Activation of chloride currents and release of internally sequestered Ca(2+) in airway smooth muscle have long been associated with excitation and contraction. Surprisingly, however, two recent publications (Deshpande DA, Wang WC, McIlmoyle EL, Robinett KS, Schillinger RM, An SS, Sham JS, Liggett SB. Nat Med 16: 1299-1304, 2010; Gallos G, Yim P, Chang S, Zhang Y, Xu D, Cook JM, Gerthoffer WT, E...

Hari D. Upadhyaya, Mani Vetriventhan, Santosh P. Deshpande, and Selvanayagam Sivasubramani, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru 502 324, Telangana, India; Hari D. Upadhyaya, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA, and Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; C. To...

Snake antivenoms are the only definitive management of snake envenoming. Parenteral administration of antivenom mitigates the toxic effects due to snake venom components. However, these benefits come with additional risk of antivenom reactions. The morbidity and mortality of antivenom reactions largely go unnoticed due to lack of awareness and many times these are wrongly attributed to effects ...

Image super-resolution, a process to enhance image resolution, has important applications in biometrics, satellite imaging, high definition television, medical imaging, etc. The long range captured iris identification systems often suffer from low resolution and meager focus of the captured iris images. These degrade the iris recognition performance. This paper proposes enhanced iterated back p...

Factorizing low-rank matrices has many applications in machine learning and statistics. For probabilistic models in the Bayes optimal setting, a general expression for the mutual information has been proposed using heuristic statistical physics computations, and proven in few specific cases. Here, we show how to rigorously prove the conjectured formula for the symmetric rank-one case. This allo...

in this research, we analyzed and compared different models of organizational culture that include: harrison (1972) and handy (1978), deal & kennedy (1982), quinn (1988), deashpande (1993), schneider (1994), sonenfield (1373), hellringle & slocum (1994), daft (1998), quinn & cameron (1999), deshpande & farely (2004), denison (2007). we collected these models based on competing value framework. ...

Spontaneous intussusception corresponds to the telescoping of a proximal piece bowel into distal portion bowel. It occurs rarely in adults and even less during pregnancy [ 1 Luhmann A Tait R Hassn A. Intussusception 20 weeks pregnant woman: case report. Cases J. 2009; 2: 6546 Crossref PubMed Scopus (4) Google Scholar ]. Complications can be life-threatening intestinal necrosis require early dia...

Title of dissertation: MINIMIZATION OF RESOURCE CONSUMPTION THROUGH WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION IN LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED DATA PLATFORMS Ashwin Kumar Kayyoor, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Associate Professor Amol Deshpande, Associate Professor Jimmy Lin Department of Computer Science The rapid increase in the data volumes encountered in many application domains has led to wi...

Orthopaedic casts are used to treat fractures, provide pain relief and support, and correct deformities (RCN 2000, Larsen 2002, Dandy and Edwards 2003, Nielsen and Ricketts 2005). Several different types of material are available for orthopaedic casts, including plaster of Paris, semi-rigid non-fibreglass (softcast), and a variety of resin-based synthetic materials such as rigid fibreglass. Pla...