Application of image-guided surgical systems to otologic surgery has been limited by the need for submillimeter accuracy via a fiducial system that is easily useable (i.e. noninvasive and nonobstructive). To overcome these limitations and demonstrate the feasibility of image-guided otologic surgery, a novel fiducial marker system was constructed which attaches to a dental biteblock and has fidu...

De in Chinese relative clauses is commonly analyzed as a complementizer signifying a relative clause. In this paper we argue that De has two roles in RCs. Besides being a relativization marker, which is its basic function, De can also mark the realis state of the event expressed by the RC. Being a realis state marker, De needs to bind an event variable, which can be supplied by the VP in the RC...

Trichoderma “viride” TNAU is the most widely used biofungicide in India with more than 250 registered commercial formulations being available. We have studied the phylogenetic position of this strain using a molecular marker and determined that this commercial strain is, in fact, a strain of Trichoderma asperelloides, and not T. viride. The implications of these findings on the registration and...

treated tumor (center). The peak pyruvate signal has been scale to 1 and the origin of time (t=0) has been chosen to coincide with the peak of the pyruvate signal. The panel at right shows an axial proton image of the tumor (indicated by the green ellipse) and the location of the surface coil (indicated by the red line). The diagonal line at upper left is a water-filled fiducial marker. Monitor...

A completely automatic face recognition system is presented. The method works on color and gray level images: after having localized the face and the facial features, it determines 16 facial fiducial points, and characterizes them applying a bank of filters which extract the peculiar texture around them (jets). Recognition is realized measuring the similarity between the different jets. The sys...

In this paper, we use the Type Ia supernovae data to constrain the holographic dark energy model proposed by Li. We also apply a cosmic age test to this analysis. We consider in this paper a spatially flat FRW universe with matter component and holographic dark energy component. The fit result shows that the case c < 1 is favored, which implies that the holographic dark energy behaves as a quin...

The paper describes the proper interpretation of the fiducial argument, as given by Fisher in (only) his first papers on the subject. It argues that far from being a quaint, little, isolated idea, this was the first attempt to build a bridge between aleatory probabilities (the only ones used by Neyman) and epistemic probabilities (the only ones used by Bayesians), by implicitly introducing, as ...

The present study examines the uses of the reflexive marker in Lusaamia, a Bantu language of Kenya. In addition to being a true reflexive, the reflexive verbal prefix is also used in indirect reflexive constructions, as a middle voice / stative marker, and also to indicate when an action is being done for no particular purpose (when used in conjunction with a causative marker). I show that unac...

the hla class ii genes of human major histocompatibility complex (mhc) exhibit an extensive degree of genetic polymorphism. this region subdivides into four sub-regions dp, do, dq, and dr. there are five different dr haplotypes that all contain a highly polymorphic allele called hla-drb1. in most recent studies, the association between hla-drb1 and a large number of diseases such as multiple sc...