Illicit drug use is clearly an important health problem. There are some 600,000 emergency department episodes in the US every year that are related to illicit drugs (SAMHSA, 2002a). National mortality estimates are not available, but there are probably on the order of 20,000 drug-induced deaths a year (SAMHSA, 2002b), with many more indirectly related to drug use. Some 5 million Americans are i...

Life demands that proteins fold into very precise functional structures. Functional native structure is enciphered by primary sequence (Anfinsen, 1973; Englander et al., 2007). However, native structures are dynamic systems composed of sophisticated networks of weak, mutually supportive contacts that are difficult to establish simultaneously during folding (Bartlett and Radford, 2009; Englander...

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Haptic interfaces are devices that allow human-machine interaction through force and touch. Combined haptic and visual interfaces have been around for decades. Yet, despite an enormous increase in research activity in the last few years, the science of haptics is still a technology in its infancy. The majority of commercially available haptic devices operate based on a principle of point intera...

With the growing number of face recognition applications in everyday life, imageand video-based recognition methods are becoming important research topic (Zhao et al., 2003). Effects of pose, illumination and expression are issues currently most studied in face recognition. So far, very little has been done to investigate the effects of compression on face recognition, even though the images ar...

With the growing number of face recognition applications in everyday life, imageand video-based recognition methods are becoming important research topic (Zhao et al., 2003). Effects of pose, illumination and expression are issues currently most studied in face recognition. So far, very little has been done to investigate the effects of compression on face recognition, even though the images ar...

in the last decades researchers had focused on developing a vaccine against tick based on protective antigen. recombinant vaccines based on concealed antigen from boophilus microplus have been developed in australia and cuba by the name of tickgard and gavac (de la fuente and kocan, 2006). further studies on this antigen have shown some extent of protection against other species (de vos et al.,...