To uncover the reasons for reported internephron heterogeneity in acute renal failure (ARF) serial micropuncture experiments in norepinephrine-induced ARF and sham-infused control rats were carried out to investigate this phenomenon. Proximal tubular pressures (PT) were scattered at 24, 48, and 72 hr in ARF rats ranging from 4 to 42 mm Hg, but the majority were greater than the mean control val...

This paper presents an approach for modeling human interactions based on existent relationship characteristics between body parts motions and environmental parameters. Human interactions properly cannot be identified without knowing the relations between the objects such as human-robot and human–human. During any human interaction, there are many relations between human body parts and others. I...

Joint adjustment of cryptic relatedness and population structure is necessary to reduce bias in DNA sequence analysis; however, existent sparse regression methods model these two confounders separately. Incorporating prior biological information has great potential to enhance statistical power but such information is often overlooked in many existent sparse regression models. We developed a uni...

Before the flourishing of the Internet, computers were limited to the walls of the organization where computers were linked to each other but had little contact with computer systems outside. Now, we can reach farther, and can expose and link our computers to the entire world; however, such capabilities have made our privacy and assets vulnerable to cyber space attackers. Fortunately, attacks c...

In this paper, we describe continuity as an important property to reach usability in many emerging systems such as multimodal and virtual reality systems. The approach is based on synchronization and integration characteristics existent between entities involved in the domain.

A neural implementation of an extended logic programming paradigm has been obtained. It has been applied to the design of a unified framework for different existent approaches to diagnosis.