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... satiety or ghrelin secreted in the stomach during hunger) The system seems to be perfect to respond to signals of hunger and satiety, when to eat and when to stop eating However, paradoxically, ... insulin binding to its receptors in hepatocytes and adipocytes, respectively (Olefsky et al., 1975) Significant reduction in insulin receptor density was also observed in hepatocytes from rats chronically ... activity relative to the wild-type receptor, suggesting that phosphorylation of S226 is inhibitory to GR function (Rogatsky et al., 1998; Itoh et al., 2002) Thus, phosphorylation appears to provide...

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... frenulum, keratoses, angiomas and telangiectases PATIENTS AND METHODS The treatment with the 980nm Diode Laser was proposed to a group of 15 patients phototypes 1-4, according to Fitzpatrick ... most suitable tools for photocoagulating these small superficial lesions, allowing excellent results to be obtained painlessly, in a short time and without requiring the patients to suspend their ... invisible region: - I.R close to 755, 980, 1,064 nm (Alexandrite, Diode, Nd.-YAG) [Table 1] The microcrusts resulting from vascular photosclerosis only last a few days and are to be considered a normal...

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... bridge with the negatively-charged oxy‐ gen atom, and Glu222, which receives protons from the water molecules to cycle between the protonated and deprotonated states.The two coplanar aromatic rings ... conformation of the biosensor, which serves to increase the FRET efficiency from the donor to the acceptor (CFP to YFP in this case) [71] When used to study the signaling events in wound healing, ... When in range, excitation of the donor is propagated to the acceptor molecule through non-radiative photon transfer, and emission from the acceptor is observed State of the Art in Biosensors - General...

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Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... [15] In contrast to western speech recognition, topics specifying tonal languages or tone recognition have been deeply researched as seen in many papers e.g., [16] For text -to- speech synthesis, ... Thai, like Chinese, is a tonal language The tonal perception is important to the meaning of the speech The research currently being done in speech technology can be divided into major fields: (1) ... idiosyncrasy of Thai text and handling the tones interplaying with intonation are the topics that make the TTS algorithm for the Thai language differrent from others In the research, the first successful...

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... assigned to P, to C-instances assigned to some sense other than P order clues according to the value of the ratio to give a 'decision list' assign each instance to a sense according to the first ... the time available to the lexicographer, as well as the complexity of the sense division to be made The act of assigning senses to patterns may very well lead the lexicographer to discover fresh, ... MONEY, CLOUD and RIVER for three senses of bank This inventory may be drawn from the user's knowledge, from a perusal of the word sketch, or from a pre-existing dictionary entry As Table shows, and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... virtually unchanged The improvements tend to be small, however, between 0.5 to performance points We attribute this to two factors First, as noted above, although far from perfect, NE taggers generally ... R ECONCILE coreference resolution platform (Stoyanov et al., 2009) to configure a coreference resolver that performs comparably to state-of-the-art systems (when evaluated on the MUC and ACE data ... automatically identifies the CEs, so the scoring algorithm requires a mapping between extracted and annotated CEs We will use the term twin(ce) to refer to the unique annotated/extracted CE to...

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... vectors in W based on v: order from smallest to largest v (2) ordering colors with same v: sort based on s: from largest to smallest s (3) ordering colors with same v and s: from smallest to ... vector filtering operators derived in last 10 years Important class of noise filtering operators for color images: rank vector filters Open issues: develop adaptive filters for color images, to ... Human eye Photoreceptors: Rodes and cones Reflected light Object’s reflectance SSIP’08 – Vienna, Austria Color image processing & analysis Human perception of color images (3) • Photoreceptors in...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 13:36

... rescaled to a fixed size The resulting database for still color face images contains 17 different individuals and 2106 face images in total The number of faces per subject varies from 48 to 307 ... as in experiment 1, the number varying from to 15 images per subject We used intensity images as input The results are shown in figure 4, and the results from experiment are also added for comparison ... faces from one to fifteen images per subject Each time the gallery images are chosen randomly; and we repeat the experiments five times and take the average to arrive at the final recognition result...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 09:57

... proposed to tackle the problem of prototype optimization (Pękalska et al., 2006) A fundamental dichotomy in prototype optimization divides the approaches into prototype generation and prototype ... fixed number M of prototypes pi towards to or away from the training points xi The set of generated prototypes is also called codebook Prototypes are iteratively updated according to a learning rule ... simplest clustering algorithm Applied to prototype optimization, this technique aims to find a subset of prototypes generated from the original ones New prototypes are the means of a number of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 09:59

... the photosensitiser and triplet oxygen (3O2), resulting in the production of cytotoxic singlet oxygen (1O2) Singlet oxygen is accepted as the main mediator of photocytotoxicity in photodynamic ... expressed in Daltons (D) A Dalton, also known as an atomic mass unit, is roughly the mass of a single proton or neutron In relation to other units of mass, a Dalton is one-thousandth of a zeptogram, ... bioprobe is injected into the blood circulation, where the antibodies detect the unique chemical signature of cancer cells and bind to their membrane receptors Triton BioSystems anticipates that...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 14:35

... Monitor VRAE Five Gas Surveyor MiniRAE 2000 Portable VOC Monitor (PID) UltraRAE Specific Compound Monitor CDRAE Corona Discharge VOC Monitor ToxiRAE PLUS PID Monitor ToxiRAE PLUS Single Gas Monitors ... Communication: Download data to PC and upload monitor setup from PC through RS-232 link to serial port on PC Temperature: -20o to 45oC (-4o to 113o F) Humidity: % to 95% relative humidity (non-condensing) ... monitor is configured as a Datalog 2-8 OPERATION OF VRAE monitor monitor Without the letter “D”, it is a Non-Datalog The user can upgrade a Non-Datalog monitor to a Datalog monitor Call the factory...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 14:35

... of this introductory part is to present an overall view of what MCDA is today In Section 1, I will attempt to bring answers to questions such as: what is it reasonable to expect from MCDA? Why ... topics and asked well known researchers to present them We encouraged the authors to cooperate with the aim to present different perspectives if topics had some overlap We asked the authors to ... 332 Comparisons according to volume 9.1 359 9.2 To choose the best hospice plan, one constructs a hierarchy modeling the benefits to the patient, to the institution, and to society This is the benefits...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 09:58

... every organ or tissue to target, since these isolates are ideally suited to development into human gene therapy vectors due to their diverse tissue tropisms and potential to evade preexisting ... features that distinguish it from many other viral vector systems, such as retro/lentiviral and adenoviral vectors, and turn it into a very attractive tool for gene therapy These features, as mentioned ... of double-stranded DNA vectors, but this results in further reduction in the size capacity of transgene insertion, as one has to incorporate the gene twice into the vector (in its sense and antisense...

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... should be able to withstand torques of similar magnitude to maximum joint torque A torque of higher magnitude on the device would require stronger transmission and would therefore lead to an increase ... generator, the gear ratio, and the effective electrical load To improve the amount of energy that can be harvested, there is a need to match the angular and torque curves of the generator to replace ... attaching a toothed rack to the load plate, which (when moving up and down during walking) meshes with a pinion gear mounted on a geared dc motor, functioning as a generator The motor is rigidly...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... every organ or tissue to target, since these isolates are ideally suited to development into human gene therapy vectors due to their diverse tissue tropisms and potential to evade preexisting ... features that distinguish it from many other viral vector systems, such as retro/lentiviral and adenoviral vectors, and turn it into a very attractive tool for gene therapy These features, as mentioned ... of double-stranded DNA vectors, but this results in further reduction in the size capacity of transgene insertion, as one has to incorporate the gene twice into the vector (in its sense and antisense...

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