This paper presents a survey of past transformation functions for image registration and introduces a new transformation function for registration of images containing rigid as well as nonrigid regions. Included in the survey are similarity transformation, linear transformation, and nonlinear transformation. Nonlinear transformation itself includes thin-plate splines, radial basis functions, ap...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the major etiological agent of blood-borne non-A non-B hepatitis and a leading cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma worldwide. HCV core protein is a multifunctional protein with regulatory functions in cellular transcription and virus-induced transformation and pathogenesis. Here we report on the identification of a bZIP nuclear transcription protein ...

Huang presented a trade-off problem, taking both product quality and process adjustment cost into account, to determine the optimum parameters (i.e., the process mean and process variance) of the input characteristic in the transformation model. In Huang’s transformation model, the input characteristic, x, is assumed to be normally distributed and the output characteristic, y, is nominal-the-be...

the pseudo-elastic behavior of shape memory alloy (sma) truss and cantilever beam are investigated. brinson’s one-dimensional material model, which uses the twinned and detwinned martensite fractions separately as internal variables, is applied in the algorithm to establish the sma stress-strain characteristics. this material model also incorporates different young’s modulus for austenitic and ...

Transformants have been isolated after infection of rat embryo cells at 33 C with either wild-type simian virus 40 or with the temperature-sensitive gene A mutants, tsA7 and tsA28. Examination of properties usually associated with transformation such as growth in 1% serum, growth rate, saturation density, and morphology show that these properties are temperature dependent in the tsA transforman...

In this paper, we propose structure transformation rules for statistical machine translation which are lexicalized by only function words. Although such rules can be extracted from an aligned parallel corpus simply as original phrase pairs, their structure is hierarchical and thus can be used in a hierarchical translation system. In addition, structure transformation rules can take into account...

In this paper, we discuss what appears to be one critical variable in successful organizational transformation: the ego development stage of the CEO and his or her senior advisers. In ten longitudinal organizational development efforts, the five CEOs measuring at the late Strategist/Leader stage of development supported 15 progressive organizational transformations. By contrast, the five CEOs m...

KAZUHIRO HIKAMI A. We give a transformation formula for the " 2nd order " mock theta function D 5 (q) = ∞ n=0 (−q) n (q; q 2) n+1 q n which was recently proposed in connection with the quantum invariant for the Seifert manifold.

In 1989 the IT function of the exploration and production division of British Petroleum Company set out to transform itself in response to a severe economic environment and poor internal perceptions of IT performance. This case study traces and analyzes the changes made over six years. The authors derive a model of the transformed IT organization comprising seven components which they suggest c...