A Self-Organizing Map (SOM) is an effective tool for clustering and visualizing high-dimensional complex data on a two-dimensional map. We modified the conventional SOM to genome informatics, making the learning process and resulting map independent of the order of data input, and developed a novel bioinformatics tool for phylogenetic classification of sequence fragments obtained from pooled ge...

We have investigated the relationship between the sperm-triggered Ca2+ oscillations and the activities of two cell cycle kinases (MPF activity and MAP kinase activity) at fertilisation of Ascidiella aspersa oocytes. Maturation Promoting Factor (MPF) activity is elevated in the metaphase I (MI)-arrested unfertilised oocyte (as measured by phosphorylation of exogenous histone H1) and falls 5 minu...

Some of the Adamantane properties were calculated in this study. Chemical shift, free energy ofsolvation, free energy of cavity formation, Henry's law constant, and other properties ofAdamantane in dry phase, three solvents and three temperatures have been calculated with Abinitio method base on density functional theory (DFT) at B3lyp/6-31g, B31yp/6-31g*, B3lyp/6-31+g* and B3lyp/6-31++g** leve...

The location and topography of the first three visual field maps in the human brain, V1-V3, are well agreed upon and routinely measured across most laboratories. The position of 4 th visual field map, 'hV4', is identified with less consistency in the neuroimaging literature.  Using magnetic resonance imaging data, we describe landmarks to help identify the position and borders of 'hV4'. The dat...

In order to segment nucleus and cytoplasm of single cervical cell in the semear images accurately, a novel Gradient Vector Field (GVF) Snake is proposed by improving edge map of GVF Snake (PGVF) to enhance the capacity of the active contour model of gradient vector field to locate the boundary of nuclei and cytoplasmic. In our method, the image is converted into polar coordinates and the Sobel ...

The terminus region of the chromosome of Escherichia coli contains two separate sites, called T1 and T2, that inhibit replication forks. T1 is located near 28.5 min, which is adjacent to trp, and T2 is located at 34.5-35.7 min on the opposite side of the terminus region, near manA. The sites act in a polar fashion, and replication forks traveling in a clockwise direction with respect to the gen...

The aim of this article is focused on the design of an obstacle detection system for assisting visually impaired people. A dense disparity map is computed from the images of a stereo camera carried by the user. By using the dense disparity map, potential obstacles can be detected in 3D in indoor and outdoor scenarios. A ground plane estimation algorithm based on RANSAC plus filtering techniques...

Let λ ∈ (0, 1) and let T be a r × r complex matrix with polar decomposition T = U |T |. Then, the λAluthge transform is defined by ∆λ (T ) = |T | U |T |. Let ∆nλ(T ) denote the n-times iterated Aluthge transform of T , n ∈ N. We prove that the sequence {∆nλ(T )}n∈N converges for every r × r diagonalizable matrix T . We show regularity results for the two parameter map (λ, T ) 7→ ∆∞λ (T ), and w...

We review the problem of the tuneshift correction of symplectic maps and its applications to accelerator physics. The normal form techniques used to compute the correcting terms are outlined both in two and four dimensional phase space. A theorem which gives an upper bound to the growth of the coeecients of the correcting map is proved. Two ways of correcting the tuneshift are discussed: a comp...