Andrea Donnellan, Geoffrey Fox, John Rundle, Dennis McLeod, Terry Tullis, Lisa Grant 1) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 2) Indiana University, 501 N. Morton, Ste. 224, Bloomington, IN 47404 3) University of California, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616 4) University of Southern California, 3651 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089 5) Brown University, Provid...

Pressure garments are the main method of treatment and prophylaxis for hypertrophic burn scars. The pressure they exert on the scarred skin prevents contractures forming, reduces the itchiness and pruritus associated with active hypertrophic scars, and is believed, by many, to hasten normalization of the scar tissue. The pressure exerted is believed to be critical to treatment success and can b...

The Alboran Basin and the surrounding Betic-Rif Cordilleras (see Fig. 1) constitute an arc-shaped thrust-belt that exempli®es contemporaneous internal extension and frontal thrusting in an overall compressional setting. The complex tectonic evolution of the region is the result of ongoing convergence between Africa and Eurasia since late Mesozoic. Until the amalgamation of Iberia with Europe, f...

Handle is an important property of fabrics. In this work we tried to predict the handles of some worsted fabrics by their physical properties using a backpropagation network. Also an unsupervised kohonen network was used for clustering the fabrics. Physical properties of fabrics were measured by universal test equipments and hand values of the fabrics were determined by a panel of judges consis...

PURPOSE PP2A is a serine/threonine phosphatase critical to physiological processes, including apoptosis. Cell penetrating peptides are molecules that can translocate into cells without causing membrane damage. Our goal was to develop cell-penetrating fusion peptides specifically designed to disrupt the caspase-9/PP2A interaction and evaluate their therapeutic potential in vitro and in vivo. E...

W e present an application of novel massively parallel datamining techniques to highly precise inference of important physical processes from remote sensing imagery. Specifically, we have developed and applyed a system, Quakefinder, that automatically detects and measures tectonic activity in the earth’s crust by examination of satellite data. W e have used Quakef inder to automatically map the...

The Davisian model elucidates landscape development through an orogeny by denudation processes, postulating prolonged still-stand of a landmass following rapid tectonic uplift, ultimately resulting in a peneplain. The Penckian model emphasizes that landscape is shaped by concurrent tectonics and denudation, and includes the primary peneplain as an antithesis against the Davisian end-peneplain b...

We describe herein a case of an impending corneal perforation with a large descemetocele in a patient with previous penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) that subsequently was treated with an emergent lamellar keratoplasty using frozen preserved cornea. A 76-year-old male patient, who had a PKP, presented with a completely whitish and edematous graft accompanied by large epithelial defects. Although a...