Images (for example, photomicrographs) are routinely used as qualitative evidence of the microstructure of foods. In quantitative image analysis it is important to estimate the area (or volume) to be sampled, the field of view, and the resolution. The bootstrap method is proposed to estimate the size of the sampling area as a function of the coefficient of variation (CV(Bn)) and standard error ...

BACKGROUND Pre-transplant cardiovascular (CV) risk factors affect the development of CV events even after successful kidney transplantation (KT). However, the impact of pre-transplant CV risk factors on allograft failure (GF) has not been reported. METHODS AND FINDINGS We analyzed the graft outcomes of 2,902 KT recipients who were enrolled in a multi-center cohort from 1997 to 2012. We calcul...

To compare the progression of posterior capsule opacification (PCO) in patients who required Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy following either combined cataract surgery with pars plana vitrectomy (PPV; C-CV), sequential cataract surgery after PPV (S-CV), or cataract surgery alone (CA). The medical records of 321 patients (408 eyes) who underwent Nd:YAG capsulotomy were retrospectively evaluated. The CA...

Several reports described an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events, mainly atherothrombotic, in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) patients receiving nilotinib. However, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. The objective of the current cross-sectional retrospective study is to address a potential correlation between Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs) treatment and CV events. One hundred ...

This paper addresses the issues in the recognition of the most frequently occurring Consonant-Vowel (CV) units of speech in Indian languages. Two major issues in the recognition of CV units are the large number of CV classes and high similarity among several CV units. In this paper, we propose two level acoustic models comprising of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Support Vector Machines (SVM) t...

Variable ventilation (VV), characterized by breath-to-breath variation of tidal volume (Vt) and breathing rate (f), has been shown to improve lung mechanics and blood oxygenation during acute lung injury in many species compared with conventional ventilation (CV), characterized by constant Vt and f. During CV as well as VV, the lungs of mice tend to collapse over time; therefore, the goal of th...

An articulatory study was conducted to explore effects of prosodic boundary and syllable structure on temporal realizations of /ma/ in C♯V vs. ♯CV in Korean (where ‘♯’ denotes an Intonational Phrase or a Word boundary). The vocalic gesture underwent boundary-induced lengthening more in C♯V than in ♯CV, implying that the boundary effect is largely localized to the initial element whether consona...

Members of the Rho family of small GTPases are required for many of the morphogenetic processes required to shape the animal body. The activity of this family is regulated in part by a class of proteins known as RhoGTPase Activating Proteins (RhoGAPs) that catalyse the conversion of RhoGTPases to their inactive state. In our search for genes that regulate Drosophila morphogenesis, we have isola...

Contingent valuation (CV) is a method to appraise the benefits a society receives from public goods. CV surveys have become a popular way of estimating monetary value on non-marketed goods. CV method first came into use in the early 1960’s (Davis, 1963). A large number of research studies have used CV to estimate the value of investment projects aimed at the welfare of society. In this article ...

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular (CV) diseases and bone fractures due to osteoporosis are the leading causes of death in the elderly. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to demonstrate a correlation between the overall risk for CV events, and low bone density in postmenopausal women, and its impact on the incidence of serious CV events. METHODS Our prospective study involved 300 postmenopausal w...