Cytokinesis and spindle positioning require the cortical force regulator G Protein Regulator 1/2 (GPR-1/2). GPR-1/2 is thought to localize to sites of cortical force generation. Does GPR-1/2 also act as a sensor for mechanical stimulation? I mechanically stimulated the cortex by indenting it with a glass needle and observed the cortical localization of a YFP::GPR-1 transgene. I found that corti...

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is a widely used sensor for land mine detection. However, GPR signal return is very susceptible to ground bounce and reflection of clutter objects, which makes the detection a difficult problem to date. In this paper, we propose to utilize two-sided linear prediction (LP) to model the background interference and then employ the residue energy to generate the test ...

Ž . Ž A ground-penetrating radar GPR survey, using mostly a 500 MHz antenna, was carried out in an urban area Lecce, . Italy to obtain a detailed characterization of the most superficial layers, where presumably archaeological structures are buried, and to quickly identify anomalous zones for excavation. In the area, the presence of remnants of a historical Ž . Ž . Franciscan friary built in 14...

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data affected by waveguide dispersion are not straightforward to analyse. Therefore, waveguide dispersed common midpoint measurements are typically interpreted using so-called dispersion curves, which describe the phase velocity as a function of frequency. These dispersion curves are typically evaluated with deterministic optimization algorithms that derive the di...

Respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung infections have critical consequences on mortality and morbidity in humans. The aims of the present study were to examine the mechanisms by which CXCL12 affects MUC1 transcription and airway inflammation, which depend on activator of G-protein signaling (AGS) 3 and to identify specific molecules that sup...

Optimal crop emergence is an important trait in breeding for genotypic screening and achieving potential growth yield. Emergence conventionally quantified manually by counting the sub-sections of field plots or scoring; these are less reliable, laborious inefficient. Remote sensing technology being increasingly used high-throughput estimation agronomic traits crops. This study developed a metho...

Learning based super-resolution (SR) methods, which predict the high-resolution pixel values but not directly provide an estimation of uncertainty, are typically non-probabilistic and have limited generalization ability. Gaussian processes can provide a framework for deriving regression techniques with explicit uncertainty models, but Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) has a significant drawback...

In order to scale to large multiprocessors or clusters, transactional memories must reduce reliance on synchronisation. Therefore, we consider two favorable formal properties, namely Snapshot Isolation (SI, by which read-only transactions commit without synchronisation), and Genuine Partial Replication (GPR, by which a processor synchronises for a transaction only if it maintains a copy of some...

This paper focuses on new signal processing algorithms customized for an air coupled Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system targeting highway pavements and bridge deck inspections. The GPR hardware consists of a high-voltage pulse generator, a high speed 8 GSps real time data acquisition unit, and a customized field-programmable gate array (FPGA) control element. In comparis...