Most of the computer applications use digital images. Digital image processing acts an important role in the analysis and interpretation of data, which is in the digital form. Images and videos of outdoor scenes are mainly affected by the bad weather conditions such as haze, fog, mist etc. It will result in poor visibility of the scene caused by the lack of quality. It will make awful impact on...

During Drosophila gastrulation, mesodermal precursors are brought into the interior of the embryo by formation of the ventral furrow. The first steps of ventral furrow formation involve a flattening of the apical surface of the presumptive mesodermal cells and a constriction of their apical diameters. In embryos mutant for folded gastrulation (fog), these cell shape changes occur but the timing...

Somatic and germline sex determination pathways have diverged significantly in animals, making comparisons between taxa difficult. To overcome this difficulty, we compared the genes in the germline sex determination pathways of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae, two Caenorhabditis species with similar reproductive systems and sequenced genomes. We demonstrate that C. briggsae has orthologs...

The mountain cloud forest of Taiwan can be delimited from other forest types using a map of the ground fog frequency. In order to create such a frequency map from remotely sensed data, an algorithm able to detect ground fog is necessary. Common techniques for ground fog detection based on weather satellite data cannot be applied to fog occurrences in Taiwan as they rely on several assumptions r...

While freezing of gait (FOG) is typically considered a motor impairment, the fact that it occurs more frequently in confined spaces suggests that perception of space might contribute to FOG. The present study evaluated how doorway size influenced characteristics of gait that might be indicative of freezing. Changes in spatiotemporal aspects of gait were evaluated while walking through three dif...

A multizinc finger protein, FOG-2, associates with a cardiac transcription factor, GATA-4, and represses GATA-4-dependent transcription. GATA-4 is required not only for normal heart development but is also involved in hypertrophic responses in cardiac myocytes; however, the effects of FOG-2 on these responses are unknown. The interaction of GATA-4 with a transcriptional coactivator p300 is requ...

Terrestrial Free-space optical communication (FSO) links have yet to achieve a mass market success due to the ever elusive 99.999% availability requirement. The terrestrial FSO links are heavily affected by atmospheric fog. To design systems which can achieve high availability and reliability in the presence of fog, accurate and better models of fog attenuation need to be developed. The current...

Background: Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common, poorly understood, parkinsonian symptom interfering with daily functioning and quality of life. Assessment of FOG is complex because of the episodic nature of this symptom, and the influence of mental and environmental factors on it. Objective: To design a self-reportable reliable questionnaire for FOG. Method: A questionnaire consisting of 16 ite...

Lane coloration has become popular in real time vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). The main emphasis of this paper is to find the further ways which can be used further to improve the result of lane detection algorithms. Noise, visibility etc. can reduce the performance or the existing lane detection algorithms. The methods developed so far are working efficiently and giving good results in ca...

Received Feb 23, 2017 Revised Jun 29, 2017 Accepted Jul 19, 2017 The evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) brought about several challenges for the existing Hardware, Network and Application development. Some of these are handling real-time streaming and batch bigdata, realtime event handling, dynamic cluster resource allocation for computation, Wired and Wireless Network of Things etc. In orde...