Tetraspanins encode a large conserved family of proteins that span the membrane four times and are expressed in a variety of eukaryotic tissues. They are part of membrane complexes that are involved in such diverse processes as intracellular signaling, cellular motility, metastasis, and tumor suppression. The single fly tetraspanin characterized to date, late bloomer (lbm), is expressed on the ...

The Artificial Compressibility Method (ACM) for the incompressible NavierStokes equations is (link-wise) reformulated (referred to as LW-ACM) by a finite set of discrete directions (links) on a regular Cartesian mesh, in analogy with the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The main advantage is the possibility of exploiting well established technologies originally developed for LBM and classical co...

A boundary condition-implemented immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) is presented in this work. The present approach is an improvement to the conventional IB-LBM. In the conventional IB-LBM, the no-slip boundary condition is only approximately satisfied. As a result, there is flow penetration to the solid boundary. Another drawback of conventional IB-LBM is the use of Dirac delt...

Climate change has been identified as a causal factor for diverse ecological changes worldwide. Warming trends over the last couple of decades have coincided with the collapse of long-term population cycles in a broad range of taxa, although causal mechanisms are not well-understood. Larch budmoth (LBM) population dynamics across the European Alps, a classic example of regular outbreaks, inexpl...

Over the last decades, the development of high dimensional large-scale imaging devices increases the demand of fast and accurate image processing techniques. Due to its intrinsic advantages which allows to handle complex shapes and topological changes, the level set method (LSM) is an promising technique but is computational expensive. As a fast alternative approach for solving the level set eq...

Simulating inhomogeneous flows with different characteristic scales in coordinate directions using the collide-and-stream based lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) can be accomplished efficiently rectangular grids. We develop and investigate a new central moment LBM on non-orthogonal basis (referred to as RC-LBM). The equilibria which moments relax under collision this approach are obtained from ma...

OBJECTIVE In this study we compared fasting insulin and measures of insulin sensitivity (M) based on fasting insulin and glucose (i.e., homeostasis model assessment [HOMA], quantitative insulin sensitivity check index [QUICKI], and fasting glucose-to-insulin ratio [FGIR]) or triglycerides to the insulin clamp in a cohort of children/adolescents. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The subjects were M...

Lean body mass (LBM) and total body water (TBW) are reduced in GH-deficient (GHD) adults and alter with GH replacement. Whether these parameters are interdependent and whether alterations in their homeostasis contribute to the perceived quality of life (QOL) deficit in GHD remains unclear. In this study, IGF-I, body composition by whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, TBW by deuterium di...

We presented an application of the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to study the dynamics of Min proteins oscillations in Escherichia coli. The oscillations involve MinC, MinD and MinE proteins, which are required for proper placement of the division septum in the middle of a bacterial cell. Here, the LBM is applied to a set of the deterministic reaction diffusion equations which describes the dy...

Burgers equation is a simplified form of the Navier-Stokes equation that represents the non-linear features of it. In this paper, the transient two-dimensional non-linear Burgers equation is solved using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The results are compared with the Modified Local Crank-Nicolson method (MLCN) and exact solutions. The LBM has been emerged as a new numerical method for sol...