Detailed oro-maxillofacial studies using dental casts, pantomograms and cephalograms were performed in 28 patients with Turner's syndrome and compared statistically to the results from 23 normal short children. Small tooth crown size, short tooth roots and advanced dental age were characteristic of patients with Turner's syndrome. However, the incidence of peg shaped teeth, malocclusion, high a...

A macroscopic cable equation, which describes the passive linear ("electrotonic") response of a myelinated axon, was previously derived from a segmented cable equation using Keller's two-space homogenization method [Basser, PJ, Med. and Biol. Comput., 1993, Vol. 31, pp. S87-S92]. Here we use the space and length constants of this averaged cable equation to predict classical scaling laws that go...

Here, we study the characteristic feature of conventional (ON-OFF keying) and soliton based transmission system. We consider 20Gbps transmission system implemented with Conventional Single Mode Fiber (C-SMF) to examine the role of Gaussian pulse which is the characteristic of conventional propagation and Hyperbolic-secant pulse which is the characteristic of soliton propagation in it. We note t...

In a binary tree T of N leaves, the left (right) level l i (r i) of leaf i is the number of left (right) edges in path from the root to that leaf. The level n i of leaf i is n i = l i +r i. Kraft-McMillan's characteristic inequality gives a necessary and suucient condition for a multiset of integers fn 1 ; n 2 ; :::; n N g to be the length ensemble of a binary tree T. Similarly, Yeung's charact...

The Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) learning strengthens or weakens synaptic weights of a neural network according to differences of synaptic spike timings. By the STDP rule, the neural network temporally evolves by learning an input spatiotemporal pattern. In the learning process, estimating a characteristic path length and a clustering coefficient, we examined how a structure of the ...

Based on the research of predicting β-hairpin motifs in proteins, we apply Random Forest and Support Vector Machine algorithm to predict β-hairpin motifs in ArchDB40 dataset. The motifs with the loop length of 2 to 8 amino acid residues are extracted as research object and the fixed-length pattern of 12 amino acids are selected. When using the same characteristic parameters and the same test me...

The aqueous solution structure of the full-length recombinant ovine prion protein PrP(25-233), together with that of the N-terminal truncated version PrP(94-233), have been studied using vibrational Raman optical activity (ROA) and ultraviolet circular dichroism (UVCD). A sharp positive band at approximately 1315 cm(-1) characteristic of poly(L-proline) II (PPII) helix that is present in the RO...