Graph matching aims at establishing correspondences between graph elements, and is widely used in many computer vision tasks. Among recently proposed graph matching algorithms, those utilizing the path following strategy have attracted special research attentions due to their exhibition of state-of-the-art performances. However, the paths computed in these algorithms often contain singular poin...

Current applications of helical cone-beam computed tomography (CT) involve primarily a constant pitch where the translating speed of the table and the rotation speed of the source-detector remain constant. However, situations do exist where it may be more desirable to use a helical scan with a variable translating speed of the table, leading a variable pitch. One of such applications could aris...

Multi-strip resonator BPF is fabricated in the LTCC configuration. The center frequency is 3.5GHz, fractional bandwidth is 0.1 and 3-stage Chebyshev type is designed. The relative permittivity of the ceramic is 18.3, resulting in the size as small as 2.3 × 1.6 × 0.73mm. The in-band loss is 3.5 dB, which could be reduced in the stable mass production state. The spurious suppression of more than ...

Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF) is a recently described pediatric septicemia caused by a strain of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius. The pilus specified by this bacterium may be important in BPF pathogenesis, enhancing attachment to host tissue. Here, we report the cloning of two haf (for H. influenzae biogroup aegyptius fimbriae) gene clusters from a cosmid library of strain F3031. We ...

PCR-based subtractive genome hybridization produced clones harboring inserts present in Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF) prototype strain F3031 but absent in noninvasive Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius isolate F1947. Some of these inserts have no matches in the GenBank database, while others are similar to genes encoding either known or hypothetical proteins. One insert represents a 2.3...

The bipalpebral flap (BPF) consists of two cutaneous flaps-a sliding flap from the lower lid and a rotating flap from the upper lid. These skin flaps are dissected from the orbicularis muscle with careful coagulation of all tiny bleeding vessels. Skin flaps were preferred to myocutaneous flaps because they allow a simpler surgical procedure. The principal advantage of this technique is that it ...

The effect of supplementing Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) that was engineered to express epidermal growth factor (EGF-LL) to early-weaned pigs fed diets with typical levels of blood plasma (5%) or diets without blood plasma [blood plasma was substituted with soybean (Glycine max) meal and fish meal, based on amino acid supply] was examined. A total of 108 weaned piglets (19-26 d of age; mean i...

BACKGROUND Gray matter magnetic resonance imaging T2 hypointensity, a marker of iron deposition, is associated with clinical impairment and brain atrophy in cross-sectional studies of multiple sclerosis. Treatment with intramuscular interferon beta-1a limits brain atrophy in the second year of treatment. OBJECTIVE To test whether T2 hypointensity predicts brain atrophy and whether interferon ...

As a neurotransmitter, serotonin (5-HT) is widely used throughout the brain and known to play a role in many processes including emotion and brain development. Of the 15 subtypes of 5-HT receptors, the 1A receptor (5-HT1A) has been implicated in depression and suicide. Using the [carbonyl-C]WAY100635 ([C]WAY) ligand and positron emission tomography, we have studied the 5-HT1A receptor, first in...

This paper presents Swift, a packet filter for high performance packet capture on commercial off-the-shelf hardware. The key features of Swift include (1) extremely low filter update latency for dynamic packet filtering, and (2) Gbps high-speed packet processing. Based on complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architecture (ISA), Swift achieves the former with an instruction se...