With the advent of class II tetramer technology, a tetramer-guided epitope mapping (TGEM) technique was developed for the identification of CD4+ T cell epitopes. This allowed the direct identification of epitopes recognized by the responding T cells, which were restricted to the single MHC allele of interest. However, as each individual carries multiple class II alleles, it would be advantageou...

This work proposes a novel technique for the extraction of descriptors of a texture image. The method consists in modeling the image through a complex network, based on the distribution of gray-level intensities. Therefore, we process the adjacency matrix as a geometrical object and compute its fractal dimension. Thus we apply a multiscale transform over the powerlaw fractal curve, obtaining th...

combating desertification which is a serious threat for the environment and human welfare requires understanding complex issues of this phenomenon using evaluation, awareness of severity of it's processes and determination of it's factors. so here, after recognizing the characteristics of the region showing existence desertification, we assess its current status with emphasis on clima...

estimation and mapping of forest resources are preconditions for management, planning and research. in this study, we applied kriging interpolation of geostatistics for estimation and mapping of forest stock at-tributes in a natural, uneven-aged, unmanaged forest in the caspian region of northern iran. the site of the study has an area of 516 ha and an elevation that ranges from 1100 to 1450 m ...

The Mumford conjecture, Madsen-Weiss and homological stability for mapping class groups of surfaces 3 Introduction 3 Lecture 1. The Mumford conjecture and the Madsen-Weiss theorem 5 1. The Mumford conjecture 5 2. Moduli space, mapping class groups and diffeomorphism groups 5 3. The Mumford-Morita-Miller classes 7 4. Homological stability 7 5. The Madsen-Weiss theorem 9 6. Exercices 10 Lecture 2...

Traditional approaches for genetic mapping are to simply associate the genotypes of a quantitative trait locus (QTL) with the phenotypic variation of a complex trait. A more mechanistic strategy has emerged to dissect the trait phenotype into its structural components and map specific QTLs that control the mechanistic and structural formation of a complex trait. We describe and assess such a st...

The evolution in 3-D electroanatomic contact mapping systems has helped to considerably enhance the electrophysiologists’ understanding of real-time position management and mapping, thus to enable more precise catheter navigation within heart. These 3-D contact mapping techniques help to define the patient's cardiac anatomy in a better way for successful electrophysiological procedures by takin...