Three main questions are addressed in this study: (a) how do different icon design conditions (illustrative styles and design elements) and colours affect consumers’ Kansei? (b) how do different design conditions and colours match with the icon image? and (c) what kind of design conditions and colours would generate positive influences on the icon image? To address these questions, the design c...

conclusions according to the results of this study, the accuracy of the file length in improved digital images showed no significant difference in comparison with the actual file length. materials and methods using an analytical-diagnostic method, an access cavity was prepared in 36 mandibular and maxillary premolar teeth. a file # 15 was inserted into the canal of each tooth until the tip of t...

The silkworm, Bombyx mori, is one of the major insect model organisms, and its draft and fine genome sequences became available in 2004 and 2008, respectively. Transposable elements (TEs) constitute ~40% of the silkworm genome. To better understand the roles of TEs in organization, structure and evolution of the silkworm genome, we used a combination of de novo, structure-based and homology-bas...

The evolution of sequencing technology has lead to an enormous increase in the number of genomes that have been sequenced. This is especially true in the field of virus genomics. In order to extract meaningful biological information from these genomes, whole genome data mining software tools must be utilized. Hundreds of tools have been developed to analyze biological sequence data. However, on...

This paper presents efficient low-power compact hardware designs for common image processing functions including the median filter, smoothing filter, motion blurring, emboss filter, sharpening, Sobel, Roberts, and Canny edge detection. The designs were described in Verilog HDL. Xilinx ISE design suite was used for code simulation, synthesis, implementation, and chip programming. The designs wer...

Abstract Background Dysregulation of the OPG / RANK RANKL signalling pathway is a key step in occurrence steroid-induced osteonecrosis femoral head (ONFH). This study aims to understand degree methylation , and genes steroid-related ONFH. Methods A case-control was designed, including 50 patients (25 males 25 females) matched controls. The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite (EMBOSS)...

MOTIVATION Almost all users encounter problems using sequence analysis programs. Not only are they difficult to learn because of the parameters, syntax and semantic, but many are different. That is why we have developed a Web interface generator for more than 150 molecular biology command-line driven programs, including: phylogeny, gene prediction, alignment, RNA, DNA and protein analysis, moti...