1130-1300: Optical I : Image Processing Pipelines (venue: Chandrasekhar Auditorium) Chair: R. Srianand Bhuvnesh Jain (U. Pennsylvania): Overview of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (15) Robert Lupton (Princeton U.): Optical scientific pipelines: the intestinal flora, and how not to reinvent it again (35) Adam Bolton (U. Utah): Beyond the Boxcar: Modern Calibration and Extraction of Optical S...

Some considerations relating to the design of the JWST Calibration pipelines are presented. Much of the code for calibrating the detectors can be shared among the instruments, and the fact that several observing modes are common to more than one instrument means that it makes sense to design the pipelines to calibrate observing modes rather than instruments.

Wax crystallisation and deposition from offshore reservoirs have been causing serious problems such as plugged pipelines and reduced production flow rates. This issue is receiving more attention from the researchers and for commercial applications due to the shift in trend from using offshore production facilities to pipelines utilization. The aim of this study is the implementation of the Avra...

1. Using the forearm balance method, together with systemic infusions of L-[ring-2,6-3H]phenylalanine and L-[1-14C]leucine, we examined the effects of infused branched-chain amino acids on whole-body and skeletal muscle amino acid kinetics in 10 postabsorptive normal subjects; 10 control subjects received only saline. 2. Infusion of branched-chain amino acids caused a four-fold rise in arterial...

XML languages are increasingly used for representations aimed to XML applications running on a variety of platforms. We have developed an architecture that automatically constructs combinations of XML processing pipelines that produce device specific representations. This is achieved by associating sets of elements and attributes of XML languages to processing pipelines according to platform ca...

BACKGROUND Drugs for the treatment of groups of pigs receiving liquid feed are frequently mixed into the feed and administered via the pipelines of the feeding installations. In-feed antimicrobials may select antimicrobial resistant strains among the bacteria which form the biofilm of these pipelines and are shed into the liquid feed. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS In order to evaluate the risk of sel...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized plant and animal research in many ways including new methods of high throughput genotyping. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) has been demonstrated to be a robust and cost-effective genotyping method capable of producing thousands to millions of SNPs across a wide range of species. Undoubtedly, the greatest barrier to its broader use is the chall...

one grotesque catfish specimen was collected in zhangjiang river (upper reach of a secondary tributary of hongshuihe river) in libo county, guizhou province, china. this specimen bears surprising character of four dorsal fins, which have not appeared in any other silurid fishes. but other morphological characters, such as two pairs of barbels, lower jaw projecting beyond upper jaw, the first do...