In this paper, we present a methodology that uses a deformable template to detect the human eye in static images. Geometrically, the used template is represented by two distinct entities: a circumference, that defines the iris contour; and two parabolas, one concave and other convex, that define respectively, the above and below contours of the eye. The geometrical shape of the used template is...

this mini review article, intends to provide the essential information about microemulsion technique as a reliable approach toward the synthesis of zeolitic nano crystallites. the strategy discussed here provides a unique, effective, and potentially general methodology to the preparation of uniform and high purity nano crystallites of template-free zeolitic materials including lta, faujasite ty...

Dopfer and Potts (2008) have proposed a new analytic foundation to evolutionary economics based on the unified rule approach. While they contend that their approach is ontologically and analytically coherent and useful, scholars sympathetic with it, e.g., Ostrom and Basurto (2011), have called for further methodological and empirical specification. In the same vein, this paper seeks to develop ...

Structured parallel programming is one of the possible solutions to exploit Pro-grammability, Portability and Performance in the parallel programming world. Programming using high level parallel constructs permits the programmer to focus on the development of the parallel algorithms rather than on their low level implementation. The power of this approach stands in the possibility of modeling t...

Performing kinetic analysis of [C]raclopride PET data typically involves user intervention to identify key volumes of interest, such as the cerebellum for the reference region and the caudate and putamen for regions where the binding potential (BP) needs to be estimated. In many PET centres, this process is neither automated nor standardized, possibly producing discrepancies between centres. Co...

We describe predictions made using the Rosetta structure prediction methodology for the Eighth Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction. Aggressive sampling and all-atom refinement were carried out for nearly all targets. A combination of alignment methodologies was used to generate starting models from a range of templates, and the models were then subjected to Rosett...

The standard methodology for titrating dengue viruses, the plaque assay, is slow, time consuming and relatively expensive. Other methods require machinery that may not be routinely accessible to all researchers, particularly those in developing nations. We therefore sought to develop a rapid, simplified semiquantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methodology based on the use of a template ...

We developed a robust and reproducible methodology to amplify human sequences in parallel for use in downstream multiplexed sequence analyses. We call the methodology SMART (Spacer Multiplex Amplification Reaction), and it is based, in part, on padlock probe technology. As a proof of principle, we used SMART technology to simultaneously amplify 485 human exons ranging from 100 to 500 bp from hu...

a straightforward approach for the extraction of the quercetin was carried out by a nanoporous molecularly imprinted acrylic acid-based network copolymer as asolid sorbent. this technique involves a molecular template (quercetin) which is surrounded by functional monomers and are subsequently co-polymerized in the presence of an excess of the cross linkers. in this process, three-dimensional bi...

Accurate prediction of DNA-binding residues has become a problem of increasing importance in structural bioinformatics. Here, we presented DNABind, a novel hybrid algorithm for identifying these crucial residues by exploiting the complementarity between machine learning- and template-based methods. Our machine learning-based method was based on the probabilistic combination of a structure-based...