NATALIA DÍAZ-GUTIÉRREZ, FERNANDO VARGAS-SALINAS, MAURICIO RIVERA-CORREA, JULIÁN ANDRÉS ROJAS-MORALES, SERGIO ESCOBAR-LASSO, JULIÁN A. VELASCO, PAUL DAVID ALFONSO GUTIÉRREZ-CÁRDENAS & ADOLFO AMÉZQUITA Instituto Internacional de Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica. E-mail: [email protected] Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universida...

Matrix attachment regions (MARs) are DNA sequences that bind an internal nuclear network of nonhistone proteins called the nuclear matrix. Thus, they may define discrete gene-containing chromatin loops in vivo. We have studied the effects of flanking transgenes with MARs on transgene expression levels in maize callus and in transformed maize plants. Three MAR elements, two from maize (Adh1 5' M...

Multivariate autoregressive (MAR) models have been useful in elucidating food web dynamics and stability from freshwater plankton monitoring data, but their applicability to marine datasets has not been as well explored. Characteristics of marine systems, such as the movement of water masses by tides and currents, may present unique challenges to MAR modeling of data gathered in marine environm...

آگاهی از میزان تاج‌پوشش درختان در مناطق شهری به‌علت تأثیرات آن کاهش آلودگی‌‌های هوا، آلودگی صوتی، جلوگیری باد، ذخیرة نزولات آسمانی، و کنترل رواناب‌های بسیار ضروری است. ازآن‌جا‌که استخراج با روش‌های دستی وقت‌گیر پرهزینه است، تکنیک‌های سنجش دور می‌توانند ابزار مناسبی برای تأمین این داده‌ها باشند. طبقه‌بندی شیء‌پایه، انتخاب پارامترهای بهینة قطعه‌بندی، به‌ویژه پارامتر مقیاس، اهمیت بسیاری دارد معمول...

Screening a mouse genomic DNA library with human androgen-receptor (hAR) cDNA probes resulted in the isolation and characterization of eight genomic fragments that contain the eight exons of the mouse androgen-receptor (mAR) gene. On the basis of similarity to the hAR gene, the nucleotide sequences of the protein-coding parts of the exons as well as the sequences of the intron/exon boundaries w...

At least some mutant p53 proteins not s imply have los t the wild-type p53 specific tumor suppressor function, but exhibit oncogenic functions on their own. Recently we showed that binding of mutant p53 to MAR/SAR elements is an act ivity specif ic for mutant p53 and clearly distinguishable from the previously reported DNA-binding activities of p53. Since MAR/SAR elements are considered to be i...

BACKGROUND T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has been shown to be a promising technique for determination of ischemic myocardium, referred to as myocardium at risk (MaR), after an acute coronary event. Quantification of MaR in T2-weighted CMR has been proposed to be performed by manual delineation or the threshold methods of two standard deviations from remote (2SD), full widt...

به دلیل عدم قطعیت‌های شناختی، تصادفی و محدودیت‌های انعطاف پذیر، در این مطالعه مدل جدیدی از برنامه‌ریزی محدودیت شانس انعطاف‌پذیر، امکانی، استوار مختلط بر مبنای تئوری اعتبار برای طراحی شبکه زنجیره تامین حلقه بسته توسعه داده شد. نگرش‌های متفاوت تصمیم‌گیرندگان با اندازه‌گیری انعطاف‌پذیرتر پارامترهای خوش‌بینانه بدبینانه قالب معیار پاسخ حداقل سطح رضایت انعطاف‌پذیر حل بهینه گردید. پیشنهادی، قادر کاهش ...

Streaking artifacts on computed tomography (CT) images are caused by high density materials such as hip prosthesis, surgical clips and dental fillings. The artifacts can lead to compromised clinical outcome due to the inability to differentiate tumor volume and the uncertainties in dose calculation. The goals of our study are to evaluate how GE’s smart metal artifact reduction (MAR) algorithm i...