The inundation impact of sea level rise (SLR) is critical, since coastal regions of Europe house important critical infrastructures and large population centers. According to International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) studies, the analysis of the SLR problem is complicated. Beyond the reported complexities involved in the analysis of this phenomenon, the expected spatial variability of SLR in...

More than 18 million seabirds nest on 58 Pacific islands protected within vast U.S. Marine National Monuments (1.9 million km2). However, most of these seabird colonies are on low-elevation islands and sea-level rise (SLR) and accompanying high-water perturbations are predicted to escalate with climate change. To understand how SLR may impact protected islands and insular biodiversity, we model...

Various gene signatures of chemosensitivity in breast cancer have been discovered. One previous study employed t-test to find a signature of 31 probe sets (27 genes) from a group of patients who received weekly preoperative chemotherapy. Based on this signature, a 30-probe set diagonal linear discriminant analysis (DLDA-30) classifier of pathologic complete response (pCR) was constructed. In th...

In rodents, soluble leptin receptor (SLR) may be generated by alternative splicing of ObR mRNA and/or as a cleavage product of ObR membrane-anchored receptors. In this study, we investigated the contribution of both processes on the generation of SLR in 3-, 8-, and 24-month-old Wistar rats fed ad libitum (AL) or under food restriction (FR). To this end, we determined serum SLR levels and analyz...

There have been various navigation and tracking systems being developed with the help of technologies like GPS, GSM, Bluetooth, IR, Wi-Fi and Radar. Outdoor positioning systems have been deployed quite successfully using GPS but positioning systems for indoor environments still do not have widespread deployment due to various reasons. Most of these use only a single technology for positioning b...

A core assumption underlying mental chronometry is that more complex tasks increase cortical processing, prolonging reaction times. In this study we show that increases in task complexity alter the magnitude, rather than the latency, of the output for a circuit that rapidly transforms visual information into motor actions. We quantified visual stimulus-locked responses (SLRs), which are changes...

BACKGROUND Normal displacement of the conus medullaris with unilateral and bilateral SLR has been quantified and the "principle of linear dependence" has been described. PURPOSE Explore whether previously recorded movements of conus medullaris with SLRs are i) primarily due to transmission of tensile forces transmitted through the neural tissues during SLR or ii) the result of reciprocal move...

PURPOSE To evaluate a low-rank decomposition method to reconstruct down-sampled k-space data for the purpose of tumor tracking. METHODS AND MATERIALS Seven retrospective lung cancer patients were included in the simulation study. The fully-sampled k-space data were first generated from existing 2-dimensional dynamic MR images and then down-sampled by 5 × -20 × before reconstruction using a Ca...