Address for correspondence: Dr. Devendra Shrestha Department of Paediatrics, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal. Email: [email protected] Tel No; +977-9851108123 1Dr. Devendra Shrestha, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, KIST Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Imadol, Lalitpur, Nepal, 2Dr. Ajaya Kumar Dhakal, Lecturer, Department of Pa...

Losing the Will: Automatic Reactions to the Indifference Perceived in Others by Nils Pontus Leander Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ James Y. Shah, Supervisor ___________________________ Tanya L. Chartrand ___________________________ Mark R. Leary ___________________________ Gavan J. Fitzsimons _________...

EXPLAINING DISCREPANT FINDINGS FOR PERFORMANCE-APPROACH GOALS: THE ROLE OF EMOTION REGULATION DURING TEST TAKING Diana F. Tyson Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_____________________ Approved: ___________________________ Nancy E. Hill, Ph.D., Committee Chair __________________________ Harris Cooper, Ph.D. __________________________ Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Ph.D. __...

Metabolic Pathways of Type 2 Diabetes Intersection of Genetics, Transcriptomics, and Metabolite Profiling by Christine Therese Ferrara Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Christopher Newgard, Supervisor ___________________________ Donald McDonnell ___________________________ Deborah Muoio ______________...

Abstract. The functionality of the visual cortex has been described in [63] and in [50] as a contact manifold of dimension three and in [62] the Mumford and Shah functional has been proposed to segment lifting of an image in the three dimensional cortical space. Hence, we study here this functional and we provide a constructive approach to the problem, extending to the subRiemannian setting an ...

A long-standing conjecture of Stanley states that every Cohen– Macaulay simplicial complex is partitionable. We disprove the conjecture by constructing an explicit counterexample. Due to a result of Herzog, Jahan and Yassemi, our construction also disproves the conjecture that the Stanley depth of a monomial ideal is always at least its depth.

In PNAS, Jahan et al. (1) describe a new role for the ubiquitin-specific protease 12 (USP12) deubiquitinase in T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling. Among other findings, the authors report that USP12 is exported from the nucleus to the cytosol upon TCR activation. Although the experimental evidence they provide is consistent with this model, I believe that some of their results would require a more...

Chair: Meeta Co-Chairs: Leela Digumarti, Neelam Agarwal, Nirmala Vaze, Rashmi Shah, Sonia Malik. Advisory Board: Asha Kapadia, Atul Munshi, Duru Shah, Rama Vaidya, Saroj Srivastava, Sonia Malik, Sunila Khandelwal, Urvashi Prasad Jha. External Review Board: Anita Gadgil, Dayasagar, G R Sridhar, Hema Divakar, P K Shah, Rakesh Sahay, Sanjay Kalra. Resource Faculty: Alka Kumar, Anil Mahajan, Ani...

Abstract. The Mumford-Shah model is one of the most important image segmentation models, and has been studied extensively in the last twenty years. In this paper, we propose a two-stage segmentation method based on the Mumford-Shah model. The first stage of our method is to find a smooth solution g to a convex variant of the Mumford-Shah model. Once g is obtained, then in the second stage, the ...