefore, the reaction profile of activity and selectivity could be related with the extent of spreading and solid acidity. An idea of limit of the acid site density ca. 1.5 nm−2 on the monolayer was elucidated. 相似文献
The release and reduction of NOx in a NOx storage-reduction (NSR) catalyst were studied with a transient reaction analysis in the millisecond range, which was made possible by the combination of pulsed injection of gases and time resolved time-of-flight mass spectrometry. After an O2 pulse and a subsequent NO pulse were injected into a pellet of the Pt/Ba/Al2O3 catalyst, the time profiles of several gas products, NO, N2, NH3 and H2O, were obtained as a result of the release and reduction of NOx caused by H2 injection. Comparing the time profiles in another analysis, which were obtained using a model catalyst consisting of a flat 5 nmPt/Ba(NO3)2/cordierite plate, the release and reduction of NOx on Pt/Ba/Al2O3 catalyst that stored NOx took the following two steps; in the first step NO molecules were released from Ba and in the second step the released NO was reduced into N2 by H2 pulse injection. When this H2 pulse was injected in a large amount, NO was reduced to NH3 instead of N2.
A only small amount of H2O was detected because of the strong affinity for alumina support. We can analyze the NOx regeneration process to separate two steps of the NOx release and reduction by a detailed analysis of the time profiles using a two-step reaction model. From the result of the analysis, it is found that the rate constant for NOx release increased as temperature increase. 相似文献
Stochastic resonance (SR) is known as a phenomenon in which the presence of noise helps a nonlinear system in amplifying a
weak (under barrier) signal. In this paper, we investigate how SR behavior can be observed in practical autoassociative neural
networks with the Hopfield-type memory under the stochastic dynamics. We focus on SR responses in two systems which consist
of three and 156 neurons. These cases are considered as effective double-well and multi-well models. It is demonstrated that
the neural network can enhance weak subthreshold signals composed of the stored pattern trains and have higher coherence abilities
between stimulus and response. 相似文献
By means of SR X-ray diffractometry, cooperative Jahn-Teller distortion as a structural phase transformation of the first kind is directly confirmed by a splitting of Laue spots. It is understood that the degenerate ground state of a nonmagnetic doublet (3) of Ho3+ in a cubic Ho-elpasolite, Fm3m(O
h5
), at least above 600 mK, is lifted up by a distortion below 150 mK, which was predicted by a splitting of the NQR spectrum and anomalies in the specific heat and magnetic susceptibility. This structural transformation shows not only the lowest transition temperature up to now, but also the greatest hysteresis specified by a Schottky-type excitation. The magnitude of the relative distortion (1/1) has been roughly estimated to be on the 2.0 · 10–3 order of magnitude, which is much larger than the predicted value obtained from a point charge approximation. The pecularities of this transition are discussed from the viewpoint that the general theory of a structural transformation, established convincingly at high temperatures could not be easily applied. 相似文献