ISO 20462, a three-part standard entitled “Psychophysical experimental methods to estimate image quality,” is being developed by WG18 (Electronic Still Picture Imaging) of TC42 (Photography). As of late 2003, all three parts were in the Draft International Standard (DIS) ballot stage, with publication likely during 2004. This standard describes two novel perceptual methods, the triplet comparis...

La tercera edición de la Tabla Cronoestratigráfica del Cuaderno península ibérica (v 3.0) sustituye a las versiones más antiguas editadas en 2007 1.0) y 2009 2.0). Desde esta fecha Comisión Internacional Estratigrafía (ICS), concretamente Subcomisión Cuaternario (SQS), ha estado trabajando tanto definición Periodo como sus subdivisiones, aportando nuevos GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Poin...

Abstract This contribution presents the laser infrastructure concept of Soft X-ray Port (SXP) instrument at European Free Electron Laser (XFEL) for day one operation. scientific platform is conceived as an open port complementing scope other two, already operating baseline instruments SASE 3 soft x-ray undulator focusing on atomic, molecular and non-linear optical (SQS) well condensed matter ph...

Summary The latent structure of psychodynamic and psychological personality models: Conjoint investigation OPD-CQ, OPD-SQS BFI-2 Objectives: Meanwhile, self-report questionnaires for the assessment conflict as aspects have been developed. References to Big Five model, which is becoming more important due ongoing paradigm shift in medical classification systems disorders, are still unclear. Meth...

OBJECTIVES To study the antiproliferative effects of ER119884 and E5700, two quinuclidine-based inhibitors of squalene synthase (SQS), against Toxoplasma gondii tachyzoites in epithelial cells. METHODS The antiproliferative effects of the quinuclidine derivatives, alone or in combination with epiminolanosterol or antifolates, were analysed, resulting in the construction of isobolograms. The u...

A softcopy quality ruler method was implemented for the International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) Camera Phone Image Quality (CPIQ) Initiative. This work extends ISO 20462 Part 3 by virtue of creating reference digital images of known subjective image quality, complimenting the hardcopy Standard Reference Stimuli (SRS). The softcopy ruler method was developed using images from a Canon EO...

BACKGROUND Research on questionnaires as screening tools for psychiatric disorders has yielded conflicting results. AIM To examine the effect of a routinely administered questionnaire on recognition of common psychiatric disorders in general practice. DESIGN OF STUDY Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Twenty-eight general practices in Aarhus County, Denmark. METHOD Thirty-eight genera...

Numerous data intensive applications demand the efficient processing of a new type of query, which is called a progressive query (PQ). A PQ consists of a set of unpredictable but inter-related step-queries (SQ) that are specified by its user in a sequence of steps. A conventional DBMS was not designed to efficiently process such PQs. In our earlier work, we introduced a materialized view based ...

When people perform a task as part of a joint action, their behavior is not the same as it would be if they were performing the same task alone, since it has to be adapted to facilitate shared understanding (or sometimes to prevent it). Joint performance of music offers a test bed for ecologically valid investigations of the way non-verbal behavior facilitates joint action. Here we compare the ...

Mogrosides and steroid saponins are tetracyclic triterpenoids found in Siraitia grosvenorii. Squalene synthase (SQS) and cycloartenol synthase (CAS) are key enzymes in triterpenoid and steroid biosynthesis. In this study, full-length cDNAs of SgSQS and SgCAS were cloned by a rapid amplification of cDNA-ends with polymerase chain reaction (RACE-PCR) approach. The SgSQS cDNA has a 1254 bp open re...