Background: Minoxidil has been reported to inhibit in vitro fibroblast proliferation and lysyl hydroxylase activity, a key enzyme in collagen biosynthesis. These in-vitro effects proposed minoxidil to be a potential antifibrotic agent. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of minoxidil gel on wound healing procedure in a second-degree burn model in rats.  Materials and methods: Wis...

A strongly coupled, chirped Bragg grating made by sinusoidally modulating the sidewalls of a silicon waveguide is designed, fabricated, and experimentally characterized. By varying the device parameters, the operating wavelength, device bandwidth, sign (normal or anomalous), and magnitude of group-velocity dispersion may be engineered for specific photonic applications. Asymmetric Blackman apod...

With favorable penetrability to vegetation, LiDAR data is an important data source to generate high precision DEM for reconnaissance and design of railway. To avoid the limitation of the LiDAR data-processing in keeping terrain feature and to satisfy the demand of the reconnaissance and design, this paper presents a high fidelity DEM production method, which successively uses the specialized so...

A computer search was performed on all useable Mariner 10 images of Mercury for which refined camera positions and orientations are available. Over 2000 valid stereo pairs have been found. The results of this search allowed us to construct a map illustrating the available stereo coverage and the corresponding stereo height accuracy across the surface of Mercury. Examples are given to illustrate...

Inertial energy scavengers are self-contained devices which generate power from ambient motion, by electrically damping the internal motion of a suspended proof mass. There are significant challenges in converting the power generated from such devices to useable form, particularly in micro-engineered variants. This paper examines this power conversion requirement for each of the cases of electr...

The ATCOSIM speech corpus provided by Eurocontrol Experimental Centre has been validated against a list of specified checks. The validation covered completeness, formal checks and manual checks of randomly selected samples. The overall quality of the corpus is good and there should be no problem in using the corpus for speech applications. Minor improvements to the documentation have been propo...

The problem of converting human readable programming languages into executable machine representations is an old one. EBNF and Attribute grammars provide solutions, but unfortunately they have failed to contribute effectively to model-based Object Management Group (OMG) specifications. Consequently the OCL and QVT specifications provide examples of specifications with significant errors and omi...

Abstract DTU has established a single-family three-level test house in Nuuk, Greenland. The main idea of the was to have relatively small heated area but split building envelope, where ventilated space behind rain screen some areas could be used as sunroom. This paper describes process transforming architectural ideas building. Main issues been how design and ventilate screen.