Early in 1967, preliminary reports were made from our institutions (Starzl, Marchioro et al. 1967; Starzl, Porter et a/., 1967) of the first clinical use of heterologous antilymphocyte globulin (ALG). T h ~ s immunosuppressive agent was prepared from the serum of horses that had been immunized against cadaveric lymphoid tissue, especially spleens (Iwasaki et al., 1967). It was added to therapy ...

Blind signal extraction, a hot issue in the field of communication signal processing, aims to retrieve the sources through the optimization of contrast functions. Many contrasts based on higher-order statistics such as kurtosis, usually behave sensitive to outliers. Thus, to achieve robust results, nonlinear functions are utilized as contrasts to approximate the negentropy criterion, which is a...

Consider a trader who exchanges one dollar into yen and assume that the exchange rate fluctuates within the interval [m,M ]. The game ends without advance notice, then the trader is forced to exchange all the remaining dollars at the minimum rate m. El-Yaniv et al. presented the optimal worst-case threat-based strategy for this game [EFKT01]. In this paper, under the assumption that the distrib...

In the script there is a definition for the competitiveness of an algorithm. However, this definition only holds if we want to evaluate an algorithm by means of its costs. Sometimes, we want to compare algorithms regarding their benefit rather than their costs. In this case, we have to be a bit careful with the definition of a c-competitive algorithm. We say that an algorithm Alg is c-competiti...

In the script there is a definition for the competitiveness of an algorithm. However, this definition only holds if we want to evaluate an algorithm by means of its costs. Sometimes, we want to compare algorithms regarding their benefit rather than their costs. In this case, we have to be a bit careful with the definition of a c-competitive algorithm. We say that an algorithm Alg is c-competiti...

The cytoplasmic protein Alix/AIP1 (ALG-2 interacting protein X) is involved in cell death through mechanisms which remain unclear but require its binding partner ALG-2 (apoptosis-linked gene-2). The latter was defined as a regulator of calcium-induced apoptosis following endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. We show here that Alix is also a critical component of caspase 9 activation and apoptosis ...

Notation. We will use some notation [mostly] from the class. A is the set of arms, T is the time horizon, K is the number of arms. At each round t, at is the arm chosen by the algorithm, and ct(a) is the cost of arm a. Total cost of arm a is cost(a) = ∑T t=1 ct(a). The best total cost for a subset S of arms is defined as cost∗(S) = infa∈S cost(a). The total cost of an algorithm ALG is cost(ALG)...

An automatic anatomy segmentation method is proposed which effectively combines the Active Appearance Model, Live Wire and Graph Cut (ALG) ideas to exploit their complementary strengths. It consists of three main parts: model building, initialization, and delineation. For the initialization (recognition) part, a pseudo strategy is employed and the organs are segmented slice by slice via the OAA...

Alginate (Alg) is increasingly studied as a constitutive material of scaffolds for tissue engineering because its easy gelation and biocompatibility, the incorporation drugs into formulation allows functionality to be extended. However, Alg presents low cell adhesion proliferation capacity, may further reduce biocompatibility. Layered double hydroxides (LDH) are promising fillers Alg-based biom...