Kam-yiu Lam, Edward Chan and Joe Chun-Hung Yuen Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Hong Kong Fax: 852-2788-8614 Email: {cskylam|csedchan|csjyuen}@cityu.edu.hk Abstract. Although data broadcast has been shown to be an efficient data dissemination technique for mobile computing systems, many issues such as selection of broadcast data and cachin...

With twenty-five G-protein-coupled TAS2R receptors bitterness is the most complex taste sensation in terms of signal transduction. The objective of this sensory study was to investigate the effect of hTAS2R38 bitter receptor gene genotypes on intensity of bitterness of different N-C=S containing compounds. In addition, we studied the bitterness of vegetables that produce glucosinolates, which a...

Arterial stiffness is widely used in assessing arteriosclerosis in the background of increased cardiovascular events. Arteriosclerosis also causes reduction in exercise capacity, which is a most important prognostic factor in patients with cardiovascular disease; however, data on the association between arterial stiffness and exercise capacity are limited. Therefore, a simple and noninvasive me...

Phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers (PMO) inhibit targeted gene expression by preventing ribosomal assembly, thereby preventing mRNA translation. AVI-4126, a PMO targeted against c-MYC, has been extensively characterized in multiple cancer and other disease models and is currently in human clinical trials. A phase I clinical study was conducted to address the issue of PMO bioavailability in...

BACKGROUND Prevention and early detection of arterial stiffness are required to avoid severe cardiovascular events. Recently, new noninvasive arterial stiffness indices, the arterial pressure volume index (API) and the arterial velocity pulse index (AVI), have been developed. The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical validity of these new indices by investigating the association bet...

With technology of digital image recognition, the data frames include vehicle’s digital image can be detected automatically from an Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) File, and vehicle type will be recognized automatically. The system consists of four modules: Reading AVI file and decomposing it into digital image frames; Motion detection; Vehicle’s digital image processing; Module of vehicle type c...

Extending the characterization of the directional derivatives of a strongly regular solution to a variational inequality under parameter perturbations, this paper derives a first-order sensitivity result for a monotone-plus affine variational inequality (AVI) having non-isolated solutions. The result employs a “directional AVI” whose solutions provide the directional derivatives, if they exist,...

In the last decades, several automated visual inspection (AVI) systems have been developed and applied to a wide range of products, including wood (Pham and Alcock 2003). AVI is an automated form of quality control normally achieved using a camera connected to a computer. The AVI framework includes five processing stages: image acquisition, image enhancement, image segmentation, feature extract...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between dietary glycemic index (GI) and retinal microvasculature in adults. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 300 subjects from the EVIDENT II study. Dietary GI was calculated using a validated, semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. Retinal photographs were digitized, temporal vessels were measured in an area 0.5-1 disc diameter from t...

AVI provided an attractive opportunity for exploring novel visual interfaces for cultural heritage (CH). CH traditionally draws a lot of research attention when it comes to exploring the potential benefits from application of novel technology in realistic settings. At the same time, AVI focusses on exploring the state of the art visual interfaces and their application in various domains. The AV...