The potential gap junction forming mouse connexin29 (Cx29) protein is concomitantly expressed with connexin32 (Cx32) in peripheral myelin forming Schwann cells and together with both Cx32 and connexin47 (Cx47) in oligodendrocytes of the CNS. To study the genomic structure and functional expression of Cx29, either primary cells or cell culture systems might be selected, from which the latter are...

Conventional methods for Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) retrieval are limited to areas with low reflectance such as water or vegetated areas because the satellite signals from the aerosols in these areas are more obvious than those in areas with higher reflectance such as urban and sandy areas. Land Surface Reflectance (LSR) is the key parameter that must be estimated accurately. Most current meth...

After strontium/transuranics removal by precipitation followed by cesium/technetium removal by ion exchange, the remaining low-activity waste in the Hanford River Protection Project Waste Treatment Plant is to be concentrated by evaporation before being mixed with glass formers and vitrified. To provide a technical basis to permit the waste treatment facility, a relatively organic-rich Hanford ...

Liquid water stored on the surface of ice sheets and glaciers impacts surface mass balance, ice dynamics, and heat transport. Multispectral remote sensing can be used to detect supraglacial lakes and estimate their depth and area. In this study, we use in situ spectral and bathymetric data to assess lake depth retrieval using the recently launched Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI). We als...

This study proposes a new water body classification method using top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance and water indices (WIs) of the Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) sensor and its corresponding random forest classifiers. In this study, multispectral images from the OLI sensor are represented as TOA reflectance and WI values because a classification result using two measures is better tha...

In this paper, we present a smart machine vision (SMV) system for printed circuit board (PCB) inspection. It has advantages over the traditional manual inspection by its higher efficiency and accuracy. This SMV system consists of two modules, LIF (Learning Inspection Features) and OLI (On-Line Inspection). The LIF module automatically learns inspection features from the CAD files of a PCB board...

1990-luvun puolessavälissä, muutama vuosi ennen ennenaikaista kuolemaansa, aina yhtä sympaattinen Ed Assmus oli kollegansa Aimo Tietäväisen vieraana Turun yliopistossa. Vierailun aikana Ed piti tavanmukaisen vierailuesitelmän, joka liittyi Steinerin kolmikkosysteemeihin. Esitelmän tarkka sisältö on jo jäänyt unholaan – se lienee liittynyt tällaisten systeemien insidenssimatriisien generoimiin k...

Three antibiotic-resistance mutations were isolated from strain FL496-2B: two are independent Mendelian genes, one conferring both oligomycin and venturicidin resistance (oli(R) (496)) and the other conferring cycloheximide resistance (cyh(R) (496)). The third is a mitochondrial mutation, O(R) (9), and confers a low level of oligomycin resistance to cells (in vivo) but not to the extracted mito...

What to expect, when planning to use Sentinel-2 datasets in unsupervised classification? This is a very actual question, since Copernicus Sentinel-2 data has been available since November 2015, but due to the winter period conditions, wide use has been obstacled, user experiences are missing. In a European Space Agency (ESA) financed feasibility study we needed to simulate 2015 Sentinel-2 data ...