The iron uptake and utilization pathways play a critical role in allowing human pathogens, including Cryptococcus neoformans, the causative agent of fatal meningoencephalitis, to survive within the mammalian body by competing with the host for iron. Here we show that the iron regulon is also required for diverse environmental stress responses and that in C. neoformans, it is regulated by the hi...

In this paper, a new approach is proposed to extract features from the dorsal hand vein pattern. The modified Weber Local Binary Pattern (WLBP) is feature descriptor extracted, which effectively combines the advantages of WLD and LBP. WLBP feature vector consists of two components: Differential Excitation and LBP. The Differential excitation component derived based on Weber's law, which extract...

This paper presents a pedestrian detection method from a moving vehicle using optical flows and histogram of oriented gradients (HOG). A moving object is extracted from the relative motion by segmenting the region representing the same optical flows after compensating the egomotion of the camera. To obtain the optical flow, two consecutive images are divided into grid cells 14 × 14 pixels; then...

HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients) is one of the effective ways for extracting feature values. Also, Real Adaboost algorithm has high recognition ratio, and it is adequate to hardware implementation. Many researches on human detection systems adopted these two algorithms and had achieved progress. However, data volume of HOG feature is still a problem in the whole system. Data volume from on...

Spleen cells from mice immunized with partially purified hog kidney renin were fused with mouse myeloma cells to produce a stable monoclonal hybridoma cell line that synthesizes an antibody against renin. A single monoclonal antibody was chosen for study and has been produced in large quantity and purified by affinity chromatography on protein A-Sepharose. The antirenin, which belongs to the Ig...

3D object retrieval has received much research attention during the last years. To automatically determine the similarity between 3D objects, the global descriptor approach is very popular, and many competing methods for extracting global descriptors have been proposed to date. However, no single descriptor has yet shown to outperform all other descriptors on all retrieval benchmarks or benchma...

The present investigation was undertaken to establish anatomical norms on gross anatomical study of skull of adult Pygmy hog. In the present investigation, three adult Pygmyhog were utilized. The skull was macerated and processed. The skull of Pygmy hog has frontal, lateral, nuchal and basal surfaces. The frontal surface of the skull was formed by the parietal, frontal, nasal, parts of the maxi...

When confronted with a marked increase in external osmolarity, budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cells utilize a conserved mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade (the high-osmolarity glycerol or HOG pathway) to elicit cellular responses necessary to permit continued growth. One input that stimulates the HOG pathway requires the integral membrane protein and putative os...

<span>Handwriting recognition is a growing field of study in computer vision, artificial intelligence and pattern technology aimed to recognizing texts handwritings hefty amount produced official documents paper works by institutes or governments. Using distinguish make these accessible approachable the goal efforts. Moreover, text has accomplished practically major progress many domains ...

North Carolina's swine industry is among the largest in the nation, second only to that of Iowa. By far, most of the hogs produced in North Carolina are raised in large industrial facilities with thousands of animals each. These operations have prompted concerns about noxious odors and potentially hazardous air emissions. Steve Wing, an associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Publi...