Detection of boundaries of materials stored in transparent vessels is essential for identifying properties such as liquid level and phase boundaries, which are vital for controlling numerous processes in the industry and chemistry laboratory. This work presents a computer vision method for identifying the boundary of materials in transparent vessels using the graph-cut algorithm. The method rec...

We report the isolation of a cDNA encoding a mammalian homeoprotein related to the Drosophila cut gene product, called Clox, for Cut like homeobox. In addition to the homeodomain, three 73-amino acid repeats, the so-called cut repeats, are also conserved between Cut and the mammalian counterpart described here. This conservation suggests that the cut repeat motif may define a new class of homeo...

OBJECTIVE To compare the sensitivity and specificity of body mass index (BMI)-based classification systems and to determine the optimal cut-offs for predicting excess body fatness in schoolchildren. METHODS 2795 schoolchildren aged 7 - 10 years were examined. Excess body fatness was defined as the standardized residuals of the sum of three skinfold thickness ranking at or above the 90th perce...

Treatments to inhibit browning and decay and prolong shelf life of fresh-cut mangoes were investigated. Combinations of antibrowning agents and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) resulted in a reduction of browning and deterioration of fresh-cut mangoes stored at 10 degrees C. Combinations of several browning inhibitors were more effective than those applied individually. Among these treatment...

7-fs-pulses with 0.3 mJ are obtained after filamentation in argon and compression by double-chirped-mirrors. These pulses are used to generate high-order harmonics in a semi-infinite gas cell in different noble gases. Spectral broadening of high-order harmonics in xenon and argon is observed. In neon, an extended continuous cut-off region down to 10 nm (124 eV) is observed which is to the best ...

Axons of the lobster deep abdominal extensor muscles were cut, and the resulting effects on their synaptic properties were observed. Decentralized axons continued to conduct action potentials and to release transmitter for at least a year after the cut. In controls, the single quanta were brief, and their decay phase could be fit by a single exponent, with a time constant of about 2 msec. Quant...

We assessed the concurrent validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) against the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (Ham-D) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). Forty-six non-demented PD patients were assessed by a neurologist on the Ham-D. Patients also completed four mood rating scales: the HADS, the GDS, the VAS and the Face...

maintaining quality and longevity of cut flowers is one of the critical issues in the floriculture industry, especially in cut flowers; and one of the most important problems in chrysanthemum, as one of the most popular cut flowers. therefore, an experiment was conducted based on completely randomized design as pulse treatment with the three factors: tea extracts with 4 levels (5, 10, 20, and 4...

The max-cut problem is to partition the vertices of a weighted graph G = (V,E) into two subsets such that the weight sum of the edges crossing the two subsets is maximized. This paper presents a memetic max-cut algorithm (MACUT) that relies on a dedicated multi-parent crossover operator and a perturbation-based tabu search procedure. Experiments on 30 G-set benchmark instances show that MACUT c...

Does biting food lead to aggressive behavior? An experimental study is reported where children ages 6-10 (n = 12) were served chicken either on-the-bone or pre-cut in bite-size pieces. When children ate on-the-bone chicken, they exhibited more aggressive behavior than pre-cut, boneless chicken. For example, children were more likely to violate the counselor's instructions by leaving the eating ...