Genome banks contain precious biological information that is mostly not discovered yet. Biologists in turn are keen to precisely explore these banks in order to discover effective patterns (such as motifs and retro-transposons) that have a real impact on the function and evolution of living creatures. Because the modern genome sequencing technologies produce genomes in high throughputs, many te...

INTRODUCTION The Faculty of Medicine, Al-Baha University (FMBU), is a newly established medical school that implements a community-oriented and integrated system-based curriculum which is suitable for both medical students and serving the needs of the local community. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the steps that were followed to plan, design, and implement an endocrinology an...

OBJECTIVE Review of intraoperative anesthetic challenges and the role of transesophageal echocardiography in children with sinus venosus atrial septal defect and partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage undergoing Warden repair. DESIGN A retrospective observational case series. METHODOLGY: Pediatric patients who underwent Warden repair between October 2011-September 2015 were recruited. Th...

In a spirit close to classical Stein’s method, we introduce a new technique to derive first order ODEs on differences of characteristic functions. Then, using concentration inequalities and Fourier transform tools, we convert this information into sharp bounds for the so-called smooth Wasserstein metrics which frequently arise in Stein’s method theory. Our methodolgy is particularly efficient w...

3. GERSA, Ecole d’Architecture de Nantes, Nantes, France Abstract Virtual reality thanks to immersion and interaction is a good tool to assess urban environments. Allowing users to freely navigate in the virtual environment, virtual reality permits to take into account the influence of dynamic elements and the observers’ actions in the perception of urban spaces. However, previous works have sh...

bstract. We propose a novel unsupervised multiresolution adapive and progressive gradient-based color-image segmentation algoithm (MAPGSEG) that takes advantage of gradient information in n adaptive and progressive framework. The proposed methodolgy is initiated with a dyadic wavelet decomposition scheme of an rbitrary input image accompanied by a vector gradient calculation f its color-convert...