advances in pathogenesis and treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage experimental

... down-regulation of secretagogin, a protein expressed in neuroendocrine cells of the colonic crypts in carcinomatous mucosal cells involved in calcium-binding The study concluded that expression of secretagogin ... protein involved in regulation of the cell cycle) The Anexin family of proteins have been investigated before for their role in carcinogenesis There have already been studies of their expression in ... role in carcinogenesis [56-59] and it has also recently been implicated in irinotecan resistance in CRC [60] However in these cell lines such results are only stepping stones in the formation of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 04:20

... main sources of infection in a community [5,6] Delays in the diagnosis and start of effective treatment of tuberculosis patients result in a prolonged period of infectivity in the community and ... treatment diagnosis interval treatment interval admission to hospital diagnosis initiation of treatment Table shows the distribution of the diagnosis intervals and initiation of treatment intervals with ... of treatment in our patients These delays included patient delay, institutional delay, diagnostic delay, and delay in the treatment Both patient and institutional delays result in increased infection...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... deletion or loss -of- function mutations in the survival of motor neuron (SMN) protein results in SMA [12] Gemin and Gemin are shared components of SMN and miRNAcontaining ribonucleoprotein particles ... up-regulated and were down-regulated It was determined that increased expression of miR-181a, miR-181b, and miR-213 in OVCA cell lines results in resistance to doxorubicin and gemcitabine and increased ... overexpression of miR-375 resulted in suppressed glucose-stimulated insulin secretion and its inhibition resulted in enhanced insulin secretion Myotrophin, a protein that has a role in exocytosis,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... pathogenesis of human and experimental colitis, included leukotriene B4 and TNF-α In addition prostaglandins increase the secretion of water and electrolytes into the intestinal tract and in the acute ... effects of inhibition of Fig Pathogenesis of NSAID-induced intestinal lesions (Taken from Thiéfin & Beaugerie, 2005) The Role of COX-2 Inhibitors on Experimental Colitis prostaglandin synthesis, ... UC, in a region containing laminin beta (LAMB1), which encodes a subunit of the laminin family of proteins Laminins are extracellular matrix glycoproteins that serve as major constituents of the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 13:20

... fimbriae and lysine-specific cysteine proteinase gingipain K in expression of interleukin-8 and monocyte chemoattractant protein in Porphyromonas gingivalis-infected endothelial cells Infect Immun ... colonization in gingival crevices, the invasion into gingival tissues, and the induction of inflammatory responses and alveolar bone losses Colonization in gingival crevices The colonization of P gingivalis ... observed in the Netherlands (Van Winkelhoff & Boutaga, 2005), in Finland (Asikainen & Chen, 1999), and in the research of 78 American subjects (Asikainen et al., 1996) In the latter reports, since...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... Medicine, Ministry of Education, Harbin, China Introductory Chapter Haixue Kuang Key Laboratory of Chinese Materia Medica (Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine), Ministry of Education, Harbin ... thousand years, is a complete ancient medical system that takes a deep understanding of the laws and patterns of nature and applies them Recent Advances in Theories and Practice of Chinese Medicine ... diagnosis in Chinese medicine were developed and tested in the last few decades and are promising tools in the clinical environment This chapter introduces the traditional methods of diagnosis in Chinese...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... Printed in India A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Advances in Theory and Applications of ... presenting diverse range of current research ideas and applications, providing an insight into the current research trends and advances in the field of stereo vision The book presents wide range of innovative ... outliers, i.e the incorrectly matched points usually due to errors in feature detection and/ or in matching Finally the evolution of the 2 Stereo Vision Advances in Theory and Applications of Stereo Vision...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... coefficients in subspaces of Dsj and As and linearly independent, as in Figures and 2, and their direct sum produces the subspace As−1 (11) In classical signal processing terms, subspace As contains lower ... define that scaling and wavelet functions can be represented by the combination of scaled and translated version of the scaling function Where ch and wh represents the scaling and wavelet coefficients ... availability and simultaneous involvement of a number of compactly supported bases for scale-space representation of signals, rather than in nitely long sine and cosine bases as in Fourier analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... correspondences in a 1D search since this constraint establishes the following: the images of a stereo pair are formed by pairs of lines, called epipolar lines, such that points in a given epipolar line in ... centers of the two cameras and any point in the space The intersections of these planes with the image planes define the pairs of epipolar lines (Fig 5) Pairs of epipolar lines can be found using ... axes X and Y orthogonal and, also orthogonal to Z The origin of coordinates in the image plane will be the intersection of the Z axes with this plane and the axes u and v in the image plane will...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... of fuzziness instead of ultrafuzziness and without initialization of α Fig.4 shows an example of the main segmentation process using type-2 fuzzy sets and fuzzy information theory The begin and ... most common measure of image fuzziness is the linear index of fuzziness Tizhoosh (Tizhoosh, 2005) (Tizhoosh, 2008) has defined a linear index measure of fuzziness as follows Fuzziness : γ ( A) = ... results of fuzziness and ultrafuzziness are also showed There are two local maximum points in fuzziness and five local maximum points in ultrafuzziness So, only two objects are extracted using type-1...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... point ( xi , yi ) in the image-1 and following the epipolar line, we obtain a list of m potential corresponding candidates Combining Stereovision Matching Constraints for Solving the Correspondence ... yi1) and (xi2, yi2) in image-1 (left) and image-2 (right) respectively in coordinates of the image system; a1 and a2 are the angles of incidence of the rays from P; y12 is the baseline measuring ... coefficients 98 Advances in Theory and Applications of Stereo Vision involved in the linear combination are computed by testing reliable correspondences in a set of experiments carried out during a previous...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... coding because problems exists in binary encoding, like Hamming Cilff, computing precision and decoding complexity The initial parameters of camera calibration are obtained from the methods introduced ... like matching between a training image and a test image It is, however, especially interested in this chapter that models are developed integrating the information across multiple training images ... is split into bins with θ in bins, resulting in a descriptor of dimension 36 Fig.6, from Belongie et al (2002), shows an example of shape context computation and matching Given a point pi on...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... example of translation Figure 7(a) shows a cylindroid which is expressed by an ellipse (center of gravity, inclination of a principal axis, length of principal axis and length of minor axis) and ... detection and object extraction Combining the neighboring homogeneous points by clustering and labeling, the region is decided 3D structure of the scene is recognized using 3D information of the ... extracted from the training sets Table summarizes the number of images in the training set of each object, along with the number of patches extracted from each training set for forming the object’s...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... Measurement of Objects in Liquid and Estimation of Refractive Index of Liquid by Using Images of Water Surface 195 because of noises and quantization artifacts Consequently, we select the midpoint of ... calculated from the coordinate value of the corresponding point, and vector N can be calibrated in advance of the measurement as described above 194 Advances in Theory and Applications of Stereo Vision ... refractive index of liquid n3 can be obtained by using Snell's law n3 = n1 sin θ1 sin θ (10) In this way, we can estimate refractive index of unknown liquid n3 from the image of water surface, and measure...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... ⋅ sinβ ⋅ sinα-sinφ ⋅ cosα cosφ ⋅ sinβ ⋅ cosα+sinφ ⋅ sinα ⎤ ⎡ x ⎤ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ sinφ ⋅ cosβ sinφ ⋅ sinβ ⋅ sinα+cosφ ⋅ cosα sinφ ⋅ sinβ ⋅ cosα-cosφ ⋅ sinα ⎥ × ⎢ y+dGPS ⎥ ⎢ -sinβ ⎥ ⎢ z ⎥ cosβ ⋅ sinα ... those points that carry useful information, reducing considerably the total amount of points while maintaining the basic information Another way of decreasing the size of file maps is by enlarging ... working off-line is the possibility of removing corrupted data that passed the initial filters The benefit of working on-line is the availability of the map right after the end of the mapping...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... time) In our study, there were experts and 26 beginners In this figure, it can be seen that the graphs of experts and beginners show nearly the same shape However, the tasking time of the beginners ... than that of the experts The difference in tasking time between the beginners and the experts is the smallest in the case of “CG”, indicating that CG presentation is most effective for beginners ... are of great interest and still a challenge for researchers and industrial entrepreneurs The concepts of mobile robotics in indoor and outdoor environment has already exploded on the market in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... uncertainty circles in the left and in the right images The corresponding 3D uncertainty is a solid intersection of the two cones obtained projecting the two circles As direct extension of the ... summarized in Fig 19 in which the apparent motion of the feature points F in the image space (corresponding to the landmarks P in the 3D space with respect to the vehicle) in two subsequent instants of ... N=5), representing the three robot DoFs, the three dimensional coordinates of the landmarks, and the camera separation S Some experimental results are shown in Fig 17 in which the five landmarks locations...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... Number of frames Mean of number of declivity associations Mean computation time of edge extraction in a line of image (in ms) Mean computation time of matching in a line of image (in ms) Processor ... providing real-time information for visual guidance in the context of tasks such as terrain and gorge following, obstacle detection and avoidance, and landing 3.2 Hardware and implementation In ... Number of point of 3D edges of obstacle using color process compared to number of point of 3D edges of obstacle using grayscale process obtained from MARS/PRESCAN database which is composed of 326...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22

... Queensland Brain Institute & School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australia Finally, ... terrain and gorge following, obstacle detection and avoidance, and take-off and landing Additionally, it was shown that this stereo vision system is capable of accurately measuring and representing ... between the start of each autonomous segment and the aircraft first passing within one metre of the altitude setpoint; and the average altitude of the aircraft during the remainder of each autonomous...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:22