To cope with life-threatening high osmolarity, yeast activates the high-osmolarity glycerol (HOG) signaling pathway, whose core element is the Hog1 MAP kinase cascade. Activated Hog1 regulates the cell cycle, protein translation, and gene expression. Upstream of the HOG pathway are functionally redundant SLN1 and SHO1 signaling branches. However, neither the osmosensor nor the signal generator ...

In the current scenario, information retrieval is one of the major research areas. The retrieval process in image databases, evaluation of similarity and their mutual relationships depends on the content representation with various features. Since 1992, the multidimensional research has been carried out to meet out the aim with color, shape, texture and spatial layout as the features. In this p...

Previous studies (1, 2) have indicated that gluconate is extensively metabolized in the mammal without, prior conversion to glucose. The int,erpretation of experiments performed with labeled gluconate has rested upon the assumption (3) that gluconate is converted to 6-phosphogluconate in t,he course of its metabolism. The enzyme, gluconokinase, which catalyzes this reaction has been partially p...

In this paper, we propose a shear high-order gradient (SHOG) operator by combining the and (HOG) operator. Compared with HOG operator, proposed SHOG can incorporate more directionality detect abundant edge information. Based on extend total variation (TV) norm to (SHOTV), then SHOTV deblurring model. We also study some properties of show that matrices are Block Circulant Blocks (BCCB) when angl...

The reaction between hog renin and rat angiotensinogen followed Michaelis-Menten kinetics. A Km value of 1,109 ng angiotensin/ml was determined for the rate of angiotensin formation at pH 7.4 and 37°C. The pH optimum for the reaction of hog renin with rat angiotensinogen was between 6.8 and 7.0. Pepstatin inhibited the reaction in a noncompetitive way. The maximum inhibitory effect occurred at ...

Due to the increasingly need for automatic traffic monitoring, vehicle license plate detection is of high interest to perform automatic toll collection, traffic law enforcement, parking lot access control, among others. In this paper, a sliding window approach based on Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features is used for Brazilian license plate detection. This approach consists in scannin...

Object detection and localization in an image can be achieved by representing an object as a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG). HOGs have proven to be robust object descriptors. However, to achieve accurate object localization, one must take a sliding window approach and evaluate the similarity of the descriptor over all possible windows in an image. In case that search should also be scale...

We developed a novel learning-based human detection system, which can detect people having different sizes and orientations, under a wide variety of backgrounds or even with crowds. To overcome the affects of geometric and rotational variations, the system automatically assigns the dominant orientations of each block-based feature encoding by using the rectangularand circulartype histograms of ...

Twenty-eight hog-nosed skunks (Conepatus leuconotus), 23 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), and nine spotted skunks (Spilogale gracilis) from an area of sympatry in west-central Texas were examined for helminth parasites. Shared helminth species among all three host species were one nematode (Physaloptera maxillaris), two acanthocephalans (Pachysentis canicola, Macracanthorhynchus ingens), and...

Automatic target recognition (ATR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images plays an important role in both national defense and civil applications. Although many methods have been proposed, SAR ATR is still very challenging due to the complex application environment. Feature extraction and classification are key points in SAR ATR. In this paper, we first design a novel feature, which is a hist...