This study investigates the characteristics of total lightning in the inner core (INCO, 0–100 km) and outer rainband (OB, 200–400 km) of tropical cyclones (TC). Relationships between flash density (FLD), convective intensity, and TC intensity change are further examined. FLD shows a bimodal structure with a strong maximum in the eyewall (INCO, 0–50 km) and a secondary maximum in the OB. FLD max...

Probiotics such as lactic acid bacteria directly influence the host's health and have beneficial effects such as decreasing the number of enteric pathogens, regulating intestinal immune responses and preventing diseases. Among domestic animals, probiotics have been expected to be an alternative to antibiotics added in the diet; and fermented liquid diet (FLD) containing probiotics has great pot...

BACKGROUND Fatty liver disease (FLD) including non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a rapidly emerging and widely recognized liver disease today, is regarded as a hepatic manifestation of metabolic syndrome. Helicobacter pylori, one of the most common pathogens worldwide, has been reported to be associated with metabolic syndrome, but whether there is a direct association with FLD is as o...

1 FLD for binary classification 3 1.1 Idea: what is far apart? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2 Translation to mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Scatter vs. covariance matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4 The two scatter matrices and the FLD objective . . . . . . . . . 7 1.5 The optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

In order to improve the rate of facial expression recognition. The Gabor wavelet fusion PCA+FLD method is proposed as a new method this paper. Firstly, face image preprocessing, and then carries on the two-dimensional wavelet transform Gabor, first constructed five scale eight directional wavelet filter, through the PCA+FLD method for dimensionality reduction, and finally obtaining an optimum e...

A personality and behavioral disorder is an important and defining feature of frontal lobe dementia (FLD) or frontotemporal degeneration (FTD). The diagnosis usually depends on the progressive development of various behavioral symptoms rather than a set of neuropsychological measures. Quantification of the personality-behavior disorder is important for standardizing the diagnosis. An inventory ...

Introduction.......................................................................................... 52 I. Frontal Lobe Brain Dysfunction (“FLD”) and Criminality......... 54 A. Causes and Symptoms of FLD................................................ 57 B. The Role of FLD in Criminal Behavior ................................. 67 II. Admissibility of FLD Evidence.................................

Lipid droplet proteins (LDPs) coat the surface of triglyceride-rich lipid droplets and regulate their formation and lipolysis. We profiled hepatic LDP expression in fatty liver dystrophic (fld) mice, a unique model of neonatal hepatic steatosis that predictably resolves between postnatal day 14 (P14) and P17. Western blotting revealed that perilipin-2/ADRP and perilipin-5/OXPAT were markedly in...

During the high-performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) analysis of o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA)-derivatized amino acids such as arginine and homoarginine, we observed that the response of the fluorescence detection (FLD) system is decreased when the photodiode array detection (DAD) system (located before the FLD system) was simultaneously switched on. The decrease in the FLD response, i.e., the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Serum KL-6 (Krebs von den Lungen-6) has been recognized to be a marker for the activity of diffuse interstitial lung diseases. The purpose of the study is to evaluate serum KL-6 measurement as a marker for farmer's lung disease (FLD). DESIGN A cross-sectional survey of a cohort of dairy farmers. Retrospective measurement of KL-6 stored serum samples from those dairy farmers p...