A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...

BACKGROUND Dietary restraint is largely unsuccessful for controlling obesity. As an alternative, subjects can easily be trained to reliably recognize sensations of initial hunger (IH) a set of physiological sensations which emerge spontaneously, not necessarily at planned mealtimes, and may be the afferent arm of a homeostatic system of food intake regulation. Previously we have reported that I...

BACKGROUND Recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor (rhPDGF) is safe and effective for the treatment of periodontal defects in short-term studies up to 6 months in duration. We now provide results from a 36-month extension study of a multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial evaluating the effect and long-term stability of PDGF-BB treatment in patients with localized severe per...

We introduce inverted stippling , a method to mimic an inversion technique used by artists when performing stippling. To this end, we extend Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) multi-class LBG (MLBG) with multiple layers. MLBG couples the layers stochastically optimize for per-layer and overall blue-noise properties. propose stipple-based filling generate solid color backgrounds inverting areas. Our experime...

Due to latest advancements in the field of remote sensing, it becomes easier acquire high quality images by use various satellites along with sensing components. But massive quantity data poses a challenging issue store and effectively transmit images. Therefore, image compression techniques can be utilized process In this aspect, vector quantization (VQ) employed for widely applied VQ approach...

In most of the computer aided diagnosis, segmentation is used as the preliminary stage and further can be helpful in quantitative analysis. Ultrasound imaging (US) helps medical experts to understand clinical problem efficiently with low cost as compared to its counterparts. In this paper, vector quantization based clustering technique has been proposed to detect the tumour (malignant or benign...

The paper presents performance comparison of image retrieval methods based on texture feature extraction using Vector Quantization (VQ) codebook generation techniques like LBG and KEVR (Kekre‟s Error Vector Rotation) with assorted color spaces. The image is divided into non overlapping blocks of size 2x2 pixels (each pixel with red, green and blue component). Each block corresponds to one train...

Tuberculosis remains a major global health problem and alternative therapeutic approaches are needed. Considering the high prevalence of lung tuberculosis (80% of cases), the pulmonary delivery of antitubercular drugs in a carrier system capable of reaching the alveoli, being recognised and phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages (mycobacterium hosts), would be a significant improvement to current...

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) serve the increasingly dominant role of implementation 3-D audio systems, which have been realized in some commercial applications. However, the cost of a 3-D audio system cannot be brought down because the efficiency of computation, the size of memory, and the synthesis of unmeasured HRTFs remain to be made better. This paper presents a way to moderate t...