We used a pair of hydrophones to monitor sound pressure levels (SPL, dB re 1 μPa) and frequency spectra of ambient sounds in Haro Strait during 18 months (April 2004 November 2005). Half-hour average SPL in the broad frequency band 0.1-15 kHz ranges from minimum (background) levels of 95 dB to maximum levels of 130 dB. The average SPL over 17 months is 115 dB. The broadband sound field is domin...

Single photon lidar (SPL) is an innovative technology for rapid forest structure and terrain characterization over large areas. Here, we evaluate data from an SPL instrument - the High Resolution Quantum Lidar System (HRQLS) that was used to map the entirety of Garrett County in Maryland, USA (1700 km(2)). We develop novel approaches to filter solar noise to enable the derivation of forest cano...

To determine drug-induced hyperfunction of marmoset thyroids due to inhibition of synthesis or enhancement of metabolic elimination of thyroid hormones, males were orally administered 10 and 30 mg/kg/day methimazole (MMI), 30 and 100 mg/kg/day spironolactone (SPL), or 50 mg/kg/day phenobarbital (PB) for 4 weeks. MMI caused marked hypertrophy of follicular epithelial cells in accordance with a s...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of solitary pulmonary lesions (SPL) requires a balance between procedure-related morbidity and diagnostic yield, particularly in areas where tuberculosis (TB) is endemic. Data on ultrathin bronchoscopy (UB) for this purpose is limited. To evaluate feasibility and safety of UB compared to SB for diagnosis of SPL in a TB endemic region. METHODS In this prospective rand...

Enhancer of split (E(spl)), one of the neurogenic loci of Drosophila, is uncovered by the deletion Df(3R)E(spl)(R-B251) with breakpoints at 96F8 and 96F13. We describe here the results of a genetic analysis of this chromosomal interval. Thirty-one mutations in genes of this region were recovered during various programs of mutagenesis. In addition, we included the spontaneous mutations E(spl)(D)...

Self-paced learning (SPL) is a new methodology that simulates the learning principle of humans/animals to start learning easier aspects of a learning task, and then gradually take more complex examples into training. This new-coming learning regime has been empirically substantiated to be effective in various computer vision and pattern recognition tasks. Recently, it has been proved that the S...

We have reported that i.v. administration of splenocytes prepared from early pregnant mice promoted embryo implantation in pseudopregnant CD-1 (ICR) (closed colony) mice. In this study, the similar effects of splenocytes were confirmed using an inbred strain, BALB/c mice, and the mechanism was further investigated. Splenocytes were prepared from pregnancy day 4 (P4-spl) and dioestrus mice (Di-s...

BACKGROUND Local normative data for penile size will aid physicians in clinical practice. There are no studies on stretched penile length (SPL) in newborn Turkish boys. OBJECTIVE To establish normative data for SPL of newborn Turkish boys and compare these with data from different countries. METHODS 514 newborn Turkish boys, who were not small for gestational age (SGA) or premature, were in...

Goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE) approaches for Software Product Lines (SPLs) offer a natural way to capture not only stakeholders’ goals but also similarities and the variability of an SPL. Goals to Software Product Lines (G2SPL) is an approach that guides the systematic creation of an SPL feature model from i* models with cardinality. However, by using G2SPL it is not possible to...

The injection of antigen into the anterior chamber (AC, intracameral injection) of a murine eye induces the generation of splenic CD8(+) regulatory T cells (AC-SPL cells) that effect the antigen-specific suppression of a delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction. Here we show (i) for the first time that the local antigen-specific suppression of DTH-induced swelling in immunized mice either b...