Advances in digital image processing were increased in the past few years. Blind source separation is one of the important research area with numerous applications in signal processing, image processing, telecommunication and speech recognition. In this paper the Blind Source Separation is performed using Slow Feature Analysis(SFA). It is necessary to use multivariate SFA instead of univariate ...

The number of reports regarding sesame seed food allergy (SFA) has increased significantly worldwide over the past two decades, either due to a genuine increase in SFA or merely an increase in its awareness. Its prevalence is difficult to estimate due to the lack of well designed prospective population-based studies. Based on the available data, we estimate that SFA affects 0.1-0.2 % of the pop...

Face recognition is a challenging task in computer vision and pattern recognition. It is well-known that obtaining a low-dimensional feature representation with enhanced discriminatory power is of paramount importance to face recognition. Moreover, recent research has shown that the face images reside on a possibly nonlinear manifold. Thus, how to effectively exploit the hidden structure is a k...

In this, paper we present a probabilistic approach to analysis and prediction of protein structure. We argue that this approach provides a flexible and convenient mechanism to perform general scientific data analysis in molecular biology. We apply our approach to an important problem in molecular biology-predicting the secondary structure of proteins-and obtain experimental results comparable t...

We report here on the characterization of the novel immunosuppressant Sanglifehrin A (SFA). SFA is a representative of a class of macrolides produced by actinomycetes that bind to cyclophilin A (CypA), the binding protein of the fungal cyclic peptide cyclosporin A (CsA). SFA interacts with high affinity with the CsA binding side of CypA and inhibits its peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activity. The m...

BackgroundThe study objective was to assess the postmarket safety and effectiveness of GORE VIABHAN endoprosthesis with heparin bioactive surface for treatment in-stent restenosis (ISR) superficial femoral artery (SFA).MethodsA prospective, single-arm, international enrolled patients at 23 sites from October 2015 April 2018. Patients ≥50% ISR or occlusions in SFA, Rutherford categories 2-5, lea...

We tested the hypothesis that age-related endothelial dysfunction in rat soleus muscle feed arteries (SFA) is mediated in part by NAD(P)H oxidase-derived reactive oxygen species (ROS). SFA from young (4 mo) and old (24 mo) Fischer 344 rats were isolated and cannulated for examination of vasodilator responses to flow and acetylcholine (ACh) in the absence or presence of a superoxide anion (O(2)(...

The objective of our study was to resolve two issues pertaining to motoneuron (MN) spike frequency adaptation (SFA): 1) to develop an index of SFA that is sensitive to a wide range of adaptation patterns and would correlate well with MN excitability and 2) to determine whether SFA pattern is stimulus current dependent. Sprague-Dawley rats (250-350 g) were anesthetized (ketamine-xylazine) before...