Three feeding trials were conducted to evaluate low-gossypol cottonseed flour as a replacement for fish meal in the diet of black sea bass and southern flounder raised in RAS. In experiment 1, diets were formulated to replace 0, 50, 75 and 100% menhaden fish meal protein (FMP) by glandless cottonseed flour protein (GCP) and solvent-extracted cottonseed flour protein (SCP), and to replace 100% F...

Cartosat-1 satellite, launched on 5 May 2005, is designed to deliver high-resolution spatial data of better than 2.5m in stereo with ~27 km swath. The twin panchromatic cameras (Fore & Aft), with a fixed base-to-height ratio 0.62, image the terrain through alongtrack stereo almost simultaneously. The primary mission goal of this Indian satellite is to generate Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of a...

The use of small UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) with Multi-View Stereopsis (MVS) for acquiring survey datasets is now commonplace, however, aspects of the SfM-MVS workflow require further validation. This work aims to provide guidance for scientists seeking to adopt this aerial survey method by investigating aerial survey data quality in relation to the applicatio...

In this paper we present a hybrid technique that applies a genetic algorithm followed by wisdom of artificial crowds approach to solving the graph-coloring problem. The genetic algorithm described here utilizes more than one parent selection and mutation methods depending on the state of fitness of its best solution. This results in shifting the solution to the global optimum more quickly than ...

An equitable k-coloring of an undirected graph G = (V,E) is a partition of its vertices into k disjoint independent sets, such that the cardinalities of any two independent sets differ by at most one. As a variant of the graph coloring problem (GCP), the equitable coloring problem (ECP) concerns finding a minimum k for which an equitable k-coloring exists. In this work, we propose a backtrackin...

This paper introduces the updated plans for sensor calibration and product validation of the Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping (PRISM), which is to fly on the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) satellite that will be launched this Japanese fiscal year. PRISM is used to derive digital elevation models (DEMs) with very high spatial resolution, which is also one of th...

To analyze the role of Toll-like receptors (TLR) in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis, we have assessed the effects of stimulation of cultured synovial fibroblasts by the TLR-2 ligand bacterial peptidoglycan. By using high density oligonucleotide microarray analysis we identified 74 genes that were up-regulated >2.5-fold. Fourteen CC and CXC chemokine genes were among the genes with the ...

We tested the hypothesis that endogenous N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG) presynaptically inhibits glutamate release at mossy fiber-CA3 synapses. For this purpose, we made use of 2-(3-mercaptopropyl)pentanedioic acid (2-MPPA), an inhibitor of glutamate carboxypeptidase II [GCP II; also known as N-acetylated alpha-linked acidic dipeptidase (NAALADase)], the enzyme that hydrolyzes NAAG into N-ace...