This state-of-the-art paper on the hydromechanical behavior of unsaturated soils focuses interpretation compression curves in terms effective stress, with goal understanding relative impacts suction net yield stress and slope virgin line (VCL) during a monotonic increase stress. A database was compiled for both high low plasticity fine-grained under wide range suctions, isotropic or oedometric ...

We report here a hepatoma-targeting multi-responsive biodegradable crosslinked nanogel, poly(6-O-vinyladipoyl-D-galactose-ss-N-vinylcaprolactam-ss-methacrylic acid) P(ODGal-VCL-MAA), using a combination of enzymatic transesterification and emulsion copolymerization for intracellular drug delivery. The nanogel exhibited redox, pH and temperature-responsive properties, which can be adjusted by va...

BACKGROUND The ability to predict the developmental and implantation ability of embryos remains a major goal in human assisted-reproductive technology (ART) and most ART laboratories use morphological criteria to evaluate the oocyte competence despite the poor predictive value of this analysis. Transcriptomic and proteomic approaches on somatic cells surrounding the oocyte (granulosa cells, cum...

BACKGROUND The cytoskeletal adaptor protein vinculin plays a fundamental role in cell contact regulation and affects central aspects of cell motility, which are essential to both embryonal development and tissue homeostasis. Functional regulation of this evolutionarily conserved and ubiquitously expressed protein is dominated by a high-affinity, autoinhibitory head-to-tail interaction that spat...

The present study aimed to classify gastric cancer (GC) into subtypes and to screen the subtype‑specific genes, their targeted microRNAs (miRNAs) and enriched pathways to explore the putative mechanism of each GC subtypes. The GSE13861 data set was downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus and used to screen differential expression genes (DEGs) in GC samples based on the detection of imbalanc...

Moving object environments are characterized by large numbers of moving objects and numerous concurrent continuous queries over these objects. Efficient evaluation of these queries in response to the movement of the objects is critical for supporting acceptable response times. In such environments the traditional approach of building an index on the objects (data) suffers from the need for freq...

Generating aircraft position, velocity, and attitude along a reference trajectory is useful in many path mission planning applications. In applications simulating an inertial navigation system the body-frame accelerations angular rates are also required. This work presents method for generating smoothed continuous-curvature from series of waypoints using line, arc, clothoid, Fermat spiral segme...

Ohne die Erfüllung dieser Kriterien sind VCL-Projekte nach unserer Erfahrung aus mittlerweile 14 konsequent evaluierten Projekten (davon 4 internationale Projekte) aus prüfungsrechtlichen und Akzeptanzgründen zum Scheitern verurteilt. Zur Aufwandsreduktion bei gleichzeitiger Qualitätssicherung ist Prozessrationalisierung durch gezielte Automation zwingend erforderlich. Diese teilen wir in die d...

This paper describes a new approach for detection of curvilinear regions. These features detection can be useful for any matching based algorithm such as stereoscopic vision. Our detector is based on curvilinear structure model, defined observing the real world. Then, we propose a multi-scale search algorithm of curvilinear regions and we report some preliminary results.