1 Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University, Coupure links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium. e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] * Corresponding author, phone: +32 9 264 61 79; fax: +32 9 264 62 20; 2 Department of Electrical Energy, Systems and Automation, Ghent University, Technologiepark 913, B-9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium. e-mail: mihaela...

leprosy. 110 patients who underwent claw hand correction between 2002 and 2006 were followed up and studied. Brand’s criteria for objective assessment and a visual analog scale for subjective assessment were used. The factors studied were age, sex, clinical, duration of paralysis, long flexor tightness, degree of contracture and type of surgery. Objective assessment showed Excellent or Good res...

Background: Gram-positive bacteria of the genus Rhodococcus have shown an extraordinary capacity for metabolizing recalcitrant organic compounds. One hindrance to the full exploitation of Rhodococcus is the dearth of genetic tools available for strain manipulation. To address this issue, we sought to develop a plasmid-based system for genetic manipulation of a variety of Rhodococcus strains. Re...

Recently, the subject of “green chemistry” has received considerable attention from academic and industrial researchers alike.1 While the central tenets of waste reduction, process economy and elimination of risks and hazards have long been embraced by industrial process chemists, the current focus on green chemistry concerns has led to renewed appreciation for the importance of these topics. T...

This document describes an RTP payload format for the ReducedComplexity Decoding Operation (RCDO) for H.264 Baseline profile bitstreams, as specified in ITU-T Recommendation H.241. RCDO reduces the decoding cost and resource consumption of the video processing. The RCDO RTP payload format is based on the H.264 RTP payload format.

For the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, there are purely hardware codec and solely software solutions. They are known to have either the best performance in terms of energy and speed or the flexibility. This project aims at examine the possible partitions between HW/SW and evaluate its tradeoffs between the flexibility and performance. Keywords-H.264, bitstream, deblocking filter

Alterations in the p53 gene occur frequently and can lead to accumulation of p53 protein in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck (SCCHN). Since accumulation of p53 is associated with enhanced presentation of wild-type sequence (wt) p53 peptides to immune cells, the development of pan vaccines against SCCHN has focused on wt p53 epitopes. We used the HLA-A2.1-restricted wt p53(264-272) ...