Loss of parkin function is a predominant cause of familial Parkinsonism. Emerging evidence also suggests that parkin expression variability may confer a risk for sporadic Parkinson disease. We have recently demonstrated that a wide variety of Parkinson disease-linked stressors, including dopamine (DA), induce parkin solubility alterations and promote its aggregation within the cell, a phenomeno...

In this research, dairy cattle, located in Konya in Central Anatolian Region and its surrounding and had respiratory system symptoms, were investigated for the seroprevalence Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (BVDV), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV), Parainfluenza Virus type 3 (PI-3) and Bovine Adenovirus type 3 (BAV-3). For that purpose, 5800 animals...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to evaluate local and national trends in immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) using the national English administrative records, Hospital Episode Statistics. Our prediction was an increase in implant-only and free flap procedures and a decline in latissimus flap reconstructions. METHODS Data from an oncoplastic center were interrogated to derive numbers of implant-...

INTRODUCTION Glycaemic index (GI) reflects the blood glucose response after ingestion of a 50 g digestible carbohydrate portion. Many factors affect the GI, including degree of starch gelatinization. METHODS The objective was to determine the GI and the effect of different cooking methods on GI of a Pakistani basmati rice (PBR) and an Indian basmati rice (IBR) frequently purchased by Sri Lank...

We investigated the presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) in the serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) of 21 cystic fibrosis (CF), 7 idiopathic bronchiectasis (IBR), and 11 control children and the relation between ANCA and any bacteria grown in BALF. Six of the CFs, but none of the IBRs or controls had positive serum cytoplasmic or perinuclear-ANCA (c-ANCA, p-ANCA)....

Humans are characterized by an especially highly developed ability to use instructions to prepare toward upcoming events; yet, it is unclear just how powerful instructions can be. Although prior work provides evidence that instructions can be sufficiently powerful to proactively program working memory to execute stimulus-response (S-R) translations, in a reflexlike fashion (intention-based refl...

Multisensor applications have recently inspired important research projects to utilize existing infrastructure and exploit spatiotemporal information. This dissertation focuses on two multisensor applications: image-based rendering and multichannel sampling. Although many image-based rendering (IBR) algorithms have been proposed, few of them possess rigorous interpolation processes. We propose ...

The surgical option which should be reserved for patients with BRCA1/2 mutation and breast cancer diagnosis is still debated. Several aspects should be considered before the surgical decision-making: the risk of ipsilateral breast recurrence (IBR), the risk of contralateral breast cancer (CBC), the potential survival benefit of prophylactic mastectomy, and the possible risk factors that could e...

A Binary Volumetric Octree (BVO) is a volume array with binary opacity voxels, represented as octree. The BVO structure allows to stores not the complete object volume, but only the surface voxels. The new approach to Image Based Rendering (IBR), using this representation, makes it possible to use single data structure for fast, occlusion-compatible hierarchical warping, splattingbased renderin...

The recent advances in Image Based Rendering (IBR) has pioneered a new technology, free view point television, in which TV-viewers select freely the viewing position and angle by the application of IBR on the transmitted multi-view video. In this paper, exhaustive tests were carried out to conclude to the best possible free-view point TV watermarking evaluated on arbitrary views. The watermark ...