Many minimally invasive interventional procedures still rely on 2D fluoroscopic imaging. Generating a patient-specific 3D model from these X-ray data would improve the procedural workflow, e.g., by providing assistance functions such as automatic positioning. To accomplish this, two things are required. First, statistical human shape of anatomy and second, differentiable renderer. We propose re...

An enzyme with the characteristics of classical renin was isolated from brain extracts of nephrectomized dogs. This enzyme is thermolabile, nondialyzable, and forms a vasoconstrictive material when incubated with renin plasma substrate at pH 7. A short lasting pressor activity was also found in brain extracts of dogs and rats. This activity was due to a substance identified by chemical and phar...

We have identified a member of the insulin receptor (InsR)/insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (IGF-1R) family. The Xenopus insulin receptor (Xe-InsR) is present as a maternal 6.6 kb transcript. Northern blot analysis reveals the presence of this transcript until the mid-blastula transition (MBT), when levels decrease. At neurulation, two distinct transcripts of 6.6 and 7.7 kb are detected, b...

Wrapper induction algorithms, which use labeled examples to learn extraction rules, are a crucial component of information agents that integrate semi-structured information sources. Multi-view wrapper induction algorithms reduce the amount of training data by exploiting several types of rules (i.e., views), each of which being sufficient to extract the relevant data. All multiview algorithms re...

The objective of the study presented here was to perform an empirical investigation on factors affecting healthcare workers acceptance and utilisation of e-learning in post-school healthcare education. E-learning benefits are realised when key features of e-learning are not only applied, but deemed useful, compatible with the learning process and supportive in order to reach the overall goals o...

There is an explosive growth of e-learning trend during the last few years. More and more learning resources are generated by different purposes in the world. How to make the learning resources to be sharable and reusable is a key factor in e-learning environment. This paper presents a system framework of Agent-based Navigational Training System (ANTS) to facilitate lecturers and learners achie...