This work presents a method that permits the characterization, quantification, and 3D visualization of white matter structural information contained within diffusion tensor MR imaging (DT-MRI) data. In this method, regions within the brain are defined as possessing linear, planar, or spherical diffusion. Visualization of this diffusion metric data is realized by generating streamtube and stream...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.09.018 0003-3472/© 2015 The Authors. Published on behalf of license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd Parental care is associated with costs. Communal offspring care in species with altricial young may reduce the costs for a parent, but it comes with a risk of exploitation, jeopardizing the evolution of stable cooperation. Female house mice c...

The increasing globalization of the medical profession has influenced health policy, health human resource planning, and medical regulation in Canada. Since the early 2000s, numerous policy initiatives have been created to facilitate the entry of international medical graduates (IMGs) into the Canadian workforce. In Ontario, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) developed alt...

A general deformation of the Heisenberg algebra is introduced with two deformed operators instead of just one. This is generalised to many variables, and permits the simultaneous existence of coherent states, and the transposition of creation operators.

The Cell-DEVS formalism was created as an extension of cellular automata for modeling complex systems using a discrete event formal approach. We examine the application of the Cell-DEVS formalism to a maze-solving application. The model uses the CD++ toolkit to model and simulate the proposed maze applications, showing that this approach permits solving complex applications by implementing them...

We develop a tractable model of the allocation of control in firms in competitive markets, which permits us to study how changes in the scarcity of assets, skills or liquidity in the market translate into control inside the organization. Firms will be more integrated when the terms of trade are more favorable to the short side of the market, when liquidity is unequally distributed among existin...

License to glue eplication of DNA and cohesion of the resultant sister chromatids are two activities that must be coordinated. found that the same " licensing " process that gets DNA ready for replication is also necessary to allow loading of the cohesin complex responsible for sister chromatid cohesion. Gillespie and Hirano used the sequence of yeast cohesin-loading proteins to identify human ...

This paper presents a novel method of identifying and recognizing license plates, required by an automatic vehicle identification system. The main challenge was the isolation of the car’s license plate, from the digital image acquired by the video system, under different illumination conditions and various angles. Thus, we have established the required preprocessing operations leading to succes...