In recent years, much research has been conducted on image super-resolution (SR). To the best of our knowledge, however, few SR methods were concerned with compressed images. The SR of compressed images is a challenging task due to the complicated compression artifacts, while many images suffer from them in practice. The intuitive solution for this difficult task is to decouple it into two sequ...

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP) is an interstitial lung disease that develops following repeated exposure to environmental antigens. The disease results in alveolitis, granuloma formation and may progress to a fibrotic chronic form, which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The severity of the disease correlates with a neutrophil rich influx and an IL-17 response. We used ...

For short canopies, latent energy flux may be estimated using a shortened surface energy balance from measurements of sensible and soil heat flux and the net irradiance at the surface. The surface renewal (SR) method for estimating sensible heat, latent energy, and other scalar fluxes has the advantage over other micrometeorological methods since the method requires only measurement of the scal...

Due to its relevance to clinical practice, extinction of learned fears has been a major focus of recent research. However, less is known about the means by which conditioned fears re-emerge (i.e., spontaneously recover) as time passes or contexts change following extinction. The periaqueductal gray represents the final common pathway mediating defensive reactions to fear and we have reported pr...

BACKGROUND Reducing systolic blood pressure (BP) is of major benefit to patients with isolated systolic hypertension, but lowering normal diastolic BP may be harmful in terms of cardiovascular risk. Effects of different drugs on systolic BP, diastolic BP, and pulse pressure are therefore of interest. METHODS The NatriliX SR versus CandEsartan and amLodipine in the reduction of systoLic blood ...

High yield photolytic reduction of a series of thiaphosphoranes Z p SR to give Z p H with UV-light-induced tri-n-butyltin hydride through phosphoranyl radical Z p is described. This reaction is inhibited by a-methylstyrene and initiated by a radical initiator such as azobisisobutyronitrile

Properties of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) with respect to Ca(2+) loading and release were measured in mechanically skinned fiber preparations from isolated extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of the rat that were either kept at room temperature (23 degrees C) or exposed to temperatures in the upper physiological range for mammalian skeletal muscle (30 min at 40 or 43 degrees C). The abi...

This paper presents experimental and numerical investigations of the seismic failure reinforced unreinforced monoliths Huangdeng concrete gravity dam. To verify scale factors, we use suitable materials (emulation material fine alloy wire) to simulate dam steel reinforcement (SR) in a scaled experiment model that includes water-retaining monolith overflow We design shaking table tests based on s...

Introduction In all types of muscle cells, contraction is initiated by an increase in intracellular Ca. Another similarity among skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle cells is that much of the Ca responsible for contraction is released from the SR. Beyond these common features, however, molecular and subcellular differences among muscle types can frequently explain functional differences. For in...