1Unit of Orthodontics and Paediatric Dentistry, Section of Dentistry, Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 2Facultad de Odontologı́a, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, MEX, Mexico 3Orthodontic Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 4Institute of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine, Univ...

The package contains ANSI C software with Matlab mex interface for structured total least squares estimation problems. The allowed structures in the data matrix are block-Toeplitz, block-Hankel, unstructured, and noise free. Combinations of blocks with this structures can be specified. The computational complexity of the algorithms is O(m), where m is the sample size.

This article presents a comparative study of three different types of estimators used for supervised linear unmixing of a MEx/OMEGA hyperspectral cube. The algorithms take into account the constraints of the abundance fractions, so as to get physically interpretable results. Abundance and spatial reconstruction error maps show that using a Bayesian MAP estimator, a satisfying compromise between...

The 2003 Beagle 2 Mars lander has been identified in Isidis Planitia at 90.43° E, 11.53° N, close to the predicted target of 90.50° E, 11.53° N. Beagle 2 was an exobiology lander designed to look for isotopic and compositional signs of life on Mars, as part of the European Space Agency Mars Express (MEX) mission. The 2004 recalculation of the original landing ellipse from a 3-sigma major axis f...

After fertilization in C. elegans, activities encoded by the maternally expressed par genes appear to establish cellular and embryonic polarity. Loss-of-function mutations in the par genes disrupt anterior-posterior (a-p) asymmetries in early embryos and result in highly abnormal patterns of cell fate. Little is known about how the early asymmetry defects are related to the cell fate patterning...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is one of the most important causes of nosocomial infections and has an intrinsic resistance to many antibiotics. Among all the resistance-nodulation-division (RND) pumps of P. aeruginosa, MexAB-OprM is the first efflux pump found to target multiple classes of antibiotics. This study was aimed to evaluate the expression level of genes expres...

The sweat glands maximum ion reabsorption rates were investigated (n = 12, 21.7 ± 3.0 years, 59.4 ± 9.8 kg, 166.9 ± 10.4 cm and 47.1 ± 7.5 mL/kg/min) during two separate endogenous protocols; cycling at 30% (LEX) and 60% VO2max (MEX) and one exogenous trial; passive heating (PH) (43°C water lower leg immersion) in 27°C, 50%RH. Oesophageal temperature (Tes ), skin temperature (Tsk ), and forearm...

We describe the emergence of a nephropathogenic avian infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) with a novel genotype in India. The Indian IBV isolate exhibited a relatively high degree of sequence divergence with reference strains. The highest homology was observed with strain 6/82 (68%) and the least homology with strain Mex/1765/99 (34.3%).

Introduction: Target transformation and factor analysis techniques are applied to the data returned by the Planetary Fourier spectrometer (PFS) on board the ESA Mars Express (MEX) mission. The data analyzed were obtained by the long wavelength channel (LWC) of PFS, in the range roughly from 300 to 1300 cm

Abstract Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) is a multipurpose thermoplastic and the second most popular material in extrusion (MEX) additive manufacturing (AM). It widely used various types of industrial applications automotive sector, housing, food processing, among others. This work investigates effect seven generic control parameters (orientation angle, raster deposition infill density, l...