With the rapid advances in tumor genetics, an increasing number of amplifications have been identified in various human neoplasms (4). Examples of oncogenes amplified in tumors include N-myc and HER-2/neu, which have been proposed as prognostic markers in neuroblastoma and breast cancer, respectively (5,7). To date, most of the information on the amplification of genes has been gathered from co...

This paper proposes a technique that can be used in a conferencing system to handle participants registration and key distribution in a decentralized and distributed way. The technique is named DiRK, an acronym derived from Distributed Registration and Key distribution. The basic idea of DiRK is to distinguish between active and passive participants in a particular conference session, and to ha...

Entropy based phase shift migration with de-noising algorithm for radar body area focusing imaging Hui Zhang, Yun Lu and Dirk Plettemeier Off-body Channel Measurements at 2.4 GHz and 868 MHz in an Indoor Environment Evangelos Mellios, Angelos Goulianos, Sema Dumanli, Geoffrey Hilton, Robert Piechocki and Ian Craddock Radar vertebral column imaging by inhomogeneous medium radar focusing algorith...

Fisheries catches from Pacific Island coral reefs are rarely recorded in official statistics. Reconstruction of catch estimates with limited hard data requires interpolation and assumptions, justifiable only by the unsatisfactory alternative of continued substitution of zero catches, a common policy interpretation for ‘no data’. Uncertainties associated with reconstructions are high, requiring ...

The components and functions of the insulin receptor kinase signaling pathway have been conserved in a broad range of Metazoa ranging from mammals to insects and nematodes. There is a high degree of sequence homology and functional similarity between the human insulin receptor kinase (IRK) and the drosophila (Drosophila melanogaster) form (DIRK) of this enzyme. Similarly, a high degree of homol...