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The hypothalamus is a small region of the brain in the ventral aspect of the diencephalon. In the adult human, it is about 2.5 cm in length and weighs about 4 g. Ventromedi-ally, it surrounds the third ventricle and is continuous with the infundibular stalk of the pituitary (hypophysis). This cone-shaped region of the hypothalamus, the median eminence, consists mainly of axonal fibers from hypothalamic neurons, which either terminate in the median eminence or continue down into the posterior lobe of the pituitary, and it is perfused by a capillary network (primary plexus) derived from the carotid arteries. Blood from the primary plexus is transported by portal vessels (hypophyseal portal vessels) to another capillary network (secondary plexus) in the anterior lobe of the pituitary (adenohypophysis) (Figure 31-1). 

Nlng Q and T J Sejnowsld 1988. Predicting the Secondary Structure of Globular Proteins Using Neural Network Models. Journal of Molecular Biology 202 865-888. 

VR, the inputs correspond to the value of the various parameters and the network is 1 to reproduce the experimentally determined activities. Once trained, the activity of mown compound can be predicted by presenting the network with the relevant eter values. Some encouraging results have been reported using neural networks, have also been applied to a wide range of problems such as predicting the secondary ire of proteins and interpreting NMR spectra. One of their main advantages is an to incorporate non-linearity into the model. However, they do present some problems Hack et al. 1994] for example, if there are too few data values then the network may memorise the data and have no predictive capability. Moreover, it is difficult to the importance of the individual terms, and the networks can require a considerable 1 train. 

The three line currents through the secondary of the three CTs, as shown in Figure 12.30(b). are fed to a sequence filler network which separates the positive and negative sequence components of the line currents drawn by the motor. These currents are then fed to separate... 

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A common use of statistics in structural biology is as a tool for deriving predictive distributions of strucmral parameters based on sequence. The simplest of these are predictions of secondary structure and side-chain surface accessibility. Various algorithms that can learn from data and then make predictions have been used to predict secondary structure and surface accessibility, including ordinary statistics [79], infonnation theory [80], neural networks [81-86], and Bayesian methods [87-89]. A disadvantage of some neural network methods is that the parameters of the network sometimes have no physical meaning and are difficult to interpret. 

N Qian, TJ Sejnowski. Predicting the secondary structure of globular proteins using neural network models. J Mol Biol 202 865-884, 1988. 

LH Holley, M Karplus. Protein secondary structure prediction with a neural network. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 86 152-156, 1989. 

B Rost, C Sander. Combining evolutionary information and neural networks to predict protein secondary stiaicture. Proteins Stiaict Fund Genet 19 55-72, 1994. 

AL Delcher, S Kasif, HR Goldberg, WH Hsu. Protein secondary structure modelling with probabilistic networks. Intelligent Systems m Molecular Biology 1 109-117, 1993. 

JM Chandoma, M Karplus. Neural networks for secondary structure and structural class predictions. Protein Sci 4 275-285, 1995. 

JM Chandoma, M Karplus. The importance of larger data sets for protein secondary structure prediction with neural networks. Protein Sci 5 768-774, 1996. 

In practice the picture can take on a further degree of complexity if there is chain branching. This is where a secondary chain initiates from some point along the main chain as shown in Fig. A.6. In rubbers and thermosetting materials these branches link up to other chains to form a three dimensional network. 

Proline is the only amino acid in Table 27.1 that is a secondary amine, and its presence in a peptide chain introduces an amide nitrogen that has no hydrogen available for hydrogen bonding. This disrupts the network of hydrogen bonds and divides the peptide into two separate regions of a helix. The presence of proline is often associated with a bend in the peptide chain. 

The extensive range of insulation types and the numerous forms in which they are manufactured ensures that any listing can never be comprehensive. It becomes even more so when one acknowledges the fact that within the insulation industry there is a secondary network of fabricators and laminators who will take manufacturers basic products and cut, shape, mold, laminate and enclose them to almost any requirement. The following gives the basic physical forms and some of the uses to which insulation materials are put. 

It should be noted that for polymerization-modified perlite the strength parameters of the composition algo go up with the increasing initial particle size. [164]. In some studies it has been shown that the filler modification effect on the mechanical properties of composites is maximum when only a portion of the filler surface is given the polymerophilic properties (cf., e.g. [166-168]). The reason lies in the specifics of the boundary layer formation in the polymer-filler systems and formation of a secondary filler network . In principle, the patchy polymerophilic behavior of the filler in relation to the matrix should also have place in the failing polymerization-modified perlite. 

The authors of [203-205] proposed a theory according to which the normal stresses of the matrix and filler may differ only under one condition i.e. the filler content by volume is above some critical value — when its concentration is sufficient to generate the so-called secondary network. In accordance with Privalko and Lipatov s classification [102], this concentration corresponds to the lower boundary of the high-filled class of composites. 

From the results obtained in [344] it follows that the composites with PMF are more likely to develop a secondary network and a considerable deformation is needed to break it. As the authors of [344] note, at low frequencies the Gr(to) relationship for Specimens Nos. 4 and 5 (Table 16) has the form typical of a viscoelastic body. This kind of behavior has been attributed to the formation of the spatial skeleton of filler owing to the overlap of the thin boundary layers of polymer. The authors also note that only plastic deformations occurred in shear flow. 

Under stress conditions similar to those arising in the extrusion or pressure molding processes, the activation energy for viscous flow of systems with PMF is little different from that for the matrix [163, 164,209, 344, 345], This means that the secondary network of the materia has been destroyed [69]. 

This branch of bioinformatics is concerned with computational approaches to predict and analyse the spatial structure of proteins and nucleic acids. Whereas in many cases the primary sequence uniquely specifies the 3D structure, the specific rules are not well understood, and the protein folding problem remains largely unsolved. Some aspects of protein structure can already be predicted from amino acid content. Secondary structure can be deduced from the primary sequence with statistics or neural networks. When using a multiple sequence alignment, secondary structure can be predicted with an accuracy above 70%. 

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