Intermediate filaments are a large and structurally diverse group of cellular filaments that are classified into five different groups. They are referred to as intermediate filaments (IFs) because they are intermediate in diameter between the two other cytoskeletal filament systems that is filamentous actin and microtubules. The basic building block of IFs is a predominantly alpha-helical rod w...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and reporting rate of incidental findings (IF) in adult outpatients undergoing lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Re-evaluation of a total of 1278 lumbar MRI images (collected from patients with a mean age of 50.5 years, range 16-91 years) captured between August 2010-August 2011 was done by a n...

The student’s interaction in e-learning which were captured in the log file can be intelligently examined to diagnose students’ learning style. This is important since a student’s behaviour while learning online is among the significant parameters for adaptation in e-learning system. Currently, Felder Silverman (FS) is a common learning style model that is frequently used by many researchers fo...

an Iterated Function System (IFS), which leads to a solution that involves finding an Eulerian cycle in a certain graph and then to finding generators for the multiplicative group of a finite field. We start with an introduction to IFS fractals and the problem of generating an image of the attractor of an IFS. For a more complete introduction to the theory of Iterated Function Systems, we refer...

Renal incidental findings (IFs) are common. However, previous reports investigated renal IFs were limited to patient selection. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and distribution of all renal IFs on computed tomography (CT) in a large patient collective.All patients, who underwent CT investigations of the abdominal region at our institution in the time period between Janu...

Integrated farming is popular in India but little is understood about circulation of multi-host pathogens under the emerging farming systems (IFS). Circulation of Edwardsiella a pathogen of public health importance has been studied in IFS. Gill swabs of fish (8), pond water (8), rectal swabs of pig (36) and cloacal swabs of duck (32) from an IFS and 24 samples each of rectal swabs of pigs and c...

By immunogold labeling, we demonstrate that "millipede-like" structures seen previously in mammalian cell cytoskeletons after removal of actin by treatment with gelsolin are composed of the cores of vimentin IFs with sidearms containing plectin. These plectin sidearms connect IFs to microtubules, the actin-based cytoskeleton and possibly membrane components. Plectin binding to microtubules was ...