OBJECTIVE Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a prognostic marker in cardiovascular disease. The use of Doppler-measured ankle-brachial pressure index (Dop-ABI) for PAD diagnosis is limited because of time, required training, and costs. We assessed automated oscillometric measurement of the ankle-brachial pressure index (Osc-ABI) by nurses and clinical staff. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Clin...

The induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity may be an essential component of skin tumor promotion. ODC requires pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) as a cofactor. We have measured the epidermal PLP concentration and investigated its relationship to DNA synthesis and ODC activity in the hairless mouse. The epidermal PLP concentration was approximately 1.0 microgram/g. When tape-stripping wa...

This chapter gives an instantiation of DOP (Scha 1990, 1992; Bod 1992) which is known as Tree-DOP or DOP1 and which will be extensively used in the rest of this book. Tree-DOP combines subtrees from a treebank to parse new sentences. It employs the relative frequency estimator to assign probabilities to subtrees, and computes the probability of a parse tree as the sum of the probabilities of it...

Phosphorus (P) plays an important role in eutrophication and algal adaptation to environmental stresses; therefore, a better understanding of the impact P is essential control cyanobacterial bloom. In this study, Microcystis aeruginosa treated with 5 h ambient irradiation culture medium different availabilities dissolved organic (DOP) matter (DOM) explore physiological responses. Compared photo...

In this paper, we propose a novel local image descriptor DoP which is termed as the difference of images represented by polynomials in different degrees. Once an interest point/region is extracted by a common image detector such as Harris corner, our DoP descriptor is able to characterize the interest point/region with high distinctiveness, compactness, and robustness to viewpoint change, image...

This work is the first presentation of a new imaging technique which enables near real time multispectral acquisition of the so called “Degree Of Polarization” (DOP) in polarimetry. In this context DOP is the normalized difference between two orthogonal states of polarization. Essentially it is used as the contrast element to determine the difference of light propagation in turbid media for dif...

Data Oriented Parsing (DOP) is based on the idea of processing new input by combining fragments (associated with some probabilities) that are extracted from a treebank. In the simplest case these fragments are subparts of simple phrase structure trees (Tree-DOP). The approach is attractive in many ways but the impoverished representational basis is a serious drawback from a linguistic point of ...

In this paper, we synthesized a kind of bio-based plasticizer epoxidized linoleic acid cardanol ester (ELCE) from and acid. Its chemical structure was characterized with FT-IR 1H NMR. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) blends plasticized ELCE were prepared via thermoplastic blending torque rheometer. The performance including torque, mechanical property, thermal stability, plasticizing property migration...

Using a fiber-based swept-source (SS) polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) system, we investigate the degree of polarization (DOP) of light backscattered from the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in normal human subjects. Algorithms for processing data were developed to analyze the deviation in phase retardation and intensity of backscattered light in directions parallel...

Recently, degree of polarization (DOP) of light has been utilized as a parameter to monitor optical signal-to-noise-ratio (OSNR). However, in the presence of polarization-mode dispersion (PMD), when using DOP to determine OSNR, OSNR is always underestimated due to the depolarization effect induced by PMD. In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple PMD-insensitive OSNR mon...