Heterogeneous Face Recognition (HFR) is a task that matches faces across two different domains such as visible light (VIS), near-infrared (NIR), or the sketch domain. Due to lack of databases, HFR methods usually exploit pre-trained features on large-scale visual database contain general facial information. However, these cause performance degradation due texture discrepancy with With this moti...

We calculate nα phase-shifts in the resonating-group method (RGM), using the nuclear-matter G-matrix of the SU6 quark-model NN interaction. The interaction RGM kernels are evaluated in the center-of-mass system with explicit treatments of the nonlocality and momentum dependence of the partial-wave G-matrix components determined in symmetric nuclear matter. The momentum dependence of the G-matri...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether the co-administration of aripiprazole and mirtazapine could determine weight gain and lipid metabolism disorders in Wistar rats, compared to the same side effects produced by mirtazapine alone, and the risk of hepatotoxicity due to the combination of the two substances. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP...

Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are a diverse group of bacterial species that are distributed in the environment. Many of these environmental bacteria can cause disease in humans. The identification of NTM in environmental sources is important for both clinical and epidemiological purposes. In this study, the distribution of NTM species from environmental and clinical samples in the Middle Ea...

Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM) causing a pseudotuberculous lung disease to which patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) are particularly susceptible. We report here its complete genome sequence. The genome of M. abscessus (CIP 104536T) consists of a 5,067,172-bp circular chromosome including 4920 predicted coding sequences (CDS), an 81-kb full-length prop...

Stent deployments with geographical miss (GM) are associated with increased risk of target-vessel revascularization and periprocedural myocardial infarction. The aim of the current study was to investigate the underlying biomechanical mechanisms for adverse events with GM. The hypothesis is that stent deployment with GM [longitudinal GM, or LGM (i.e., stent not centered on the lesion); or radia...

The history, taxonomy, geographic distribution, clinical disease, and therapy of the pathogenic nonpigmented or late-pigmenting rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM) are reviewed. Community-acquired disease and health care-associated disease are highlighted for each species. The latter grouping includes health care-associated outbreaks and pseudo-outbreaks as well as sporadic disease cases. Treatm...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The trefoil factor family (TFF) peptide TFF1 is typically secreted by gastric surface mucous cells. These cells are also the major players in gastric restitution, i.e., repair of the stomach mucosa by cell migration after injury. METHODS An established in vitro model of gastric restitution, i.e., migration of the non-transformed rat gastric cell line RGM-1 after scratch woundi...