Thellungiella halophila (T. halophila) (salt cress) is a close relative of Arabidopsis and a model plant for salt tolerance research. However, the nature of its later flowering causes some difficulties in genetic analysis. The FRIGIDA (FRI) gene plays a key role in the Arabidopsis vernalization flowering pathway, whose homolog in T. halophila may also be a key factor in controlling flowering ti...

OBJECTIVES Amoxicillin use has been reported to be associated with developmental defects on enamel surfaces. This analysis assessed the association between amoxicillin use and fluorosis on late-erupting permanent teeth. METHODS As part of the Iowa Fluoride Study, subjects were followed from birth to 32 months with questionnaires every 3-4 months to gather information on fluoride intake and am...

Mobile health is gradually taking more importance in our society and the need of new power efficient devices acquiring biosignals for long periods of time is becoming substantial. In this thesis, we study the power reduction we could achieve on ECG sensing devices. Emphasis is made on reducing the number of samples both during the sensing phase and the compression phase. To that end, a new sche...

Fuzzy Relational Inference (FRI) systems form an important part of approximate reasoning schemes using fuzzy sets. Especially, the compositional rule of inference (CRI) introduced by Zadeh has attracted the most attention so far. In this work we show that the FRI scheme based on the BandlerKohout subproduct along with a suitable realisation of the fuzzy rules, does possess all the important pro...

BACKGROUND Quantification of renal fluid conservation is possible by urine analysis, and the results can indicate dehydration. The present report sought to determine whether this fluid retention correlates with fluid requirements during major abdominal surgeries that have estimated operating times ≥ 2 h. METHODS Urine colour, specific weight, osmolality and creatinine concentration were used ...

Current means of measuring disease in preclinical models of atherosclerosis include ex vivo assessment of disease tissues post-mortem and non-invasive imaging primarily of structural and anatomic features of lesions, in vivo. A non-invasive, quantitative means of imaging known biologic profiles associated with atherosclerotic disease, in vivo, would enable a robust additional understanding and ...

We address a problem of sampling and reconstructing periodic piecewise polynomials based on the theory for signals with a finite rate of innovation (FRI signals) from samples acquired by a sinc kernel. This problem was discussed in a previous paper. There was, however, an error in a condition about the sinc kernel. Further, even though the signal is represented by parameters, these explicit val...