This a preprint of the Materials accepted for publication in Automation and Remote Control, vol. 68, no. 9, 2007. c ©Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2007. Russian version published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2007, No. 9. You may find the most current version of this file together with a BibTEX entry at http://www.reiszig.de/gunther/. The definitive publication will be available at http://www.spr...

Objective(s) Diabetes mellitus is associated with disturbances of learning and memory and cognitive functioning. Aegle marmelos Corr. from Rutaceae family is widely used in Iranian folk medicine for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. Considering the beneficial antidiabetic and antioxidant potential of A. marmelos, this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of oral administration of A. ma...

Purpose LV volumetry and infarct size measurement using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the reference standard to non-invasively measure and to quantify cardiac volumes, function and infarct size. We have observed a high variability of cardiac MRI measurements, if inexperienced observers evaluated the MRI data. The purpose of the study was to analyze the reproducibility of cardiac M...

We investigated whether the perceived vanishing point of a moving stimulus becomes more accurate as one's degree of control over the stimulus increases. Either alone or as a member of a pair, participants controlled the progression of a dot stimulus back and forth across a computer monitor. They did so via right and left buttonpresses that incremented the dot's velocity rightward and leftward, ...

Dye advection is widely used in experimental flow analysis but has seen less use for visualization in computational fluid dynamics. One possible reason for this disconnect is the inaccuracy of the texture-based approach, which is prone to artifacts caused by numeric diffusion and mass fluctuation. In this paper, we introduce a novel 2D dye advection scheme for flow visualization based on the co...

During many key biological processes, exocytosis is confined to distinct regions of the plasma membrane. Spatial control of exocytosis correlates with altered membrane skeleton dynamics and assembly of local membrane microdomains. These domains act as local stages for the assembly and the regulation of molecular complexes (targeting patches) that mediate vesicle-membrane fusion. Furthermore, lo...

In this thesis, we study robust spatial formation control from several aspects. First, we study robust adaptive attitude synchronization for a network of rigid body agents using various attitude error functions defined on SO(3). Our results are particularly useful for networks with large initial attitude difference. We devise an adaptive geometric approach to cope with situations where the iner...

Due to the attractive features that domain wall fermions possess with respect to chiral symmetry, we continue our investigation of the light quark masses with this discretization. Achieving reliable results, especially for (mu +md)/2, requires strict control of systematic uncertainties. Our present results were obtained on a quenched β = 6.0 lattice with spatial volume ≈ (1.5 fm). Consequently ...

In this paper, we present an approach to characterize video sequences using information theoretic measures. This characterization is then used to eeciently represent a volume of video. In a typical video sequence, sometimes texture reveals structure, in other cases motion does it. In addition, the temporal and spatial extents are variables. The attempt of this work is to build this structure by...

We determine the relative pion mass shift Mπ(L)/Mπ − 1 due to the finite spatial extent L of the box by means of two-flavor chiral perturbation theory and the one-particle Lüscher formula. We use as input the expression for the infinite volume ππ forward scattering amplitude up to next-to-next-to-leading order and can therefore control the convergence of the chiral series. A comparison to the f...