Image completion is a technique widely used that automatically removes objects or repairs damaged portions of image. However, information regarding the original image is often lacking in structure reconstruction, and as a result, images with complex structures are difficult to restore. This study proposed a support vector regression-oriented image completion (SVR-IC) method, the goal of which i...

The present study analyses autopsy material from five multiple sclerosis patients who received autologous stem cell transplantation. A total of 53 white matter lesions were investigated using routine and immunohistochemical stainings to characterize the demyelinating activity, inflammatory infiltrates, acutely damaged axons and macrophages/microglial cells. We found evidence for ongoing active ...

Expansion of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) colonies on public and private lands can result in damage to property. Physical barriers to prairie dogs can be used to minimize human–wildlife conflicts. We evaluated 17 existing barriers in the Fort Collins and Boulder, Colorado, areas. Most barriers were made of a single row of vinyl material; these barriers sustained high levels o...

This Report is enriched by the personal observations of the author who ran a Hostel at Windermere for boys coming from Belsen, Buchenwald and Auschwitz in July 1945 and afterwards worked under the Control Commission in Germany. She is, therefore, able to give living examples which illustrate the wisdom she has painfully acquired. Understanding of the children's problem and of the possibilities ...

A durable-goods monopolist may use quality degradation as a commitment not to lower price in the future. The introduction of damaged goods expedites lowvaluation consumers’ future demands, and helps the firm to mitigate the Coasian time-consistency problem. In such a case, damaged goods are more likely to be observed relative to the static setting where only the price-discrimination aspect of q...

Recently, research on attention has focused on 3 networks that are linked to separate brain regions, i.e. orienting, alerting, and executive control. The attention network test (ANT) is one of the methods to measure the three attention functions. However, neuropsychological investigations have not examined the anatomical disassociation of different attention networks with the same task. We comp...

A methodology has been developed for characterising the mechanical behaviour of concrete, based on the damaged plasticity model, enriched with a user subroutine (V)USDFLD in order to capture better the ductility of the material under moderate confining pressures. The model has been applied in the context of the international benchmark IRIS_2012, organised by the OECD/NEA/CSNI Nuclear Energy Age...

Tumours of the septum pellucidum (SP) are rare and seldom associated with memory impairment either before or after operation. A patient is described who developed amnesia after transcallosal excision of a tumour of the SP. Radiology did not show any major lesion of the brain areas traditionally associated with amnesia. Because septal nuclei could have been damaged during surgery their possible ...

Skeletons of healthy and damaged specimens of Spongia officinalis were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Comparisons of the fibre net demonstrated that bacterial invasion was responsible for the decay of spongin fibres in affected sponges. Bacteria were located both inside and on the surface of fibres. Irregularly shaped spaces and canals together with many orifices wer...