Intra-specific variation in life history and mating strategies can lead to differences in energy allocation and expenditure in males and females. This may, in turn, explain large-scale evolutionary patterns. In this study, I investigated the effects of body mass, temperature and sex on resting metabolic rates (RMRs) in sexually mature male and female tarantulas (Aphonopelma anax (Chamberlin)), ...

OBJECTIVE The treatment of giant cell tumor (GCT) is mainly performed surgically. However, GCT in spine seems difficult to treat because of the limited surgical accessibility and proximity. In this report, we analyzed the outcome of GCT treatment in spine. METHODS Between 2000 and 2012, 19 patients received treatment for GCT in spine. Median age at their first diagnosis was 31 years, 10 patie...

Pituitary adenomas with parasellar extension present a technical challenge for adequate visualization and gross total resection (GTR). The endoscope improves identification of extension, however, additional intraoperative imaging adjuncts can further augment visualization. Intraoperative ultrasound (iUS) may provide viable cost-effective solution imaging. We sought to assess the ability predict...

Existing Scene Text Recognition (STR) methods typically use a language model to optimize the joint probability of 1D character sequence predicted by visual recognition (VR) model, which ignore 2D spatial context semantics within and between instances, making them not generalize well arbitrary shape scene text. To address this issue, we make first attempt perform textual reasoning based on in pa...

The research on human cognition has recently benefited from the use of the mathematical formalism of quantum theory in Hilbert space. However, cognitive situations exist which indicate that the Hilbert space structure, and the associated Born rule, would be insufficient to provide a satisfactory modeling of the collected data, so that one needs to go beyond Hilbert space. In Part I of this pape...

This document explores the links between the proposed “grand unified theory (GTU)” based on a SU(5) model and the theory involving extended Lie products (ELP). A special focus is given to some EM fields obtained via a Cartan-like procedure rebuilding the general theory of relativity (GTR) with the variations of the basis vectors up to the second order (the so-called GTR2 – see link in the bibli...

Inference of evolutionary trees and rates from biological sequences is commonly performed using continuous-time Markov models of character change. The Markov process evolves along an unknown tree while observations arise only from the tips of the tree. Rate heterogeneity is present in most real data sets and is accounted for by the use of flexible mixture models where each site is allowed its o...

A new system for intraframe coding of video is described. This system combines zerotrees of vectors of wavelet coefficients and the generalized-threshold-replenishment (GTR) technique for adaptive vector quantization (AVQ). A data structure, the vector zerotree (VZT), is introduced to identify trees of insignificant vectors, i.e., those vectors of wavelet coefficients in a dyadic subband decomp...

The O-antigen of Salmonella lipopolysaccharide is a major antigenic determinant and its chemical composition forms the basis for Salmonella serotyping. Modifications of the O-antigen that can affect the serotype include those carried out by the products of glycosyltransferase operons (gtr), which are present on specific Salmonella and phage genomes. Here we show that expression of the gtr genes...