An automatic anatomy segmentation method is proposed which effectively combines the Active Appearance Model, Live Wire and Graph Cut (ALG) ideas to exploit their complementary strengths. It consists of three main parts: model building, initialization, and delineation. For the initialization (recognition) part, a pseudo strategy is employed and the organs are segmented slice by slice via the OAA...

Alginate (Alg) is increasingly studied as a constitutive material of scaffolds for tissue engineering because its easy gelation and biocompatibility, the incorporation drugs into formulation allows functionality to be extended. However, Alg presents low cell adhesion proliferation capacity, may further reduce biocompatibility. Layered double hydroxides (LDH) are promising fillers Alg-based biom...

Objective(s): It is proposed that particulate antigens could better interact with the antigen presenting cells (APCs). A fast, simple and scalable process for preparation of polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) is coating of charged antigenic particles, like viruses, with oppositely charged polymers. A second coating with a charged polymer could increase the stability and modify the immunomodulatory p...

BACKGROUND A need exists, from both a clinical and a research standpoint, for objective sleep measurement systems that are both easy to use and can accurately assess sleep and wake. This study evaluates the output of an automated sleep-wake detection algorithm (Z-ALG) used in the Zmachine (a portable, single-channel, electroencephalographic [EEG] acquisition and analysis system) against laborat...

Yerel halk?n turizm geli?imine verece?i destek destinasyonlar?n sürdürülebilir ba?ar?s? için gereklidir. halk belirli faktörlerin etkisi alt?nda geli?imini olumlu ya da olumsuz alg?layabilir. Bu etkili faktörlere yer ba?l?l???, toplum kat?l?m?, yerlilik, ikamet süresi, çevresel tutum, ya?am tatmini, imaj, demografik özellikler vb. örnek verilebilir. çal??man?n amac? yerel verdikleri deste?e ili...

This work aimed at the development of biodegradable nanocapsules as carriers of two bioactive compounds, 5-aminosalycilic acid and glycomacropeptide. Nanocapsules were produced through layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of chitosan (CH) and alginate (ALG) layers on polystyrene nanoparticles. The bioactive compounds were incorporated on the third layer of the nanocapsules being its encapsulation ef...

Wound dressings play important roles in the management of wounds, and calcium cross-linked alginate (Ca2+-Alg) is a commonly used hydrogel that is adapted for wound treatment. However, conventional methods for fabricating Ca2+-Alg hydrogels can be tedious and difficult to control because of the rapid Ca2+-induced gelation of alginate. In this study, An electrodeposition method was used to rapid...

This talk is a contribution towards the project of developing discrete representability for the algebraic semantics of various non-classical logics. Discrete duality is a type of duality where a class of abstract relational systems is a dual counterpart to a class of algebras. These relational systems are referred to as ‘frames’ following the terminology of non-classical logics. There is no top...

Categories of lax (T, V )-algebras are shown to have pullbackstable coproducts if T preserves inverse images. The general result not only gives a common proof of this property in many topological categories but also shows that important topological categories, like the category of uniform spaces, are not presentable as a category of lax (T, V )-algebras, with T preserving inverse images. Moreov...