Scientific activity 1. Multimedia (video) Quality of Experience evaluation The first topic I worked on is the multimedia user Quality of Experience evaluation. I created a new video metric based on Eye-Tracking data to measure the perceived Quality of Experience of users subject to different quality level video stimuli. My proposal is based on my graduation thesis that proved how, if the databa...

Yield of the perennial grass Miscanthus × giganteus has shown an inconsistent and unpredictable response to nitrogen (N) fertilizer, yet fertilization underpins crop’s environmental economic sustainability. The interactions among soil microbial communities, N availability, management may explain changes in plant productivity. In this study, samples from different stand ages a replicated chronos...

Abstract We have shown that short children significantly reduced pituitary volume (PV)s and speculated PV as a cause for diminished chronic growth hormone (GH) secretion poor growth. In this study, we further elucidate the role of in etiology stature (SS) larger cohort siblings (SBs).The database Peds Endo Center between 2013-21 was queried with SS who underwent GH Stimulation test (GHST) MRI e...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) expresses six known glycoproteins. High level expression of recombinant soluble forms of the VZV glycoproteins E and I (gE and gI) was achieved in the baculovirus system. gE and gI associate in VZV-infected cells to form an intermolecular complex. To purify large amounts of these glycoproteins, gE was produced with a C-terminal six-histidine (HIS-6) tag sequence, an...

Laser capture microdissection (LCM) facilitates the isolation of individual cells from tissue sections, and when combined with RNA amplification techniques, it is an extremely powerful tool for examining genome-wide expression profiles in specific cell-types. LCM has been widely used to address various biological questions in both animal and plant systems, however, no attempt has been made so f...