Biometry is currently a very active area of research spanning several sub-disciplines such as image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision. The main goal of biometry is to build systems that can identify people from some observable characteristics such as their face, fingerprints, iris, etc. Facial recognition is the identification of humans by the unique characteristics of their ...

Shigellosis, which is characterized by diarrhea and dysentery, is a worldwide human health problem caused by the Shigella group of bacteria (Niyogi, 2005). These bacteria produce a toxin, Shiga toxin, that is comprised of two components referred to as A and B, in which the A subunit is the enzymatically active toxin responsible for inactivation of the 28s ribosomal RNA, and the B subunit is req...

Synaptic plasticity at excitatory synapses in the brain is largely achieved by rapid changes in the number of synaptic -amino3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptors. Stargazin, a membrane protein that interacts with AMPA receptors, is believed to play a pivotal role in trafficking AMPA receptors to the plasma membrane and targeting them to the synapse. However, it is unclear ...

4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 7-11 june 2004 –Montpellier, France Edited by C. Godin et al., pp. 235-238 Growth simulation of eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) using LIGNUM model incorporating real weather data Miaoer Lu, Pekka Nygren, Jari Perttunen, Stephen G. Pallardy, Kannappan Palaniappan Center for Agroforestry, 203 Natural Resources Building, Univ...

The cytoskeleton in higher eukaryotes is composed of three major filament classes: actin, microtubules and intermediate filaments (IFs). Together with associated proteins, these filaments establish the internal architecture of cells. Of these three filament systems, the least is known about IF assembly characteristics and functional roles in vivo (for reviews see Steinert and Roop, 1988; Klymko...

Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 8385 | 8385 Cite this:Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 8385 Correction: A new chiral C1-symmetric NHC-catalyzed addition to a-aryl substituted a,b-disubstituted enals: enantioselective synthesis of fully functionalized dihydropyranones Hong Lu, Jin-Yu Liu, Chen-Guang Li, Jun-Bing Lin, Yong-Min Liang and Peng-Fei Xu* Correction for ‘A new chiral C1-symmetric NHC-catalyzed additi...

The recent article by Wang et al. (2012a) was highly interesting. Interestingly, recent data suggests that Skp2 expression may play a significant role in the etio-pathogenesis of a number of systemic malignancies besides breast carcinomas. For instance, the expression of Skp2 in prostate cancers is decreased by androgens and is mediated via pathways that are dependent on p107 as well as pathway...

In the past, and still today, people living in the developing world have been, and continue to be, repeatedly exposed to a number of endemic parasitic diseases which impose an intolerable economic, health and social burden on their societies (Stoll, 1947; Sachs and Malaney, 2002). Among the parasitic diseases, malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum inflicts the largest burden (Snow et al., 2005)....