Objective(s): Metastasis is the main cause of death in patients with melanoma. Cannabis-based medicines are effective adjunctive drugs in cancer patients. Tau and Stathmin proteins are the key proteins in cancer metastasis. Here we have investigated the effect of a standardized Cannabis sativa extract on cell migration and Tau and Stathmin gene expression in the melanoma cell line. Materials an...

Elastic prestack, reverse-time depth migration is applied to both synthetic data and four-component eld data from the Valhall area. Reverse-time extrapolation of the recorded multi-component data is by 2-D elastic nite di erence solution to the full wave equation. An eikonal solver is used to compute the acoustic traveltime from the source to the image points. By using horizontal inline and ver...

We implement Stolt-stretch time migration with an analytical formulation for the optimal stretch parameter and show how it improves the quality of imaging. By a cascaded f-k migration approach with this algorithm, we manage to obtain time migration results on real data comparable to Gazdag’s phase-shift method, with a high accuracy for steeply deeping events at a computational cost dramatically...

We present a quantitative overhead analysis for effective task migration in biosensor networks. A biosensor network is the key technology which can automatically provide accurate and specific parameters of a human in real time. Biosensor nodes are typically very small devices, so the use of computing resources is restricted. Due to the limitation of nodes, the biosensor network is vulnerable to...

This paper considers the relationship between economic factors and national security. While considering a broad number of issue areas, the principal theme of the course is the way in which economic factors (as immigration) fundamentally influence the national security of the region, and the way in which those factors shape and constrain the strategies chosen to pursue that security. South-South...

Constructing the seismic image in vertical time, as opposed to depth, eliminates the inherent ambiguity of resolving the vertical P -wave velocity from surface seismic data in transversely isotropic media with a vertical axis of symmetry (VTI media). By ray tracing in the space-time (x-τ)-domain, a traveltime map is built by interpolating the traveltime information along the rays onto a regular...

 Abstract  Background: Despite the long-standing association of macrophage migration inhibitory  factor (MIF) with delayed-type hypersensitivity response, the potential role  of MIF in chronic allograft nephropathy is unknown. The association between upregulation of MIF expression, macrophage and T cell infiltration and the severity of  chronic allograft nephropathy suggests that MIF may be an ...

Shot-geophone migration, commonly accomplished using wavefield depth extrapolation (“survey sinking”), has a two way reverse time realization as well. The reverse time version permits imaging of overturned reflections. Shot-geophone migration differs from other prestack migrations in the definition of the prestack image volume which it creates. This difference is most clearly seen by identifyin...

Prestack migration algorithms are usually divided into two classes: ray-tracing based migration methods and wave-equation methods. The latter methods provide more accurate migration images, especially in complex geological areas, but they are the relatively expensive compared with ray-based migration methods. In this work, I test the phase encoding strategy on three types of one-way wave equati...