This paper presents a novel idea based on a kind of structure-based pattern, such as collarette, embedded in human iris for biometric recognition. The feature extraction module traces the collarette. The system encodes the features to generate its iris feature codes. Finally, the recognition module uses these feature codes for iris matching. The experimental results show that the system has an ...

Reduced instruction set computing, or RISC, is a CPU design strategy based on Various. The instruction set is a portion of what makes up an architecture. take advantage of all the various address modes that could be used with the instructions. The actual bits stored in a special fixedlocation "instruction type" field (that is. There is no indication that the IMCI instruction set used on the Kni...

Corresponding Author: Barbara Friesenecker, M.D. Division of General and Surgical Intensive Care Medicine Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine The Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck Anichstr. 35 A B 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Phone: +43-512 504 80395 Fax: +43-512 504 5832 email: [email protected] Articles in PresS. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol (June 10, 2004)....

Interpretation of renin-angiotensin blockade with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors is potentially confounded by their multiple effects. We used a selective renin inhibitor (enalkiren, A-64662) to explore the renal and endocrine effects of angiotensin II in healthy men. Each received 90-minute enalkiren infusions at 2-day intervals, on a low (10 mmol, 16 subjects) and high (200 mmol, 12 ...

In a search for more effective antimicrobial therapy of neonatal Escherichia coli infection, newer beta-lactam antibiotics, cefotaxime and imipenem, were evaluated for their activities against a K1 E. coli strain in vitro and in vivo, and the results were compared with those of conventional therapeutic regimens for neonatal E. coli infection: ampicillin-gentamicin and ampicillin-chloramphenicol...

Five young adult Rhesus monkeys were included in this study. The weight of the animals ranged from 3.4 to 4.0 kg, with a mean of 3.6 kg. Each animal was restrained and anesthetized with ketamine HC1 at 25 mg/kg IM. An intravenous fluid of 5% dextrose and water with 1/4 normal saline was initiated and profused at a maintenance rate. Each monkey received intranasal midazolam (VersedTM, Roche Phar...