The retinal interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM) occupies the space between the neural retina and the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE), two neuroectoderm-derived epithelia. While the IPM appears to be a major route by which photoreceptor cells receive vital metabolic factors, relatively little is known concerning its structure and function. The studies reported here describe the presence of specia...

Responses of low-frequency neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of anesthetized guinea pigs were recorded to interaural phase modulation (IPM) before, during, and after iontophoresis of bicuculline, an antagonist to the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA. Sensitivity to the direction of virtual motion resulting from IPM is an emergent property of neurons at the level of the IC. One model to ac...

The context-aware application’s main feature is that the program can adjust its behavior according to the context environment. In the traditional object-oriented model, behaviors related to the context may be separated through branching statement, thus greatly reducing the degree of adaptation to environmental changes. This paper, after analyzing the issue of programming context-aware applicati...

The interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM) fills the part of the eye referred to by ophthalmologists as the subretinal space. Located between the outer limiting membrane of the retina and the apical border of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), this unique matrix surrounds photoreceptor inner and outer segments projecting from the outer retinal surface. Structure–function activities of fundamental i...

In New Zealand, increasing levels of resistance in diamondback moth (DBM) to recommended synthetic pyrethroid and organophosphate insecticides were monitored for five years in vegetable Brassica crops until in 1997 they were associated with control failures in three regions. Subsequently, Crop & Food Research initiated a two-year IPM implementation programme with financial assistance from gover...

Primal-dual interior-point methods (IPMs) have shown their power in solving large classes of optimization problems. However, at present there is still a gap between the practical behavior of these algorithms and their theoretical worst-case complexity results, with respect to the strategies of updating the duality gap parameter in the algorithm. The so-called small-update IPMs enjoy the best kn...

INTRODUCTION In vivo pH imaging has been a field of interest for molecular imaging for many years. This is especially important for determining tumor acidity, an important driving force of tumor invasion and metastasis formation, but also in the process of apoptosis. METHODS 2-(4-[(123)I]iodophenethyl)-2-methylmalonic acid (IPMM), 2-(4-[(123)I]iodophenethyl)-malonic acid (IPM), 2-(4-[(123)I]i...

Rod and cone photoreceptors project from the outer retinal surface into a carbohydrate-rich interphotoreceptor matrix (IPM). Unique IPM glycoconjugates are distributed around rods and cones. Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) strongly decorates the rod matrix domains and weakly decorates the cone matrix domains. This study characterizes the major WGA-binding glycoprotein in the human IPM, which we ref...

This paper deals with the optimal control of interior permanent magnet synchronous machine (IPM) in the integrated starter-generator (ISG) application. IPM designed for flux-weakening operations are able to realise high performances. Nevertheless, the ISG environment imposes lots of constraints which must be taken into account in an appropriate control. After a presentation of machine design, I...

Polyurethane films have potential applications in medicine, especially for packaging implantable medical devices. Although polyether-urethanes have superior mechanical properties and are biocompatible, achieving water resistance is still a challenge. Polyether based polyurethanes with two different molecular weights (PTMO1000, PTMO2000) were prepared from 4,4’-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and p...