The interaction of ubiquinone-3 with phospholipid membranes

AbstractThe effects of ubiquinone-3 (UQ) on dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) membrane were studied by surface monolayer, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and fluorescence techniques. DPPC and UQ are proved to be freely miscible in the mixed monolayer at an air/water interface, and to be partially miscible in bulk phase, i.e. bilayer and solid phase. There is a condensing interaction between UQ and DPPC in the UQ/DPPC mixed monolayers. The solubility of UQ in the DPPC is about 20 mole% and the solubility of DPPC in UQ is about 10 mole%. The membrane fluidity of DPPC was increased by the addition of UQ and the phase transition temperature was decreased

GA-based decision support system for multicriteria optimization

Proposes a multicriteria decision making (MCDM) method by using a genetic algorithm (GA). The system consists of three phases. In the first phase, a rough set of Pareto optimal solutions is obtained using Kohonen's self organizing map (SOM). In the second phase, the decision maker (DM) selects his preferred solutions among the obtained set, where the mechanism of GA is used with the DM's preference assisted by radial basis function network (RBFN). In the third phase, the DM can explore the solution space further for the final decision</p

The proposal of partial sharing for link-sharing method of buffer in NoC router

The memory is shared between multiple physical links by using the multi-port memory in the link sharing method of the wormhole routed network-on-chip architecture. By this link sharing method the communication performance is substantially improved with extra hardware cost. In this paper, we propose a partial sharing method of a memory by two physical links. It is shown that this limited capacity of memory sharing in this proposed partial sharing method significantly reduces the hardware cost with slight declination of hardware cost