The augmented book is the system augmenting multimedia elements onto a book to bring additional education effects or amusement. A book includes many pages and many duplicated designs so that tracking a book is quite difficult. For the augmented book, we propose the hybrid visual tracking which merges the merits of two traditional approaches: fiducial marker tracking and markerless tracking. The...

We present a new quasidilaton theory of Poincare invariant massive gravity, based on the recently proposed framework of matter coupling that makes it possible for the kinetic energy of the quasidilaton scalar to couple to both physical and fiducial metrics simultaneously. We find a scaling-type exact solution that expresses a self-accelerating de Sitter universe, and then analyze linear perturb...

The effects of oscillations of atmospheric ν µ are observed in the 5.90 fiducial kiloton-year exposure of the Soudan 2 detector. An unbinned maximum likelihood analysis of the neutrino L/E distribution has been carried out using the Feldman-Cousins prescription. The probability of the no oscillation hypothesis is 5.8 × 10 −4. The 90% confidence allowed region in the sin 2 2θ, ∆m 2 plane is pres...

Methods We described the biogeographical provinces of lower Mesoamerica (LMA) using presence/absence data of primary and secondary LMA freshwater fishes. We conducted subsequent analyses at the spatial resolution of the biogeographical provinces and described patterns of community composition, species richness, endemism, range size, and the permeability of dispersal barriers between biogeograph...

As a preliminary study, we have found that honey from manuka (Leptospermum scoparium) in New Zealand inhibits myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity. In this study, using a chromatographic technique, we isolated two active compounds for MPO-inhibition from manuka honey. One is methyl syringate (MSYR), and the other was identified as a novel glycoside of MSYR, methyl syringate 4-O-β-D-gentiobiose, which...

A comprehensive comparison of positive matrix factorization (PMF) and molecular marker-based chemical mass balance (CMB-MM) modeling on PM2.5 source contributions was conducted for particulate matter measurements taken at Jefferson Street, Atlanta, Georgia (JST). The datasets used in each type of receptor modeling were different: CMB-MM used data of primarily organic tracers plus a couple eleme...

background and objectives : dna molecular weight marker is widely used in molecular biology experiments incurring considerable costs on low-budget settings. materials and methods : here a pcr-supported procedure is described that uses 10 primer pairs targeting chromosomal dna from the harmless vaccinal bacillus anthracis sterne 34f2 strain as template. a single pcr protocol is used to reproduce...

conclusions the established method has an acceptable performance in quantifying yb-1. in addition, serum yb-1 may aid in the diagnosis of hcc. results the developed method was linear to 150 μg/l of yb-1 with a minimum detection limit of 0.01 μg/l. the average recoveries were between 93.9% and 109.0%. the mean intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation (cvs) were 4.0-4.8% and 8.2-10.2%, re...

results in a group of adult patients with chb, anxa2 values were far higher than those of the control group (p = 0.001). when we assessed anxa2 levels based on fibrosis stages, serum anxa2 levels of patients with early stage fibrosis (stages 1 - 3) were significantly higher than those of patients with advanced stage fibrosis (stages 4 - 5; p = 0.001). patients and methods this study included 17...

background: the differentiation of infected diabetic foot ulcers (idfu) from non infected diabetic foot ulcers (nidfu) is a challenging issue for clinicians. objectives: recently, procalcitonin (pct) was introduced as a remarkable inflammatory marker. we aimed to evaluate the accuracy of pct in comparison to other inflammatory markers for distinguishing idfu from nidfu. conclusions: these resul...