Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells were first generated by forced expression of transcription factors (TFs) in fibroblasts. Recently, iPS cells have been generated more rapidly and efficiently using miRNAs with or without other transcription factors. However, the specific and collaborative roles of miRNAs and transcription factors in pluripotency acquisition and maintenance remain to be furth...

bstract. Viewing angle performance in in-plane switching liquid rystal displays (IPS-LCDs) has been greatly improved, using two echnologies. One is optical compensation technology using a biaxal film. The other is a newly developed IPS-Pro cell structure with igher transmission efficiency. These technologies are successfully ntroduced into the fabrication of 32-in. IPS-LCDs with a minimum ontra...

We are interested in a notion of elementary change between triangulations of a point connguration, the so-called bistellar ips, introduced by Gel'fand, Kapranov and Zelevinski. We construct sequences of triangulations of point conngurations in dimension 3 with n 2 +2n+2 vertices and only 4n?3 geometric bistellar ips (for every even integer n), and of point conngurations in dimension 4 with arbi...

For a large class of inhomogeneous interacting particle systems (IPS) on a lattice we develop a rigorous method for mapping them onto homogeneous IPS. Our novel approach provides a direct way of obtaining the statistical properties of such inhomogeneous systems by studying the far simpler homogeneous systems. In the cases when the latter can be solved exactly our method yields an exact solution...

A recently introduced particle filtering method, called LS-N-IPS, is considered for tracking objects on video sequences. LS-N-IPS is a computationally efficient particle filter that performs better than the standard N-IPS particle filter, when observations are highly peaky, as it is the case of visual object tracking problems with good observation models. An implementation of LS-N-IPS that uses...

Cell loss after transplantation is a major limitation for cell replacement approaches in regenerative medicine. To assess the survival kinetics of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CM) we generated transgenic murine iPSC lines which, in addition to CM-specific expression of puromycin N-acetyl-transferase and enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP), also constitutive...

BACKGROUND The value of the individual placement and support (IPS) programme in helping people with severe mental illness gain open employment is unknown in Europe. Our aim was to assess the effectiveness of IPS, and to examine whether its effect is modified by local labour markets and welfare systems. METHODS 312 patients with severe mental illness were randomly assigned in six European cent...

Whether mathematical and linguistic processes share the same neural mechanisms has been a matter of controversy. By examining various sentence structures, we recently demonstrated that activations in the left inferior frontal gyrus (L. IFG) and left supramarginal gyrus (L. SMG) were modulated by the Degree of Merger (DoM), a measure for the complexity of tree structures. In the present study, w...

The intraparietal sulcus (IPS) contains topographically organized regions, similar to retinotopic maps in visual cortex. These regions, referred to as IPS1-4, show similar functional responses to the mapping tasks used to define them, yet differing responses to tests of other posterior parietal cortex (PPC) functions such as short-term memory, eye movements and object viewing, suggesting that t...

Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are at the forefront of research in regenerative medicine and are envisaged as a source for personalized tissue repair and cell replacement therapy. Here, we demonstrate for the first time that oligodendrocyte progenitors (OPs) can be derived from iPS cells generated using either an episomal, non-integrating plasmid approach or standard integrating retroviru...