The Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem have become a focus of many researches on robot navigation. Generally the most widely used filter in SLAM problems are centralized filter. It is well known that SLAM based on conventional centralized filter must reconfigure the entire state vectors when the observation dimension changes, which cause an exponential growth in computation qu...

Zebrafish (Danio rerio) were placed in small wells that could be driven vertically with a series of calibrated sinusoids. Video images of the fish were obtained and analyzed to determine the levels and frequencies at which the fish responded to the stimulus tones. It was found that fish 4 days post fertilization (dpf) did not respond to the stimulus tones, whereas fish 5 dpf to adult did respon...

Tests of ultra-low sulfur diesel blended with soy-biodiesel at 5% and 20% were conducted using a 2002 model year Cummins ISB engine (with exhaust gas recirculation) that had been retrofitted with a passively regenerated catalyzed diesel particulate filter (DPF). Results show that on average, the DPF balance point temperature (BPT) is 45°C and 112°C lower for B20 blends and neat biodiesel, respe...

The zebrafish guanylate cyclase type 3 (zGC3) is specifically expressed in cone cells. A specifc antibody directed against zGC3 revealed expression at the protein level at 3.5 dpf in outer and inner retinal layers, which increased in intensity between 3.5 and 7 dpf. This expression pattern differed from sections of the adult retina showing strong immunostaining in outer segments of double cones...

Early life stage exposure to environmental chemicals may play a role in obesity by altering adipogenesis; however, robust in vivo methods to quantify these effects are lacking. The goal of this study was to analyze the effects of developmental exposure to chemicals on adipogenesis in the zebrafish (Danio rerio). We used label-free Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) microscopy for the first time ...

Natural agricultural products have the potential to be a substitute for synthetic polymers absorbentsin environmental remediation and spill cleanup recovery. One of these natural by-productswhich is available in many regions world Date Palm Fibers (DPF). DPF (also known assurface fibers) sorbent that exhibits good sorption characteristics. In an attempt tovalorize this abundant, low cost byprod...

Abstract Background The increasing demand for food production has led to a tenfold increase in nitrogen (N) fertilizer use since the Green Revolution. Nowadays, agricultural soils have been turned into high-nitrifying environments that N pollution. To decrease losses, synthetic nitrification inhibitors (SNIs) such as 3,4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP) developed. However, SNIs are not widely ...

PURPOSE A study was conducted to determine the dosimetric effects resulting from air pockets and high atomic number (Z) contrast medium within a multichannel breast brachytherapy device. MATERIAL AND METHODS A 5-6 cm diameter Contura (SenoRx) brachytherapy device was inflated using 37 cm(3) of saline. Baseline dose falloff from an HDR Iridium-192 source was measured with the Iridium source ce...

Particle filtering (PF) has been widely used in solving nonlinear/non Gaussian filtering problems. Inferring to the target tracking in a wireless sensor network (WSN), distributed PF (DPF) was used due to the limitation of nodes’ computing capacity. In this paper, a novel filtering method—asynchronous DPF (ADPF) for target tracking in WSN is proposed. There are two keys in the proposed algorith...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs showing a tissue-specific expression pattern, and whose function is to suppress protein synthesis. In this study, we hypothesized that expression of miRNAs would differ among fibroblasts from dental pulp (DPF), gingiva (GF) and periodontal ligament (PLF) in vitro. Once established by an explant technique, DPF, GF and PLF were collected for RNA isolat...