The myogenic determination factors (MDFs) are transcriptional activators that target E boxes in many muscle-specific promoters, including those of the genes coding for the subunits of the acetylcholine receptor. It is not known, however, if in vivo a given E box in a transcriptionally active gene is occupied, either uniquely by one MDF or randomly by all MDFs. We have analyzed expression of MDF...

The Matakaoa Debris Flow (MDF) is a 200-km-long mass-transport deposit resulting from the failure of the Matakaoa continental margin, northeast New Zealand, ca. 38–100 ky ago. In this study, high-quality bathymetric and seismic reflection data are used to identify the morpho-structural characters that reflect the kinematics of the MDF, as well as its interactions with basin sediments. We demons...

Themultidelay block frequency-domain (MDF) adaptive filter is an excellent candidate for both acoustic and network echo cancellation. There is a need for a very good double-talk detector (DTD) to be combined efficiently with the MDF algorithm. Recently, a DTD based on a normalized cross-correlation vector was proposed and it was shown that this DTD performsmuch better than the Geigel algorithm ...

16 dimethyldiazol-2-yl)-2,5 diphenyl tetrazolium bromid, TBARS: thiobarbituric acid reactive 17 substances 18 4-Data were presented at the 4 th Abstract 23 24 Red meat is associated with colon cancer risk. Puzzlingly, meat does not promote 25 carcinogenesis in rodent studies. However, we demonstrated previously that dietary heme 26 promotes aberrant crypt foci (ACF), in rats given a low-calcium...

The present study deals with the physical and mechanical properties of dry-formed medium density fibreboard (MDF) made from renewable biomass kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) stem as a function of adhesive level and refining conditions. Raw material was prepared by heating for 5 min at pressure levels of 6 and 8 bars. Experimental samples with a target density of 700 kgm -3 were produced with 10,...

Red meat intake is associated with colon cancer risk. Puzzlingly, meat does not promote carcinogenesis in rat studies. However, we demonstrated previously that dietary heme promotes aberrant crypt foci (ACF) formation in rats given a low-calcium diet. Here, we tested the hypothesis that heme-rich meats promote colon carcinogenesis in rats treated with azoxymethane and fed low-calcium diets (0.8...

Recently, a discrimination measure for feature extraction for two-class data, called the maximum discriminating (MDF) measure (Talukder and Casasent [Neural Networks 14 (2001) 1201-1218]), was introduced. In the present paper, it is shown that the MDF discrimination measure produces exactly the same results as the classical Fisher criterion, on the condition that the two prior probabilities are...

PASCAL-S is a dataset built using the validation set of the PASCAL VOC 2010 segmentation challenge. It contains 850 images with the ground truth labeled by 12 subjects. We threshold the masks at 0.5 to obtain binary masks as suggested in [4]. The SOD dataset contains 300 images and it was originally designed for image segmentation. Many images in this dataset have multiple salient objects with ...