Previous work from this laboratory indicates that the KDI (Lys-Asp-Ile) domain of gamma 1-laminin promotes functional regeneration of adult rat spinal cord injuries and protects adult rat hippocampal neurons against massive neuronal death induced by intracerebral injection of the glutamate analogue kainic acid. In the present study, we used patch clamp recordings on cultured human embryonic neo...

This paper presents a variational and multisymplectic formulation of both compressible and incompressible models of continuum mechanics on general Riemannian manifolds. A general formalism is developed for non-relativistic first-order multisymplectic field theories with constraints, such as the incompressibility constraint. The results obtained in this paper set the stage for multisymplectic re...

We present KDI (Kernel Density Initialization), a density-based procedure for approximating centroids for the initialization step of iteration-based clustering algorithms. We show empirically that a rather low number of distance calculations in conjunction with a fast algorithm for nding the highest peaks are suucient for eeectively and eeciently nding a pre-speciied number of good centroids, w...

The workability of asphalt mixtures influences the logistical processes and workmanship during pavement construction. There are various methods for analyzing asphaltic concrete mixtures. However, there is a lack user-friendly laboratory that enable technologists, engineers, technicians, researchers to characterize trend via Newtonian physics. In this paper, new methodology, based on momentum th...

A silent epidemic of modern world and largely neglected field in drug development is traumatic brain injury. There is no treatment available for the patients suffering from brain trauma. Peptide is a naturally occurring biological alternative that could represent a new generation of future medications. Authors have designed and modified the C-terminal amino acids of KDI peptide responsible for ...

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In the context of the ALDAP (Accessing Large Data Archives in Astrophysics and Particle Physics) project funded by the NSF KDI program, we are collaborating with the SDSS Science Archive team at JHU [1] to exchange knowledge and experience in in implementing large science archives using Objectivity/DB. The JHU group has extensive experience in database structures, optimizing database queries, a...