Increased use of cross-sectional imaging along with improved image quality and increased spatial resolution has led to an increase in the number of incidental findings (IFs) in radiology reports. Incidental findings, defined as findings that are unrelated to the clinical indication for the imaging examination performed, might pose special challenges for family physicians and their patients upon...

BACKGROUND In Western cohorts, the prevalence of incidental findings (IFs) or incidentalome, referring to variants in genes that are unrelated to the patient's primary condition, is between 0.86% and 8.8%. However, data on prevalence and type of IFs in Asian population is lacking. METHODS In 2 cohorts of individuals with genomic sequencing performed in Singapore (total n = 377), we extracted ...

1 Dept of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, U.S.A. Email: [email protected] 2 Dept of Social informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan [email protected] 3 IFS, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna A-1040, Austria, tjoa@ifs,tuwin.ac.at 4 FAW, University of Linz, Linz, Austria, [email protected] 5 TIMC IMAG Laboratory, Faculty of Medicine ...

In this paper we study the absolute continuity of self-similar measures defined by iterated function systems (IFS) whose contraction ratios are not uniform. We introduce a transversality condition for a multi-parameter family of IFS and study the absolute continuity of the corresponding self-similar measures. Our study is a natural extension of the study of Bernoulli convolutions by Solomyak, P...

In IFS fractals generated by affine transformations with arbitrary coefficients often there is a lot of chaotic noise. In the present paper we study the effect of related trigonometric coefficients on affine transformations in terms of the IFS fractals generated by them. The use of related trigonometric functions as coefficients reduces the randomness of the scatter and generates meaningful sha...

The expression of the intermediate filament (IF) protein nestin is closely associated with rapidly proliferating progenitor cells during neurogenesis and myogenesis, but little is known about its function. In this study, we examine the effects of nestin expression on the assembly state of vimentin IFs in nestin-free cells. Nestin is introduced by transient transfection and is positively correla...

We introduce the notion of weakly hyperbolic iterated function system (IFS) on a compact metric space, which generalises that of hyperbolic IFS. Based on a domain-theoretic model, which uses the Plotkin power domain and the probabilistic power domain respectively, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the attractor of a weakly hyperbolic IFS and the invariant measure of a weakly hyperbolic I...

We develop a new approach to the computation of the Hausdorff dimension of the invariant set of an iterated function system or IFS. In the one dimensional case that we consider here, our methods require only C3 regularity of the maps in the IFS. The key idea, which has been known in varying degrees of generality for many years, is to associate to the IFS a parametrized family of positive, linea...

During mitosis, several types of intermediate-sized filaments (IFs) undergo an extensive remodelling in response to phosphorylation by cdc 2 and other protein kinases. However, unlike the nuclear lamins, the cytoplasmic IFs do not seem to follow a fixed disassembly stereotype and often retain their physical continuity without depolymerizing into soluble subunits. To investigate potential intera...

Thread cell differentiation in the slime gland of the Pacific hagfish Eptatretus stouti has been studied using light microscopy and scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Thread cell differentiation is remarkable in that the life history of the cell is largely dedicated to the production of a single, tapered, cylindrical, highly coiled, and precisely packaged cytoplasmic thread that may...