HE regular review of patients who have received treatment in the past is a tradition in all branches of medicine. Long-term follow up is especially common in patients who have had cancer and indeed some clinicians believe that such patients should be seen on a regular basis in a hospital clinic for the rest of their lives. But now that more patients are surviving for longer periods, the time to...

Autonomous vehicles are a new and exciting challenge for the automation of transport systems. The scope of applications covers heavy traffic control from construction sites, fork-lifting trucks in factories, switcher locomotives in stations and so on. This article refers to the problem of backing up a model-truck with a trailer to a ramp. The concrete solution to this problem requires the integ...

In recent years, emerging structural information on the aRNAP (archaeal RNA polymerase) apparatus has shown its strong evolutionary relationship with the eukaryotic counterpart, RNA Pol (polymerase) II. A novel atomic model of SshRNAP (Sulfolobus shibatae RNAP) in complex with dsDNA (double-stranded DNA) constitutes a new piece of information helping the understanding of the mechanisms for DNA ...

Fifteen years ago Larry Stevenson, in his memorable lectures, pointed to the great sheet of muscle that is the lat-issimus dorsi, and proposed that this potential power source should be harnessed for the purpose of circulatory assistance, and put to much better use as a cardiac muscle in patients handicapped and dying of heart failure. 1 Salmons and others 2 3 had demonstrated that this fast tw...

Normal subjects react more quickly to a pair of visual stimuli than to a stimulus alone. This phenomenon is known as the redundant signal effect (RSE) and represents an example of divided visual attention in which signal processing is carried out in parallel to the advantage of response speed. A most interesting aspect of this phenomenon is that it can occur when one stimulus in a pair cannot b...

As U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins stated in recent testimony to Congress, “Our nation has never witnessed a time of greater promise for advances in medicine.” Researchers are moving closer to developing a universal flu vaccine, cancer immunotherapy (harnessing the immune system to attack tumor cells) is on the horizon, and the public/private BRAIN initiative w...

In this paper the real time virtual dress-up system has been proposed. The proposed system consists of multiple tasks including extraction of different body parts, torso detection, resizing input dress images and dress up using blending and re-blending techniques over the subject. The coexistence of different clothing and cluttering backgrounds is the main difficulty for accurate body extractio...

Compared to centuries of physics and millennia of mathematics, the 50-year-history of computer science and information management research makes us the toddlers of the scientific community. Yet during our brief existence, we’ve revolutionized the world and, not content with that, gone on to build and study virtual worlds. We have justly taken pride in our accomplishments, and developed our own ...

A new method to detect finite-time blow-up in systems of ordinary differential equations is presented. This simple algorithmic procedure is based on the analysis of singularities in complex time and amounts to checking the real-valuedness of the leading order term in the asymptotic series describing the behavior of the general solution around movable singularities. Illustrative examples and an ...

We consider the L 2-gradient ow associated with the Yang-Mills functional, the so-called Yang-Mills heat ow. In the setting of a trivial principal SO(n)-bundle over R n in dimension n greater than 4, we show blow-up in nite time for a class of SO(n)-equivariant initial connections.