3D object retrieval has received much research attention during the last years. To automatically determine the similarity between 3D objects, the global descriptor approach is very popular, and many competing methods for extracting global descriptors have been proposed to date. However, no single descriptor has yet shown to outperform all other descriptors on all retrieval benchmarks or benchma...

The present investigation was undertaken to establish anatomical norms on gross anatomical study of skull of adult Pygmy hog. In the present investigation, three adult Pygmyhog were utilized. The skull was macerated and processed. The skull of Pygmy hog has frontal, lateral, nuchal and basal surfaces. The frontal surface of the skull was formed by the parietal, frontal, nasal, parts of the maxi...

When confronted with a marked increase in external osmolarity, budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) cells utilize a conserved mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade (the high-osmolarity glycerol or HOG pathway) to elicit cellular responses necessary to permit continued growth. One input that stimulates the HOG pathway requires the integral membrane protein and putative os...

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North Carolina's swine industry is among the largest in the nation, second only to that of Iowa. By far, most of the hogs produced in North Carolina are raised in large industrial facilities with thousands of animals each. These operations have prompted concerns about noxious odors and potentially hazardous air emissions. Steve Wing, an associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Publi...

Swine confinement buildings typically store manure in deep pits or use flush systems that generate liquid manure. This liquid is of great concern to hog producers because of its’ potential environmental impacts, odors and effects on human and animal health. An alternative system, the High-Rise Hog Building (HRHB) attempts to address these issues by drying and partially composting hog manure in ...

A potent renin inhibitor, U-71038 (Boc-Pro-Phe-N-MeHis-Leu psi[CHOHCH2]Val-Ile-Amp), was tested for oral effectiveness. Enzyme kinetic studies indicated that U-71038 was a competitive inhibitor of hog renin with an inhibitor constant (Ki) value of 12 nM. Intravenous as well as oral administration of U-71038 to anesthetized, ganglion-blocked rats infused with hog renin elicited dose-related hypo...

Image analysis is a key area in the computer vision domain that has many applications. Genetic Programming (GP) has been successfully applied to this area extensively, with promising results. Highlevel features extracted from methods such as Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) and Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HoG) are commonly used for object detection with machine learning techniques. Howeve...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae adapts to osmotic stress through the activation of a conserved high-osmolarity growth (HOG) mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathway. Transmission through the HOG pathway is very well understood, yet other aspects of the cellular response to osmotic stress remain poorly understood, most notably regulation of actin organization. The actin cytoskeleton rapidly disas...

The HOG (High Osmolarity Glycerol response) pathway plays a central role in controlling stress response, ergosterol biosynthesis, virulence factor production, and differentiation of Cryptococcus neoformans, which causes fatal fungal meningoencephalitis. Recent transcriptome analysis of the HOG pathway discovered a Hog1-regulated gene (CNAG_00130.2), encoding a putative protein kinase orthologou...