The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of photoperiod and feeding level on lipid metabolism in ovine perirenal and subcutaneous adipose tissues (AT) and in skeletal and cardiac muscles. Twenty dry non-pregnant ovariectomised ewes were divided into two groups and subjected to either 8 h or 16 h light/d, and underfed at 22 % energy requirements for 7 d. Half of the ewes in ea...

A method to make two types of hinges which bend toward opposite directions from the same epitaxial layers using the micro-origami technique is proposed and successfully applied to make standing micro-stages on a GaAs substrate. This method opens a path to fabricate more complex three-dimensional self-positioned micro-machined structures. q 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

A number of commercial devices for measuring the transverse electrical conductance of the thyroid cartilage produce waveforms that can be useful for monitoring movements within the larynx during voice production, especially movements that are closely related to the time-variation of the contact between the vocal folds as they vibrate. This paper compares the various approaches that can be used ...

We study the efficiency of V -fold cross-validation (VFCV) for model selection from the non-asymptotic viewpoint, and suggest an improvement on it, which we call “V -fold penalization”. Considering a particular (though simple) regression problem, we prove that VFCV with a bounded V is suboptimal for model selection, because it “overpenalizes” all the more that V is large. Hence, asymptotic opti...

This paper addresses a fully automatic landmarks detection method for breast reconstruction aesthetic assessment. The set of landmarks detected are the supraesternal notch (SSN), armpits, nipples, and inframammary fold (IMF). These landmarks are commonly used in order to perform anthropometric measurements for aesthetic assessment. The methodological approach is based on both illumination and m...

to study the seasonal variation in the characteristics of the azarbaijani buffalo semen, three 2-4-year-oldbulls of azarbaijani water buffaloes, kept in the buffalo breeding center, in urmia, northwest of iran, wereselected. semen samples were collected once a week for a period of one year using artificial vagina and abuffalo cow as a dummy. semen volume, colour, ph and motility and spermatozoa...

in this paper, we aresupposed to introduce the definitions of n-fold commutative, andimplicative hyper k-ideals. these definitions are thegeneralizations of the definitions of commutative, andimplicative hyper k-ideals, respectively, which have been definedin [12]. then we obtain some related results. in particular wedetermine the relationships between n-fold implicative hyperk-ideal and n-fold...