DNA analysis is increasingly used to identify the remains of victims of conflicts and disasters. This is especially true in cases where remains are badly damaged and fragmented, or where antemortem records are unavailable. Incidental findings (IFs)-that is, genetics-related information for which investigators were not looking-may result from these identification efforts employing DNA analysis. ...

Intermediate filament (IF) proteins upregulation is a hallmark of astrocyte activation and reactive gliosis, but its pathophysiological implications remain incompletely understood. A recently reported association between IFs and directional mobility of peptidergic vesicles allows us to hypothesize that IFs affect vesicle dynamics and exocytosis-mediated astrocyte communication with neighboring ...

Eukaryotic cells contain three cytoskeletal filament systems that exhibit very distinct assembly properties, supramolecular architectures, dynamic behaviour and mechanical properties. Microtubules and microfilaments are relatively stiff polar structures whose assembly is modulated by the state of hydrolysis of the bound nucleotide. In contrast, intermediate filaments (IFs) are more flexible apo...

Moran’s Theorem is one of the milestones in Fractal Geometry. It allows the calculation of the similarity dimension of any (strict) self-similar set lying under the open set condition. Throughout a new fractal dimension we provide in the context of fractal structures, we generalize such a classical result for attractors which are required to satisfy no separation properties.

Valuations | morphisms from (; ; e) to ((0; 1); ; 1) | are a simple generalization of Bernoulli morphisms (distributions, measures) as introduced in 4,6]. Here, we show how to generalize the notion of entropy (of a language) in order to obtain new formulae to determine the Haus-dorr dimension of fractal sets (especially in Euclidean spaces) especially deened via regular !-languages. In this way...

Several methods have been proposed to estimate theHölder exponents of signals [1, 4]. In this paper, we propose a new approach, based on a generalization of iterated functions system (IFS), which is well adapted to irregular continuous 1D signals. We also use these generalized IFS to build parsimonious models of complex signals and to perform segmentation on them. This paper is organized as fol...

The enantioselective synthesis of chiral [7]-helical dispirodihydro[2,1-c]indenofluorenes (DSF-IFs) was achieved for the first time in good yields with high er values (er up to 99 : 1). crucial step whole reaction sequence intramolecular [2+2+2] cycloaddition tethered triynediols indenofluorenediols, which catalyzed by a Rh/SEGPHOS® complex. Further transformations led corresponding DSF-IFs. pr...

In the paper, a new method for modelling trees at medium detail is presented. The method is based on a volumetric representation of trees, generated by an iterated function system (IFS). Alleviating the modeling restrictions of fractal techniques, extensions to the standard IFS are introduced. Practical aspects of modeling and rendering of trees, such as data structures and bounding volumes, ar...

Nonlinear systems, defined by a system of ODE’s, usually contain nonlinear terms. Under some circumstances these terms can be locally approximated by linear factors and by discretization can be transformed in the sequence of (hyperbolic) Iterated Function Systems (IFS). Then, this IFS generate a unique attractor that uses as a kind of characteristic set that reflects the dynamics in the vicinit...