The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) plays a key role in the regulation of cellular metabolism, growth and proliferation. It forms two multi-protein complexes known as complex 1 (mTORC1) and 2 (mTORC2). Raptor and Rictor are the core proteins for mTORC1 and mTORC2, respectively. This study examines the relationship between mTORC1, Rictor and Raptor mRNA expression and human breast cancer. F...

Energy infrastructure, particularly for wind power, is rapidly expanding in Africa, creating the potential conflict with at-risk wildlife populations. Raptor populations are especially susceptible to negative impacts of fatalities from energy because individuals tend be long-lived and reproduce slowly. A major determinant risk collision between flying birds turbines altitude above ground at whi...

Registration of preoperative MR images and Ultrasound images are used for the purpose of accuracy in detecting the tumor. Image Guided Neurosurgery Systems (IGNS) can be used to track surgical tools with respect to the preoperative Magnetic Resonance (MR) images, brain tissue movement during surgery invalidates the image-topatient mapping and thus reduces the effectiveness of using preoperative...

Raptor biologists have successfully used backpack-type harnesses to attach transmitters a wide range of raptor species for research. As part graduate research project with Gray Hawks (Buteo plagiatus) in south Texas, we attached 58 individuals and experienced problems seven birds removing the all females covering solar panels OrniTrack-10 GPS-GSM transmitters, preventing them from functioning p...

Since 2008 Batumi Raptor Count (BRC) project has been monitoring autumn migration of birds prey in the eastern African-Palearctic flyway southwest Georgia on coast Black Sea. Every this is used by a significant proportion global population such raptor species as Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus), Montagu’s Harrier (Circus pygargus), Pallid (C. macrourus) and Marsh aeruginosus). At least 1% 10 mig...

We consider an error-resilient stereoscopic streaming system that uses an H.264-based multiview video codec and a rateless Raptor code for recovery from packet losses. One aim of the present work is to suggest a heuristic methodology for modeling the end-toend rate-distortion (RD) characteristic of such a system. Another aim is to show how to make use of such a model to optimally select the par...

Recent studies have underscored the importance of memory T cells in mediating protective immunity against pathogens and cancer. Pharmacological inhibition of regulators that mediate T cell differentiation promotes the differentiation of activated CD8(+) T cells into memory cells. Nonetheless, pharmacological agents have broad targets and can induce undesirable immunosuppressive effects. Here, w...

We study the problem of computing all Pareto-optimal journeys in a dynamic public transit network for two criteria: arrival time and number of transfers. Existing algorithms consider this as a graph problem, and solve it using variants of Dijkstra’s algorithm. Unfortunately, this leads to either high query times or suboptimal solutions. We take a different approach. We introduce RAPTOR, our nov...

Studies of multiple taxa across broad-scales suggest that species distributions are shifting poleward in response to global climate change. Understanding the influence of distribution shifts on regional population indices will be an important part of interpreting population trends within local management units because, compared to a time when distribution were less dynamic, changes in populatio...