Articular cartilage has a unique structure that makes it very different from any other tissues in the body. It has such specific roles and functions such as weight bearing with low frictional coefficient that the main bulk of its structure is based on that alone, thus making it a vascular, and thereby greatly limiting its self regeneration capabilities. This article aims to review the structure...

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Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play important biological roles ranging from regulation of gene expression to translation of nucleotide sequence into proteins. Computational tools to analyze homologous ncRNAs and infer their shared structure are correspondingly important. We are developing constrained, tractable algorithms for simultaneous multiple sequence alignment and structural inference of small ...

We present a system for analyzing and comparing the composition and structure of video content. The system is inspired by the Arijon's 'The Grammar of the Film Language' [1] and relies upon face-detection and unsupervised learning to classify video composition. The compositional elements are then visualized sequentially in a web-interface that allows the user to explore the compositional elemen...

Forest fragmentation arising from modern forestry practices has dramatically increased the amount of edge habitat relative to interior habitat. Edge habitats have unique microenvironments that have the potential to profoundly impact forest communities. In this study, we characterized the forest composition and structure of edge and interior plots within a second growth big leaf maple-Douglas fi...

In the spleen, liver, and kidneys of most mammals may be found varying quantities of yellow-brown granules and to these granules has been given the general name hemosiderin. Since the formation and location of hemosiderin coincides in time and place with the destruction of blood, the idea has become firmly established that hemosiderin represents some step in the disintegration of hemoglobin and...

There is considerable interest in means for predicting reactivity hazard potential from chemical structure. Such means are intended to provide measures of the likelihood that a given chemical composition can undergo rapid self-reaction, i.e., that it can detonate or deflagrate. The means to be discussed are most useful in predicting behavior under unconfined conditions. As they are computationa...

The composition of the insoluble "integuments" and soluble "contents" fractions of spores of four Bacillus species of widely differing heat resistance were compared. Electron microscopy of thin sections was also used to determine and compare the morphological structures in the integument preparations. The soluble fractions of the thermophiles, B. coagulans and B. stearothermophilus, had a highe...

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