According to the World Health Organization, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) (sleeping sickness) caused the loss of approximately 1.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2002. We describe the effect of HAT during 2000-2002 in Buma, a rural community near Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We used retrospective questionnaire surveys to estimate HAT-related household c...

Abstract We compute the deficiency spaces of operators form $H_A{\hat {\otimes }} I + I{\hat H_B$ , for symmetric $H_A$ and self-adjoint $H_B$ . This enables us to construct extensions (if they exist) by means von Neumann's theory. The structure this case was asserted already in Ibort et al. [Boundary dynamics driven entanglement, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 47 (38) (2014) 385301], but only proven...

Constitutive -helical membrane proteins (MPs) are assembled in membranes by means of a translocation/insertion process that involves the translocon complex (1). After release into the membrane’s bilayer fabric, a MP resides stably in a thermodynamic free energy minimum (evidence reviewed in Refs. 2 and 3). This means that the prediction of MP structure from the amino acid sequence is fundamenta...

This paper aims to address the problem of shape clustering by discovering the common structure which captures the intrinsic structural information of shapes belonging to the same cluster. It is based on a skeleton graph, named common structure skeleton graph (CSSG), which expresses possible correspondences between nodes of the individual skeletons of the cluster. To construct the CSSG, we deriv...

In this study, the shape and size differences between 30 samples of Garra rufa and Garra variabilis species captured in Tigris River were investigated by using geometric morphometric methods. According to the results of this study, there is no difference between these two species in terms of size (CS); however, they are quite different from each other in terms of shape and this difference is si...

in this work, nanostructured niti shape memory alloy with equal atomic percentage was produced through mechanical alloying. the result exhibited that after 60 h of mechanical alloying of high purity elemental powder mixtures of nickel and titanium by a planetary high-energy ball mill, the ti dissolved into ni lattice and niti (b2) phase with was obtained. the xrd investigations, sem observation...

BACKGROUND Definitive treatment for late hepatic artery thrombosis (L-HAT) is retransplantation (re-LT); however, the L-HAT-associated disease burden is poorly represented in allocation models. METHODS Graft access and transplant outcome of the re-LT experience between 2005 and 2016 was reviewed with specific focus on the L-HAT cohort in this single-center retrospective study. RESULTS Ninet...

In this paper we develop a method for the restoration of cracks on a painting. First, we detect the local minima (they can be either cracks or painting brush strokes), by using a morphological highpass operator, called top-hat transformation. The crack filling procedure must be applied only on the cracks and not on these dark brush strokes, which are also detected. In order to separate these br...

The optic disc (OD) is an important landmark of the retina and its location essential for computer-aided diagnosis diabetic retinopathy glaucoma. This paper presented a new method that applies proposed graph traversal algorithm vertical vascular infrastructure to detect root nodes representing optical discs. algorithms were designed process terrific view blood vessels from polar image without d...

In the literature, iron-oxo complexes have been isolated and their hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) reactions have been studied in detail. Iron-imido complexes have been isolated more recently, and the community needs experimental evaluations of the mechanism of HAT from late-metal imido species. We report a mechanistic study of HAT by an isolable iron(III) imido complex, L(Me)FeNAd (L(Me) = bulky ...