Fuel identification by neural network analysis of the response of vapor-sensitive sensor arrays.

Neural network analysis of the response of an array of vapor-sensitive detectors has been used to identify six different types of aviation fuel. The data set included 96 samples of JP-4, JP-5, JP-7, JP-8, JetA, and aviation gasoline (AvGas). A sample of each neat fuel was injected into a continuous stream of breathing air through an injection port from a gas chromatograph. The aspirated sample was then swept from the injection port to the chamber without separation. In the chamber, the sample was exposed to an array of eight vapor-sensitive detectors. The analog output of each detector was digitized and stored while the sample was swept into and through the chamber. The response of each detector was then averaged and stored as the final response or pattern of each sample. It was clear from a visual inspection of each of the radar plots that there was a characteristic pattern in the response of the array to five of the six different fuel types. This was confirmed using neural network analysis to study the entire data set. A two-step procedure was developed to separate the patterns of all six fuel tyes into their respective classes. In the first step, fuels were separated into one of five groups: JP-4, JP-5, JP-7, AvGas, or a combined JP-8/JetA group. In the second step, the fuels in the combined group were separated into either JP-8 or JetA groups.

Association of tyrosine and serine kinases with the B cell surface antigen CD20. Induction via CD20 of tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of phospholipase C-gamma 1 and PLC phospholipase C-gamma 2.

CD20 is a B cell-specific 35/37 kDa integral membrane protein which modulates proliferation and differentiation of normal resting B cells when stimulated by CD20 antibodies. An increase in c-myc mRNA levels occurs within hours after treatment of resting B cells with CD20 mAb; however earlier events in the CD20 signal transduction pathway have not been described. Here we demonstrate that anti-CD20 mediated induction of c-myc mRNA is inhibited by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor herbimycin A, that CD20 is associated with both tyrosine and serine kinase activity, and that tyrosine phosphorylation of multiple substrates is induced within minutes upon ligation of CD20 with mAb. Association of the tyrosine and serine kinases with CD20 was stable in lysis buffer containing 1% NP40 and 0.25% deoxycholate. Under the same conditions, antibodies against several other B cell surface molecules failed to co-precipitate tyrosine kinase activity, however, a serine kinase was precipitated by the anti-CD19 mAb, B43. Both phospholipase C-gamma 1 and -gamma 2 were phosphorylated on tyrosine after cross-linking of CD20-bound mAb, and this correlated with increases in intracellular calcium that were partially resistant to depletion of extracellular calcium with EGTA. The pattern of tyrosine phosphorylated proteins observed in whole cell lysates after anti-CD20 cross-linking appeared to be a subset of those induced by anti-IgM; however, differences in phosphoproteins induced by anti-IgM and anti-CD20 were detected using a fynSH2-fusion protein.