Real time-qPCR is the most reliable method for evaluation of mRNA expression levels. However, to obtain accurate results, selection of suitable reference genes is necessary for normalizing the real-time qPCR data. The aim of this research was to validate the expression stability of three potential reference genes (ACTB, GAPDH and UXT) in milk somatic cells of Holstein dairy cattle under differe...

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for computing in a very efficient way the real intersection of three quadric surfaces. Our approach is based on the cylindrical decomposition ([4]) and the TOP algorithm ([10]) for analyzing the topology of a planar curve. We preform a symbolic pre-processing that allows us later to execute all numerical computations in a very accurate way.

Our goal is to reveal subtle yet informative signals in videos that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye. We can either display them in an indicative manner, or analyse them to extract important measurements, such as vital signs. Our method, which we call Eulerian Video Processing, takes a standard video sequence as input, and applies spatial decomposition, followed by temporal...