... contact Direct heating PCR chips have heaters as well as the temperature sensors integrated with the device A disadvantage associated with the contact heating is that a certain amount of thermal ... the annealing temperature as PCR cycling progresses Strand displacement amplification (SDA) Isothermal amplification reaction Nucleic acid sequence –based amplification amplification (NASBA) Rolling ... waterborne pathogens are disease-causing organism that live in water, and can be classified as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, or algae There are hundreds of different pathogens that can be transmitted...
... investigate the long-term efficacy of facet debridement for the treatment of chronic back pain originating in the facet joint MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient enrollment and evaluation All patients treated ... were diagnosed with facet pain Primary outcome measure was percent change in facet-related pain as measured by Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score at final follow-up visit Secondary outcome was change ... 71% of 21 patients at one year follow-up with laser denervation of the dorsal facet capsule Li et al treated patients with RFA of the dorsal rami Three patients had durable response after to 16...
... glaciation The paleo lagoonal clayish mud facies; paleo shallow marine clayish muddy sand facies; paleo tidal flat sand, gravelly sand facies are formed and associated together in the first Flandrian ... Nguyen Thanh Lan, Tran Thi Thanh Nhan, Pham Nguyen Ha Vu lagoonal clayish mud, peat facies; Paleo shallow sea clayish mud, silty sand facies; Paleo sandy bars sand, gravelly sand facies associated ... Nguyen Ha Vu The selection of scale of the map is very important for interpretation and performance of geological formation on the map Stratigraphical boundaries in Quaternary are divided by comparison...
... Child, Catherine d’Arcangues, Alexandrine Dazogbo, Esperanza Delgado, Anna de Guzman, Galanne Deressa, Barbara de Zalduondo, Dudu Dlamini, Leticia Doamekpor, Akua Ed-Nignpense, Peter Fajans, Charles ... ToOl Acronyms AIDSAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome ANCAntenatal care ARTAntiretroviral therapy BCC Behaviour change communication CSOCivil society organizations FBOFaith-based organizations ... its application This rapid assessment tool amalgamates a number of related tools that have been developed and pilot tested by a range of organizations It can be used in whole or in part to examine...
... names, name normalization is a possible approach Rules can be set up to transform syntactic as well as morphological variations of names into a normalized name form Basic transformations can be achieved ... general, a chemical name-to-structure system aims at providing the chemical structures in a standard representation format, rather than in a graph notation In our system, the SMILES generation ... CompLife, pages 107–118 Kirill Degtyarenko, Paula de Matos, Marcus Ennis, Janna Hastings, Martin Zbinden, Alan McNaught, Rafael Alc´ ntara, Michael Darsow, Micka¨ l Guedj, a e and Michael Ashburner...
... carlsbergensis, no data available for E coli; b value for Lupinus luteus and bovine, no data available for E coli; c value for Paracoccus denitrificans, no data available for E coli d value for Bacillus subtilis, ... data available for E coli; e no data available, assigned to group II based on side-chain rigidity; f no data available, assigned to group III based on similarity with Glu and Met 4086 K Ozawa ... synthetase for sitespecific incorporation of an unnatural amino acid into proteins in eukaryotic translation and its application in a wheat germ cell-free system Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99, 9715–9720...
... automated real-time sentiment analysis of this user-generated data can provide fast indications of changes in opinion, showing for example how an audience reacts to particular candidate’s statements ... to our annotation The statistical classifier we use for sentiment analysis is a naïve Bayes model on unigram features Our features are calculated from tokenization of the tweets that attempts ... Real-time Twitter data Preprocessing e.g.,Tokenization Recorded data Match Tweet to Candidate Sentiment Model Aggregate by Candidate Visualization Online Human Annotation Throttle Figure The system...
... of scattering and absorption will be compensated Thus, an amount of gamma-rays scattered from the material in order to crystal of the detector are not changed and it will create a saturated region ... threshold value determined as in Table 1, the count rate will not be increased further, namely as the saturated thicknesse for each material (heavier material will give smaller saturated thickness) ... obtain calculation data from MCNP The calculation results from MCNP and experimentally measured ones are compared together [4] From the data, graphs and fitted equations for different material...
... the urban area of Santiago This area was chosen in a first step because that is the area for which data is available In a second phase, for photochemical simulations probably a larger domain would ... them with an area of km² After this, it is necessary to provide three kinds of data for each grid: static data (elevation), slowly varying data (land use) and rapid varying data (emission and meteorological ... considering and the big mountains around the city, because they will certainly affect the calculations, at least when calculating the meteorological fields The static data and the slowly varying data were...
... teams: One team collects data from field research, a second processes and annotates the raw data and a third team performs statistical analysis In this example every group has the need to share ... German and Latin In this module, not only co-occurrence data, social and terminological ontologies but also social tagging enhanced data are available fora given input token Christiane Fellbaum, ... information is stored in a transactional Relational Database (using MySQL4 ) The underlying data model is described later in more detail Another important component is the Storage Handler: Based...
... measurement Automating the fiber diameter measurement and eliminating the use of the human operator is a natural solution to this problem Image Analysis An image analysis based method was proposed ... method for diameter measurement The method is automated, accurate, and much faster than manual method and has the capability of being used as an on-line technique for quality control References A. K ... structural characteristics such as fiber diameter and orientation distribution and web density to be taken into consideration Since these characteristics of simulated images are known exactly, one can...
... measurement Automating the fiber diameter measurement and eliminating the use of the human operator is a natural solution to this problem Image Analysis An image analysis based method was proposed ... method for diameter measurement The method is automated, accurate, and much faster than manual method and has the capability of being used as an on-line technique for quality control References A. K ... structural characteristics such as fiber diameter and orientation distribution and web density to be taken into consideration Since these characteristics of simulated images are known exactly, one can...
... data j j length for Rq estimation If yq [n] is a stationary and ergodic process, the sample average equals time average, and the sample covariance matrix estimator leads to an accurate estimate ... studied separately for more than fifty years In recent decades, a joint consideration of beamforming and cyclostationarity (i.e., beamforming for cyclostationary signals) attracted certain attention ... covariance matrix estimator exploits the cyclostationarity to counter the nonstationarity problem A detailed theoretical analysis shows that, in most practical situations, the cyclostationarity...
... Data ram Clock (a) Read in process w1 in Output process Decorrelation process w1 out Data ram 16 DEC Data ram NORM Data ram 16 CMP Counter Counter MUL w2 in ADD Counter Data ram Data ram 16 Clock ... Pilchard reconfigurable computing platform that uses the DIMM RAM slot as an interface that is compatible with PC133 standard [18], thereby achieving very high data transfer rate The Pilchard board ... of nongaussianity since Gaussian variable has the largest entropy among all random variables of equal variance [16] Because it is difficult to calculate negentropy, an approximation is usually given...
... units are realized by using combinational logic, meaning that all calculation operations are performed in parallel The schematic diagram of its FPGA implementation is given in Figure 12 As seen, ... SUB ParADD1 Datab[] Result[] LPM ADD SUB Dataa[] OutREG Data[] LPM DFF Cout Result[] LPM ADD SUB (Parallel adders) ParADD1 a1 [19 0] a1 [19 18] GND LPM CLSHIFT a1 [17 0] Data[] Result[] Distance[] ... on how to change states Each state specifies a set of outputs that are asserted or deasserted when the machine is in that particular state The labels on the arc are conditions that are tested to...
... of scattering and absorption will be compensated Thus, an amount of gamma-rays scattered from the material in order to crystal of the detector are not changed and it will create a saturated region ... threshold value determined as in Table 1, the count rate will not be increased further, namely as the saturated thicknesse for each material (heavier material will give smaller saturated thickness) ... obtain calculation data from MCNP The calculation results from MCNP and experimentally measured ones are compared together [4] From the data, graphs and fitted equations for different material...
... growth and ramification parameters Table I shows the final data structure of the simplified example from Fig Discussion This new data ;acquisition system allows a quantitative analysis of root architecture ... numerical parameters from a simulation of root architecture fora mo old oak seedling = = In order to facilitate the root characteristics, a computation of final data storage structure is created ... records are completed with automatically computed information about the segment position in the branching system hierarchy Coordinates and ’structural’ information are stored in the data storage...
... physical examination and appropriate laboratory tests are obtained to ensure that patients are diagnostically eligible Patient recruitment started in March 2010 All Site Principal Investigators ... specific rating scales [19,29] In addition, a separate team of independent raters trained to reliability will randomly evaluate several of the tapes from early, middle, and late therapy phase of each ... screening evaluation as well as after 20 and 48 weeks of treatment Sociodemographic data include sex, age, nationality, marital status, education, occupation, measure of household income, and employment...
... 5'TTGCAACTCCAAGTGCTACG-3' and 5'-GCTCGAAGGAGTTCCACAAG-3' for GI, 5'-ACTGGTGGTGGATCAAGAGG-3' and 5'-GAATTAGGGAACAGCCACGA-3' for CO, 5'-CTGGAACAACCTTTGGCA AT- 3' and 5'-TACACTGTTTGCCTGCCAAG-3' for ... 5'-CGAAAGCTTCCTCCTGGTTA-3' and 5'-GAGTTTTGCCCCTCACCATA-3' for SOC1, 5'-GATTCCACGAGTTTGGGAGA-3' and 5'-CCTTAGCCATTGGGAGATCA-3' for TOC1, 5'-GCGTTGCCTCCTAATGGTAA-3' and 5'ACCCTCCAACTCCCTGTACC-3' for ... 5'ACCCTCCAACTCCCTGTACC-3' for HAP 3A, 5'TGCTTTTTCATCGACACTGC-3' and 5'-CCATATGTGTCCGCAAAATG-3' for At2 g32170, 5'-CTCTCCCGCTATGTATGTCGCCA-3' and 5'-GTGAGACACACCATCACCAG3' for ACT2 Authors' contributions MG carried out...
... specimen preparation is considered 0.5 automated 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 manual 0.4 0.5 Figure Correlation between manual and automated analysis Correlation between manual and automated analysis ... regions at large magnification (10x-objective) Detailed images Analysis of detailed images • Segmentation of transformed cells • Segmentation of potential haustoria • Classification of potential haustoria ... and area AFora given object, both features are related nonlinearly by A ~ P2 Hence, it can help a linear classifier to adapt to this feature vector when the object area is incorporated as A...