These experiments were conducted to evaluate the feeding value of rice protein concentrate (RPC) in weaning pigs. In expt. I, a 5-week feeding trial was conducted with 126 pigs (L×Y×D; 21 d-old; 5.32±0.34 kg). Treatments were spray-dried plasma protein (SDPP; control), soy protein concentrate (SPC) and RPC (phase 1), and dried porcine soluble (DPS; control), SPC and RPC (phase 2). An ileal dige...

When in a pipeline a robust global motion estimation is needed, RANSAC algorithm is the usual choice. Unfortunately, since RANSAC is an iterative method based on random analysis, it is not suitable for real-time processing. This paper presents an outlier removal algorithm, which reaches a robust estimation (at least equal to RANSAC) with really low power consumption and can be employed for embe...

In this paper, we proposed a new feature based image mosaic algorithm. The improved RANSAC homography algorithm based on the modified media flow filter, to detect wrong matches for improving the stability of the normal RANSAC homography algorithm. The method improved the local registration between neighboring images. Experiments and Statistical Analysis show that our mosaic method is robust. Ke...

Range sensors, in particular time-of-flight and stereo cameras, are being increasingly used for applications such as robotics, automotive, human-machine interface and virtual reality. The ability to recover the geometrical structure of visible surfaces is critical for scene understanding. Typical structured indoor or urban scenes are often represented via compositional models comprising multipl...

Signalling pathways underlying the phenomenon of remote ischaemic preconditioning (RPc) cardioprotection are not completely understood. The existing evidence agrees that intact sensory innervation of the remote tissue/organ is required for the release into the systemic circulation of preconditioning factor(s) capable of protecting a transplanted or isolated heart. However, the source and molecu...

Locally and functionally distributed applications realized on different system architectures demand a universal, portable and intuitive software utility for interprocess communication. Remote Procedure Calling (RPC) fulfills these requirements but suffers unnecessarily strict synchronization and the danger of deadlocks with complex client/server relations. Using message passing to avoid the inh...

In this paper, LO-RANSAC 3-LAF – a new algorithm for the correspondence problem – is described. Exploiting processes proposed for computation of affineinvariant local frames, three point-to-point correspondences are found for each region-to-region correspondence. Consequently, it is sufficient to select only triplets of region correspondences in the hypothesis stage of epipolar geometry estimat...

We investigated the protective effects of remote postconditioning (RPC) in the lungs of rats with deep hypothermia ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and the role of nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) signaling in this process. Forty-nine rats were randomly divided into a sham control group, deep hypothermia I/R group, RPC group, I/R+all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) group, I/R+RPC+ATRA grou...

Background and Purpose—Nuclear erythroid 2 related factor 2 (Nrf2) is an astrocyteenriched transcription factor that has previously been shown to upregulate cellular antioxidant systems in response to ischemia. While resveratrol preconditioning (RPC) has emerged as a potential neuroprotective therapy, the involvement of Nrf2 in RPC-induced neuroprotection and mitochondrial reactive oxygen speci...

Previous research (Galyean et al., 1997) indicated that daily gain and feed efficiency were improved when finishing beef steers were fed graded levels of ruminally protected choline (RPC; .25, .5, and 1% of dietary DM). Responses were cubic (P < .10) in nature, with an 11% increase in daily gain and a 6.8% improvement in feed efficiency for .25% RPC vs the control diet, but no effect on gain or...