The focus of this paper is to present the results of our investigation and evaluation of various shared-memory parallelizations of the data association problem in multitarget tracking. The multitarget tracking algorithm developed was for a sparse air traffic surveillance problem, and is based on an Interacting Multiple Model (IMM) state estimator embedded into the (2D) assignment framework. The...

Outer mitochondrial membrane (OMM) rupture was first noted in isolated mitochondria in which the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM) had lost its selective permeability. This phenomenon referred to as mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) refers to a permeabilized inner membrane that originates a large swelling in the mitochondrial matrix, which distends the outer membrane until it rupture...

BACKGROUND: In this research inactivity was simulated by immobilizing the forearm region in a plaster cast. Changes in skeletal muscle oxidative function were measured using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and the preventative effect of the training protocol on deterioration of skeletal muscle and the clinical utility of NIRS were examined. METHODS: Fourteen healthy adult men underwent immob...

Newborns with a genetic deficiency of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) are normal, but exhibit a specific T-cell immunodeficiency during the first years of development. All other cell and organ systems remain functional. The biological significance of human PNP is degradation of deoxyguanosine, and apoptosis of T-cells occurs as a consequence of the accumulation of deoxyguanosine in the ci...

This paper conducts a performance evaluation for the ultra‐tight integration of a Global positioning system (GPS) and an inertial navigation system (INS), using nonlinear filtering approaches with an interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm. An ultra‐tight GPS/INS architecture involves the integration of in‐phase and quadrature components from the correlator of...

BACKGROUND IMM-101 is a heat-killed innate and adaptive immune-activating mycobacterial product; a phase I study aimed to determine its safety and tolerability in individuals with melanoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS An intra-patient placebo-controlled study evaluated the safety and tolerability of three doses, namely, 0.1 (1 mg/ml), 0.5 (5 mg/ml) and 1.0 mg (10 mg/ml) of IMM-101 in stage III or IV...

Organ volume is a critical parameter in morphometric analysis. The special problems of the lung as a nonsolid organ are overcome by tracheal instillation of fixatives at a constant airway pressure (P(aw)). Lung volume can change significantly after fixation as P(aw) change. To determine the variation of lung volume after fixation, we measured the volume of intact fixed lungs by serial immersion...

Given a surface F , we are interested in Z/2 valued invariants of immersions of F intoR3, which are constant on each connected component of the complement of the quadruple point discriminant in Imm(F,R3). Such invariants will be called “q-invariants.” Given a regular homotopy class A ⊆ Imm(F,R3), we denote by Vn(A) the space of all q-invariants on A of order ≤ n. We show that if F is orientable...

G. G. Scapellato,1 S. Boninelli,1 E. Napolitani,2 E. Bruno,1 A. J. Smith,3 S. Mirabella,1 M. Mastromatteo,2 D. De Salvador,2 R. Gwilliam,3 C. Spinella,4 A. Carnera,2 and F. Priolo1 1MATIS IMM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Catania, via S. Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy 2MATIS IMM-CNR and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova, via Marzolo 8, 35131 Padova, Italy...