*Study carried out in the Mycology Laboratory of the Santa Casa-Medical Complex and in the Hospital Sanatório Partenon, Secretaria de Saúde e Meio Ambiente(HSP-SSMA, Partenon Sanatorium Hospital, Department of Health and Environment), Porto Alegre, RS.. Correspondence to: Luiz Carlos Severo. Laboratório de Micologia, Hospital Santa Rita, Santa Casa-Complexo Hospitalar. Rua Annes Dias 285, CEP: ...

The interest in agent based technologies in the sense of distributed computing is continuously increasing in academic and industrial research and development. But the concentration of research in distinct niches has lead to a lack of consensus regarding basic concepts of agent theory and their relation to the development of agent systems and applications. This gap between theory and practice ha...

ELVIRA GRANDONE,* MAURIZIO MARGAGLIONE,* DONATELLA COLAIZZO,* GIUSEPPE PAVONE,° DARIO PALADINI,° PASQUALE MARTINELLI,° GIOVANNI DI MINNO* *Unità di Aterosclerosi e Trombosi and Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, S. Giovanni Rotondo (FG); °Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Università “Federico II”, Naples, Italy Correspondence: Elvira Grandone, MD, ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to demonstrate a new, cost-effective method to define the sustainable amounts of harvested wood products in Southeast Asian countries case studies, while avoiding degradation (net loss) of total wood carbon stocks. Satellite remote sensing from the MODIS sensor was used in the CASA (Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach) carbon cycle model to map forest prod...

AIM To study whether additional measurements of motility characteristics of spermatozoa by computer assisted semen analysis (CASA) were more sensitive indicators of reduced semen quality than estimates of percentages of motile, rapid or progressive cells. METHODS Intermittent scrotal insulation was applied to 6 rams for 16 h per day for 21 days or to 2 of these for 12 h per day for 28 days in...

Accurate determination of sperm concentration in fluid suspension is a critical component in a semen analysis. Inaccurate estimations can lead to misinterpretation of the spermiogram and, in the case of livestock production, can lead to faulty insemination doses, which can adversely affect stud power, fertility, fecundity, and cost effectiveness of breeding programs. Capillary-loaded slides, li...

Symbiosis between Rhizobium and its leguminous host requires elaborate communication between the partners throughout the interaction process. A calmodulin-like protein, termed calsymin, was identified in Rhizobium etli; a calmodulin-related protein in a Gram-negative bacterium had not been described previously. Calsymin possesses three repeated homologous domains. Each domain contains two predi...

Health Monitoring systems with textile sensors offer more comfort compared to gel electrodes, however they tend to suffer from poor skin contact and motion artifacts. In order to improve the monitoring reliability, we propose to apply multiple sensors and context aware sensing. A context aware monitoring system can adapt monitoring according to changes in the environment and the behavior of peo...

Techniques for separating speech from background noise and other sources of interference have important applications for robust speech recognition and speech enhancement. Many traditional computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) based approaches decompose the input mixture into a time-frequency (T-F) representation, and attempt to identify the T-F units where the target energy dominates tha...