this study investigates the contributions of atlantic ocean to june-august rainfall over uganda and western kenya (ku). the study has utilized the datasets including precipitation from the global precipitation climatology centre, north atlantic oscillation index (naoi), south atlantic ocean dipole index (saodi), era-interim reanalysis, and the atlantic ocean sea surface temperature (sst). singu...

The traditional singular value decomposition (SVD) method is unable to diagnose the weak fault feature of bearings effectively, which means, it difficult retain effective components (SCs). Therefore, a new method, SVD based on FIC (fault information content), proposed, takes amplitude characteristics frequency as selection index components. Firstly, Hankel matrix original signal constructed, an...

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most useful matrix decompositions in linear algebra. Here, a novel application SVD recovering ripped photos was exploited. Recovery done by applying truncated iteratively. Performance evaluated using Frobenius norm. Results from few experimental were decent.

BACKGROUND Hyperhomocysteinemia was believed to be an independent risk factor for stroke and associate with small vessel disease (SVD) related stroke and large vessel disease (LVD) related stroke differently. However it's still unclear which type of stroke associated with homocysteine (HCY) more strongly because the conclusions of previous studies were contradictory. In this study we focused on...

BACKGROUND Higher dietary salt intake increases the risk of stroke and may increase white matter hyperintensity (WMH) volume. We hypothesized that a long-term higher salt intake may be associated with other features of small vessel disease (SVD). METHODS We recruited consecutive patients with mild stroke presenting to the Lothian regional stroke service. We performed brain magnetic resonance ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Homocysteine is an endothelial toxin and elevated levels have been associated with stroke risk. Stroke, particularly the small vessel disease (SVD) subtype, is increased in U.S. and UK black populations. In white populations elevated homocysteine has been associated with SVD, especially confluent leukoaraiosis, and may be acting through endothelial dysfunction. We determi...

OBJECTIVES We evaluate the alternative use of texture analysis for evaluating the role of blood-brain barrier (BBB) in small vessel disease (SVD). METHODS We used brain magnetic resonance imaging from 204 stroke patients, acquired before and 20 min after intravenous gadolinium administration. We segmented tissues, white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and applied validated visual scores. We mea...

Chlamydia is the most widespread sexually transmitted bacterial disease and a prophylactic vaccine is highly needed. Ideally, this vaccine is required to induce a combined response of Th1 cell-mediated immune (CMI) response in concert with neutralizing antibodies. Using a novel Göttingen minipig animal model, we evaluated the immunogenicity and efficacy of a multi-subunit vaccine formulated in ...