BACKGROUND Xenon seems to be an ideal anesthetic drug. To explore if next to the antagonism at the NMDA-receptor other molecular targets are involved, we tested the xenon requirement in short sleeping Drosophila shaker mutants and in na[har(38)]. METHODS The Drosophila melanogaster strains wildtype Canton-S, na[har(38)], sh(102) and sh(mns), were raised and sleep was measured. Based on the re...

Human activity recognition (HAR) has been a popular research topic, because of its importance in security and healthcare contributing to aging societies. One of the emerging applications of HAR is to monitor needy people such as elders, patients of disabled, or undergoing physical rehabilitation, using sensing technology. In this paper, an improved version of Very Fast Decision Tree (VFDT) is p...

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a Gram-negative pathogen associated with the biofilm-mediated disease chronic periodontitis. P. gingivalis biofilm formation is dependent on environmental heme for which P. gingivalis has an obligate requirement as it is unable to synthesize protoporphyrin IX de novo, hence P. gingivalis transports iron and heme liberated from the human host. Homeostasis of a variety...

Aldose reductase (AR), an enzyme widely believed to be involved in the aberrant metabolism of glucose and development of diabetic complications, is expressed at low levels in the mouse. We studied whether expression of human AR (hAR), its inhibition with lidorestat, which is an AR inhibitor (ARI), and the presence of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes altered plasma fructose, mortality, and/...

The chunks of data that are generated after the backup are physically distributed after deduplication in backup system, which creates a problem know as fragmentation. Basically fragmentation basically comes into sparse and outof-order containers. The sparse container adversely affect the performance while restoring the database and garbage collection effectively , while the out-of-order contain...

WE have. observed that FK S06 (FK) preve~ted the inductIon of hyperacute reJectIOn (HAR) In hamster-to-ratliver (OLTX) and heart (HTX) transplant models and analyzed the mechamsms. 1.5 x 107 hamster hepatocytes (HC) or a minced heart as source of xenoantigens were given to prospective recipients on day -6. with or without FK (I mg/kg/d x fl). OL TX and HTX were performed on day O. Xenoantigen a...

Automatic analysis of the video is one of most complex problems in the fields of computer vision and machine learning. A significant part of this research deals with (human) activity recognition (HAR) since humans, and the activities that they perform, generate most of the video semantics. Video-based HAR has applications in various domains, but one of the most important and challenging is HAR ...

There are various designs of tools and equipment used for harvesting the crops and threshing it separately. Sickles, hand tools and reapers for grain crops and diggers for tuber crops and rhizomes, operated with different power sources are used. Combine harvesters, both tractor mounted and self-propelled, are being very widely used for different grain crops. Functional requirements and principl...

In this project the efforts were geared towards building and testing a high aspect ratio (HAR) microfluidic device to concentrate microalgae in a continuous flow microfluidic chip. This project was made possible through funding from USDA, SBIR phase-I grant to Phycal, Inc. Algae are a promising candidate for large-scale production of biofuels, an important source of renewable energy. However, a...

In deduplication-based backup systems, the chunks of each backup are physically scattered after deduplication, which causes a challenging fragmentation problem. The fragmentation decreases restore performance, and results in invalid chunks becoming physically scattered in different containers after users delete backups. Existing solutions attempt to rewrite duplicate but fragmented chunks to im...