Cellulose thin films were chemically modified by in situ sulfation to produce surfaces with anticoagulant characteristics. Two celluloses differing in their degree of polymerization (DP): CEL I (DP 215–240) and CEL II (DP 1300–1400) were tethered to maleic anhydride copolymer (MA) layers and subsequently exposed to SO3·NMe3 solutions at elevated temperature. The impact of the resulting sulfatio...

David Hodgson and John Kuruvilla are co-senior investigators Introduction: The optimal salvage chemotherapy (SC) regimen for relapsed or refractory (R/R) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) prior to autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) remains unclear. Head-to-head comparison of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) therapies second line use in primary DLBCL is lacking. Given these limitation...

The objective of Cartoon Style Rendering is to produce a cartoon looking rendering out of a 3D scene. Instead of rendering photorealistic images the focus lies on artistic and stylistic characteristics. In this paper we give an overview of the common methods to generate cartoon looking scenes. We describe the basic techniques for the silhouette edge detection and the shading of the interior. Th...

AIM To compare the use of commercial monoclonal antibody test systems--the Giardia CEL IF test and the Crypto CEL IF test--for the detection of Giardia lamblia and Cryptosporidium parvum antigens in faeces with conventional techniques. METHODS Sensitivity and specificity were evaluated using preparations of cysts of G lamblia and purified oocysts of C parvum. Evaluation of 59 random faecal sa...

Out-of-memory problem was frequently encountered when processing thousands of CEL files using Bioconductor. We propose a divide-and-conquer strategy combined with randomised resampling to solve this problem. The CAMDA 2007 META-analysis data set which contains 5896 CEL files was used to test the approach on a typical commodity computer cluster by running established pre-processing algorithms fo...

Motion blur is a well-established technique which prevents strobing by making fast moving objects appear blurred. In cel animation however, different methods are used and this paper presents a new technique to emphasise the motion of cartoon objects through the application of geometry. We term the involved non-photorealistic motion blur as ‘cartoon blur’. In order to express cartoon blur, we ha...

Two experiments evaluated the effects on animal performance of traditional wet distillers grains (T-WDG) compared to cellulosic wet distillers grains (C-WDG) from a new process converting corn kernel fiber into cellulosic ethanol. The resulting coproduct has greater CP and decreased starch and ether extract (EE) concentrations (34.0% CP, 1.6% starch, 7.3% EE) compared to T-WDG (32.5% CP, 5.1% s...

This document provides examples on the usage of the oligo package. The datasets used here can be downloaded by the user, who is expected to have the CEL and XYS files in the following directory structure: Directory Name Object Name Description expressionData affyExpressionFS Latin Square Affymetrix U95A exonData affyExonFS Exon Sample Dataset Human snpData affySnpFS HapMap samples on XBA Array ...

We discuss the co-evolutionary learning method, applied to human learning, as a means toward a mediated, competitively motivated, educational environment on the Internet. This method was developed in our work with machine learners, where we have been examining environmental characteristics that enable successful and effective learning through “self-play” in games. Critical features include the ...