The critical maturation time of central otolith neurons in processing spatial orientations was examined in Sprague-Dawley rats. With the use of immuno-hybridization histochemical methods, we observed c-fos expression in vestibular nuclear neurons responding to transverse movement on the horizontal plane as early as P7 and those to antero-posterior stimulation as early as P9. In the inferior oli...

We present HST WFPC2 images of Stephan’s Quintet which encompass three interacting galaxies and their associated tidal features. These deep, three-color (B,V, I) images indicate recent, massive stellar system formation in various regions within the compact group environment. We have identified star cluster candidates (SCC) both within the interacting galaxies and in the tidal debris. We compare...

background: rh (rhesus) is a highly complex blood group system in man deeply rooted in transfusion medicine. isolation of rhd from cord blod, cloning and expression of recombinant rhd antigen in bacterial expression system was the aim of this study. methods: total rnas were extracted from cord blood (o + ).  the quality of rna was determined by electrophoresis. in or­der to obtain coding sequen...

Data from 350 herds enrolled in the Norwegian Dairy Herd Recording System (NDHRS) were used to investigate the associations between the first two cow-milk somatic cell counts (SCC) test-days' results after calving or the three last SCC test-days prior to drying off in the first lactation and the hazard ratio (HR) of clinical mastitis (CM) during the remaining first or the subsequent second lact...

This paper presents BDDT-SCC, a task-parallel runtime system for non cache-coherent multicore processors, implemented for the Intel Single-Chip Cloud Computer. The BDDT-SCC runtime includes a dynamic dependence analysis and automatic synchronization, and executes OpenMP-Ss tasks on a non cache-coherent architecture. We design a runtime that uses fast on-chip intercore communication with small m...

Various concurrency control algorithms di er in the time when con icts are detected, and in the way they are resolved. In that respect, the Pessimistic and Optimistic Concurrency Control (PCC and OCC) alternatives represent two extremes. PCC locking protocols detect con icts as soon as they occur and resolve them using blocking. OCC protocols detect con icts at transaction commit time and resol...

This paper introduces an approach to analyze the power and energy consumption of a many-core system. The investigation has been done by using the Intel SCC system as an experimental platform. The approach is to collect the time and power profiling of an executing application on the Intel SCC system. And then, we find the total energy consumed for the entire execution. We studied the effects of ...

Classical coding schemes that rely on joint typicality (such as Slepian-Wolf coding and channel coding) assume known statistics and rely on asymptotically long sequences. However, in practice the statistics are unknown, and the sequences are of finite length n. In this finite regime, we must allow a non-zero probability of coding error and also pay a penalty by transmitting extra bits. The pena...

DL-a-Difluoromethyl ornithine (DFMO) is a new and specific inhibitor of the first step in polyamine biosynthesis. We recently reported that DFMO profoundly diminishes cell survival in a single culture line of human small-cell lung carcinoma (SCC). In the present study, we have extended this work to ascertain: (a) the effects of DFMO on the spectrum of cell growth for SCC in culture; and (b) how...