conclusions physicians should be aware of this rare site of metastasis. early diagnosis is of paramount importance in order to effectively prevent the significant morbidity this condition can cause if left untreated. introduction small cell carcinoma constitutes the most aggressive type of lung cancer, with the greatest propensity for early disseminated disease. although commonly neglected due ...

Eukaryotic 26S proteasomes are structurally organized to recognize, unfold and degrade globular proteins. However, all existing model substrates of the 26S proteasome in addition to ubiquitin or adaptor proteins require unstructured regions in the form of fusion tags for efficient degradation. We report for the first time that purified 26S proteasome can directly recognize and degrade apomyoglo...

An iris based biometric recognition system provides identification of an individual based on a unique feature or characteristic possessed by that individual. Iris recognition is consider as the most reliable and accurate biometric identification system. In this paper we explore the performance of the iris based recognition system. We take iris image of ten different people and after segmentatio...

We recently conducted experiments where 24 seated participants were subjected (with eyes closed) to small amplitude, high-jerk impulses of linear acceleration. Responses were distributed as a continuum between two extremes. The "stiff" participants showed little movement of the head relative to the trunk, whereas the "floppy" participants showed a large head rotation in the direction opposite t...

An iris recognition system uses the iris to distinguish the identity of a person using the rich iris texture feature. To effectively remove noise and precisely segment the stable iris region is a crucial stage prior to recognition. Most noises on iris images are caused by occlusion of eyelids or eyelashes in certain areas. In this paper, we propose an iris recognition system which precisely loc...

Biometrics deals with identification of individuals based on their biological or behavioral characteristics. Iris recognition is one of the robust biometric technologies used for personal identification. Iris recognition includes image acquisition, segmentation, normalization, feature extraction and matching. Firstly, an iris image is acquired from CASIA database. Segmentation is used for the l...

BACKGROUND In a proportion of patients with HIV-associated tuberculosis who develop paradoxical immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), the clinical course of IRIS is prolonged necessitating substantial health care utilization for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Prolonged TB-IRIS has not been prospectively studied to date. We aimed to determine the proportion of patients w...

ethanolic crude extract of i. imbricata lindl. (iridaceae) was subjected to column chromatography on silica gel with varying portions of meoh: chcl3. nigicin (irisolone) was isolated and its identification carried out by ir, uv, ms, 1-d and 2-d nmr spectroscopy.

Since iris muscles control the size of the pupil, iris pattern shown in a captured iris image deforms significantly during pupil dilation/constriction. Daugman-based approaches assume the iris deformation is linear when mapping the iris to the polar rectangular format. However, iris deformation is not linear and in fact differs from person to person. To cope with the non-linear iris deformation...