ALIS (Advanced Landmine Imaging System), which is a novel landmine detection sensor system combined with a metal detector and GPR, was developed. This is a hand-held equipment, which has a sensor position tracking system, and can visualize the sensor output in real time on a head-mounted PC display. In order to achieve the sensor tracking system, ALIS needs only one CCD camera attached on the s...

Copyright © 2006 Heldref Publications Abstract: This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects ...

Despite the current growth of graphic novel popularity with teens and the increasing representation of the LGBTQ community in those graphic novels, there has been little work done to evaluate these works in terms of how the LGBTQ characters are presented. Using Jenkins’s adaptations of Lerner’s, Bishop’s, and Chauncey’s frameworks—as well as Jenkins’s own framework that combined these three for...

Cancer stem cells have tumor-initiation and tumor-maintenance capabilities. Stem-like cells are present in colorectal adenomas, but their relationship to adenoma pathology and patient characteristics, including metachronous development of an additional adenoma ("recurrence"), has not been studied extensively. We evaluated the expression of aldehyde dehydrogenase isoform 1A1 (ALDH1A1), a putativ...

A large number of novels are being uploaded as online novels. The present paper proposes a ranking algorithm based on the users’ favorite lists (bookmarks). Empirical evaluation has been conducted with respect to each genre of novels. In several genres, it is confirmed that the top ranked novels in July are predicted from the bookmarks of May.

Abstract Anti-libidinal interventions (ALIs) are used in several jurisdictions to reduce male sex offenders’ libido. One common objection these holds that when offenders either required undergo them or offered as an alternative continued incarceration, ALIs violate recipients’ human rights. In this article, I examine objection, which call the rights ALIs, relation European Convention on Human R...

An active leakage-injection scheme (ALIS) for lowvoltage (LV) high-density (HD) SRAMs is presented. By means of a feedback loop comprising a servo-amplifier and a commondrain MOSFET, a current matching the respective bit-line leakage is injected onto the line during precharge and sensing, preventing the respective capacitances from erroneous discharges. The technique is able to handle leakages ...

Members of the P(4) subfamily of P-type ATPases are believed to catalyze flipping of phospholipids across cellular membranes, in this way contributing to vesicle biogenesis in the secretory and endocytic pathways. P(4)-ATPases form heteromeric complexes with Cdc50-like proteins, and it has been suggested that these act as beta-subunits in the P(4)-ATPase transport machinery. In this work, we in...

This paper analyzed three middle grade novels and a short story from two cultures using the journey motif as the vehicle for the analysis. The three novels are Bud Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham both by Paul Curtis   and Journey to Jo’burg by Naidoo (1986). The short story is My Two Dads by M. Lee.  The three novels and a short story were chosen because these no...

Le programme d'analyse~ dont nous allons d~finir ici une partie, fait partie d'un programme de traduction automatique de l'allemand en d'autres langues choisies ~ volont~. Nous prendrons pour base une forme du programme id~alis~e, qui sans consideration de la capacit~'limit~e de l'ordinateur explique toutes les differences des constructions allemandes entre elles. De cette mani~re on dolt regar...