A new approach is presented to automatically build a dynamic and multi-resolution 360° panorama (DMP) from image sequences taken by a hand-held camera. A multiresolution representation is built for the more interesting areas by means of camera zooming. The dynamic objects in the scene can be detected and represented separately. The DMP construction method is fast, robust and automatic, achievin...

Because there is currently no formal way to specify user interfaces, nor a clean way to decouple a user interface from its application code, we propose in this position paper the use of Declarative Meta Programming (DMP) to solve these problems. DMP uses facts and rules to write down a user interface in a declarative way, and will provide a more formal way to specify user interfaces. Furthermor...

An electrophoretic procedure is outlined for the determination of the number of ligands bound to technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals. The approach involves use of ligands that will complex technetium in a similar fashion but that differ in charge. This approach was applied experimentally to dimercapto ligands in which the ligating sulfur atoms are separated by a flexible three-carbon chain (1,3...

The concept of e-Science applies to science that, increasingly, is executed through distributed global collaborations where extensive data collections are processed by large scale computing resources through scientific workflows. These data can be heterogeneous, with multiple provenances, created and transformed according to different data schemas, and the processing can be distributed by multi...

A key step in bacterial endospore formation is engulfment, during which one bacterial cell engulfs another in a phagocytosis-like process that normally requires SpoIID, SpoIIM, and SpoIIP (DMP). We here describe a second mechanism involving the zipper-like interaction between the forespore protein SpoIIQ and its mother cell ligand SpoIIIAH, which are essential for engulfment when DMP activity i...

Emerging and hazardous environmental pollutants like phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are one of the recent concerns worldwide. PAEs are considered to have diverse endocrine disrupting effects on human health. Industrial wastewater has been reported as an important environment with high concentrations of PAEs. In the present study, four short-chain PAEs including diallyl phthalate (DAP), diethyl pht...

Presuming weak collisional interactions to exchange the kinetic energy between dark matter and baryonic matter in a galaxy cluster, we re-examine the effectiveness of this process in several ‘cooling flow’ galaxy clusters using available X-ray observations and infer an upper limit on the heavy dark matter particle (DMP)−proton cross section σxp. With a relative collisional velocity V−dependent ...

The increase in urinary catecholamine was observed in the animals subjected to cold (1, 2). Norepine phrine and epinephrine released from sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands produced to increase plasma glucose and NEFA as fuels. The blockade of catecholamine action and the depletion of tissue cate cholamine led to death during cold-exposure (3). Our previous experiments howed that in ...

This study applied the theory of planned behavior to examine factors associated with the intention and behavior of staying in debt management plans (DMP) using data collected from a sample of clients of a national credit counseling agency. The findings of this study suggest that the behavioral intention is positively associated with the attitude toward the behavior, perceived control, satisfact...

We formulate a sufficient condition on the mesh under which we prove the discrete maximum principle (DMP) for the one-dimensional Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions discretized by the hp-FEM. The DMP holds if a relative length of every element K in the mesh is bounded by a value H∗ rel(p) ∈ [0.9, 1], where p ≥ 1 is the polynomial degree of the element K. The values H∗ rel(p) ar...