Many modern sensors used for mapping produce 3D point clouds, which are typically registered together using the iterative closest point (icp) algorithm. Because icp has many variants whose performances depend on the environment and the sensor, hundreds of variations have been published. However, no comparison frameworks are available, leading to an arduous selection of an appropriate variant fo...

Previous reports indicate that mutations within the Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrosis virus FP25K gene (open reading frame 61) significantly reduce incorporation of enveloped nucleocapsids into viral occlusions. We report that FP25K is a nucleocapsid protein of both the budded virus (BV) and occluded virus (ODV), and we describe the effects of two FP25K mutations (480-1 [N-terminal trun...

Platelet-derived growth factors (PDGF) may contribute to the activation and growth of smooth muscle that is characteristic of airway remodeling in asthmatic patients. Early growth response 1 (EGR-1) is a transcription factor that is induced in several cell types by PDGF and may mediate some of the effects of PDGF. We show that human airway smooth muscle cells in cell culture express EGR-1 1 h a...

The coenzyme function of pyridoxal-phosphate in cysteine desulfhydration and in the mechanistically similar serine and threonine dehydration (deamination) processes has been a subject of discussion in a number of recent publications (see, for example, Snell, 1952, and Braunstein and Shemyakin, 1953). A chemical model reaction has been proposed (Metzler and Snell, 1952). Evidence for pyridoxal-p...

ETV1, ERM and E1A-F are members of the multigene ETS domain containing a class of transcription factors, first identified in the genome of the avian retrovirus E26. Based upon extensive homology between these genes within their ETS domain (96% identity each other), these three genes comprise a distinct sub-family of ETS genes as a human PEA3 sub-family. By analyzing somatic cell hybrid segregat...

An endogenous growth model is examined where individuals optimize consumption and tax evasion over time given the tax structure and tax compliance policy of the government. Applying methods of stochastic optimal control, the individual’s problem is solved and the rate of economic growth is derived. It is shown that for a given tax policy tax evasion spurs growth because it leads to higher savin...

This paper studies the impact of tax-financed universal health coverage schemes on macroeconomic aspects of labor supply, asset holding, inequality, and welfare, while taking into account features common to developing economies, such as informal employment and tax avoidance, by constructing a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents. Agents have different education...