Cys proteinases play important roles in plant cell development and senescence. A cDNA, AsNODf32, obtained by differential screening of a nodule cDNA library of the leguminous plant Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus), represents a nodule-specific Cys proteinase similar to that reported for the actinorhizal Alnus glutinosa-Flankia symbiosis. A characteristic feature of this proteinase is the...

Vocal tremor is encountered in different neurological diseases and could be used for their characterisation. In this paper, vocal tremor features have been extracted for speakers with Parkinson’s disease and control speakers. It is shown that Parkinson’s disease has significant effects on vocal tremor features. For speakers with Parkinson’s disease, the average vocal frequency is higher and the...

Résumé Les lésions hépatiques nodulaires sont majoritairement tumorales. Le nodule nécrotique solitire du foie est rare. Le diagnostic preopératoire est difficile. Il s'agit d'une femme âgée de 43 ans qui était opérée d'un adénocarcinome du rectum métastatique au foie opéré.Le scanner abdominal de surveillance a révélé un nodule hépatique d'allure métastatique. Le second cas est celui d'un homm...

Melphalan (L-phenylalanine mustard), a cytostatic drug used in treatment of human breast cancer, was injected into mice bearing preneoplastic hyperplastic alveolar nodule mammary outgrowth line D2. Melphalan, doses of either 2.5 or 5.0 mg/kg, markedly enhanced tumor formation in its mammary nodule outgrowth line. Samples of nodule outgrowths in untreated mice produced 13% tumors by 9 months aft...

This paper describes an interactive gestural microphone for vocal performance named Voicon. Voicon is a non-invasive and gesture-sensitive microphone which allows vocal performers to use natural gestures to create vocal augmentations and modifications by using embedded sensors in a microphone. Through vocal augmentation and modulation, the performers can easily generate desired amount of the vi...

in clinical management of singers it’s important to identify risk components of vocal fatigue and glottic damage, predicting and assessing the vocal cost of the various vocal performances to avoid any risk. despite many difficulties, we made dosimetries on singers (9 opera and 9 musical) during live theatre performances. our aim was to evaluate phonatory behaviours before, during and after perf...

In this paper, a complete system for automatic lung nodule detection from Chest CT data is proposed. The proposed system includes the methods of lung segmentation and nodule detection from CT data. The algorithm for lung segmentation consists of surrounding air voxel removal, body fat/tissue identification, trachea detection, and pulmonary vessels segmentation. The nodule detection algorithm co...

BACKGROUND Perioperative examination ofthe vocal folds with flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy is not always feasible. Prior studies suggest vocal fold ultrasound may provide a useful screening tool, however, correlation to laryngoscopic findings is necessary. The purpose of the case series was to validate vocal fold ultrasound in the adult population and to correlate the ultrasound findings to t...

We compared nodule initiation in lateral roots of Pisum sativum (L.) cv Sparkle and in a low-nodulating mutant E2 (sym 5). In Sparkle, about 25% of the infections terminated in the epidermis, a similar number stopped in the cortex, and 50% resulted in the formation of a nodule meristem or an emerged nodule. The mutant E2 (sym 5) was infected as often as was the parent, and it formed a normal in...