To establish infection successfully, Staphylococcus aureus must evade clearance by polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN). We studied the expression and regulation of the methionine sulfoxide reductases (Msr) that are involved in the repair of oxidized staphylococcal proteins and investigated their influence on the fate of S. aureus exposed to oxidants or PMN. We evaluated a mutant deficient in ms...

The RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) system is paid attention as a technology that can realize a ubiquitous environment. Each RFID tag has a unique ID code, and is attached on some object with the information of the objects. A user reads the unique ID code using RFID readers and obtains the information of the object. One of the important applications of RFID technology is the indoor positi...

A new approach for tuning the parameters of MultiScale Retinex (MSR) based color image enhancement algorithm using a popular optimization method, namely, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is presented in this paper. The image enhancement using MSR scheme heavily depends on parameters such as Gaussian surround space constant, number of scales, gain and offset etc. Selection of these parameters, ...

Minimum storage regenerating (MSR) codes form a special class of maximum distance separable (MDS) codes by providing mechanisms for exact regeneration of a single code block in their codewords by downloading the minimum amount of information from the remaining code blocks. As a result, the MSR codes find application to distributed storage systems to enable node repairs with the optimal repair b...

The GREC-MSR task is to generate appropriate references to an entity in the context of a piece of discourse longer than a sentence. In MSR ’09 run of this task, the main aim is to select the actual main subject reference (MSR) from a list of given referential expressions that is appropriate in context. We used a machine learning approach augmented with some rules to select the most appropriate ...

This paper presents an overview of the broad-coverage, application-independent natural language generation component of the NLP system being developed at Microsoft Research. It demonstrates how this component functions within a multilingual Machine Translation system (MSR-MT), using the languages that we are currently working on (English, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese). Section 1 provides a sy...

Regulation of macrophage scavenger receptor (MSR) activity may be an important determinant of the extent of atherogenesis. The effect of macrophage-colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) on this pathway was studied using a recently developed monoclonal antibody to murine MSR. M-CSF markedly and selectively increased MSR synthesis in murine macrophages: posttranslationally, the receptor appeared more...

In this paper, we present a Chinese word segmentation system which is consisted of four components, i.e. basic segmentation, named entity recognition, error-driven learner and new word detector. The basic segmentation and named entity recognition, implemented based on conditional random fields, are used to generate initial segmentation results. The other two components are used to refine the re...

In this paper, signed-rank based nonparametric detectors are used for pseudonoise (PN) code acquisition in direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DS/SS) systems. We first derive the locally optimum rank (LOR) detector and then propose the locally suboptimum rank (LSR) and modified signed-rank (MSR) detectors using approximate score functions. We compare the single-dwell scheme without the verificatio...