Hypertrophy and hyperplasia of vascular smooth muscle cells are hallmarks of the common vascular disorders of atherosclerosis, restenosis, and hypertension and contribute to their long-term sequelae. Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a potent smooth muscle mitogen and hypertrophic agent. The importance of Ang II in the pathogenesis of vascular disease is reflected in the efficacy of angiotensin-conver...

Atherosclerosis is, in large part, an inflammatory process. White blood cells of different lineages are essential components of the atherosclerotic plaque. More important than their numbers, white blood cells influence the structure of an atherosclerotic plaque, and the function of the vessel in which the plaque is present, by secreting a host of agents that affect resident vascular cells.1 Mac...

ICT enables business-to-government (b-to-g) information exchange, which can be used to enhance control and compliance by businesses. However, sharing information can cause resistance by businesses, as for them information is key to competitive advantage, whereas governments need this information to conduct their tasks at lower costs. In this paper, the adoption of a b-to-g information-sharing p...

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This tutorial is an introduction to jsPsych, which is a free and open-source software package for creating experiments that run in a web browser. Participants in the tutorial will learn how to build an experiment using jsPsych, and how to extend and customize jsPsych for novel experimental paradigms. Running experiments online is a popular method among cognitive scientists. Data collection is (...

This chapter addresses an open problem in visual motion analysis, the estimation of image motion in the vicinity of occlusion boundaries. With a Bayesian formulation, local image motion is explained in terms of multiple, competing, nonlinear models, including models for smooth (translational) motion and for motion boundaries. The generative model for motion boundaries explicitly encodes the ori...

In this study, we have classified different types of problems which are related to facility planning and layout design for different types of manufacturing processes. The main problems which are related to location of facilities which also affects the system performance such as distribution of man, material and machine in a plant or a factory and their optimization technique while using of math...

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Cysteine side chains of proteins are being increasingly appreciated as the site of major posttranslational modifications that exert profound degrees of protein regulation. One of the consequences of tissue nitroso-redox imbalance is a process by which regulatory thiols switch from a state of physiologic regulation by S-nitrosylation to a state of dysregulated function because of oxidation. A ke...

Current mosaicing methods use narrow field of view cameras to acquire image data. This poses problems when computing a complete spherical mosaic. First, a large number of images are needed to capture a sphere. Second, errors in mosaicing make it difficult to complete the spherical mosaic without seams. Third, with a hand-held camera it is hard for the user to ensure complete coverage of the sph...