How the visual system reconstructs global patterns of motion from components is an important issue in vision. Conventional studies using plaids have shown that approximately one-third of neurons in cortical area MT respond to one-dimensional (1D) components of a moving pattern (component cells), whereas another third responds to the global two-dimensional (2D) motion of a pattern (pattern cells...

An acute and highly reproducible motor axon terminal degeneration followed by complete regeneration is induced by some animal presynaptic neurotoxins, representing an appropriate and controlled system to dissect the molecular mechanisms underlying degeneration and regeneration of peripheral nerve terminals. We have previously shown that nerve terminals exposed to spider or snake presynaptic neu...

The concept that sepsis is the result of an uncontrolled inflammatory response of the host's innate immune system towards invading pathogens has recently been challenged. Evidence is accumulating that, in addition, host-derived alarm molecules are released during sepsis- and trauma-associated cell death, thus triggering the host's immune response. The identification and characterization of exog...

High mobility group box 1 (HMGB 1): a new protein in the pathogenesis of ENT inflammatory and infectious diseases HMGB 1 una nuova proteina nella patogenesi della patologia infiammatoria ed infettiva ORL in addition to the well-known components of the immune response to inflammation, other inflammatory pathways have been recently invoked. Among these, an inflammatory molecule called high mobili...

Cutaneous manifestations are the most common presenting sign of chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) and extent cutaneous involvement is also highly correlated with prognosis. Very little understood about underlying pathogenesis underpinning injury at this location, especially contribution keratinocytes other structural skin cells. We performed single-cell RNA-sequencing to compare transcr...

In a formant tracking algorithm, combining both local viewpoint and global aspect of formant trajectories is dif icul t . W e present an approach which incorporates local processing t o build e lementary tracks and an active method which generates rough formant track hypotheses and makes the resulting trajectories move towards the formant trajectories.

The present study describes a model which, by using pattern recognition procedures, detects defects on the external surface of pieces and industrial products, especially those whose borders are indefinite. In addition to describing the model, a practical application and the results obtained are described, including an important extension of this work, i.e. the comparison of pieces with standard...