PURPOSE The mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (c-Met) receptor, also known as hepatocyte growth factor receptor (HGFR), controls morphogenesis, a process that is physiologically required for embryonic development and tissue repair. Aberrant c-Met activation is associated with a variety of human malignancies including cancers of the lung, kidney, stomach, liver, and brain. In this study, ...

enamel matrix derivative emdogain (emd) is widely used in periodontal treatment in spite of the fact that its effect on the developing embryo has not been elucidated. the aim of this study was to investigate the teratogenic effect of emd on the rat embryo neural crest cells. the neural crest is a unique population of cells that migrates from the dorsal neural tube along defined pathways and pro...

Die zunächst im Bereich Computer Vision vorgestellte Earth Mover’s Distanz (EMD) hat aufgrund Ihrer hohen Flexibilität über eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen Einzug in die inhaltsbasierte Ähnlichkeitssuche in Multimedia-Datenbanken gehalten. Techniken zur effizienten Bearbeitung von EMD-Anfragen wurden in der jüngeren Vergangenheit vorgestellt und basieren zumeist auf einer mehrstufigen Bearbeitung...

Towards developing a rigorous mathematical theory for Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), we provide an overview of the algorithm and introduce a corresponding operator, attempting a preliminary study. We prove that the EMD is nonlinear, we identify the major reason of its nonlinearity, and we introduce the related concept of consistency, which we show the EMD does not satisfy either. & 2012 Pu...

Ca(2+) sensitizers may be advantageous for treatment in human heart failure by increasing cardiac force without increasing the Ca(2+) transient or energy consumption. To study the mode of action of the Ca(2+) sensitizers EMD 57033 (EMD) and CGP 48506 (CGP), their influence on butanedione monoxime (BDM)-mediated depression of cross-bridge cycling was analyzed in human myocardium (explanted heart...

Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a simple but very efficientmethod for investigating the power-law long-term correlations of non-stationary time series, in which a detrending step is necessary to obtain the local fluctuations at different timescales. We propose to determine the local trends through empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and perform the detrending operation by removing the EM...

Querying uncertain data sets (represented as probability distributions) presents many challenges due to the large amount of data involved and the difficulties comparing uncertainty between distributions. The Earth Mover’s Distance (EMD) has increasingly been employed to compare uncertain data due to its ability to effectively capture the differences between two distributions. Computing the EMD ...

The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) was recently proposed as a new time-frequency analysis tool for nonstationary and nonlinear signals. Although the EMD is able to find the intrinsic modes of a signal and is completely self-adaptive, it does not have any implication on reconstruction optimality. In some situations, when a specified optimality is desired for signal reconstruction, a more fle...