Neoplasia, ageing, and genetic instability due to defective caretaker genes * Sir, In all human populations, cancer prevalence and ge-nomic instability increase as a function of age, suggesting that loss of genetic homeostasis contributes to car-cinogenesis. Loss of genetic homeostasis is reflected by the accumulation of chromosome damage and DNA alterations which result from age-dependent decr...

This paper describes the ongoing project called Virtual Time Machine. The VTM project aims to realize to experience future and past events by long-term storage of information as well as prediction of future events by simulations using the storage of information.

In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture, MFRNet, for post-processing (PP) and in-loop filtering (ILF) in the context of video compression. This consists four Multi-level Feature review Residual dense Blocks (MFRBs), which are connected using cascading structure. Each MFRB extracts features from multiple layers connections multi-level residual learning o...

Effective vessel traffic management is critical to the safety of maritime ports and waterways. The United States and other maritime nations have had difficulty in establishing justifiable criteria for selecting ports requiring vessel traffic systems and for determining the level of sophistication of the vessel traffic management system required. Congress directed the USCG to reexamine the Vesse...

An indirect immunofluorescent antibody procedure (IFA) for the detection and typing of herpes simplex virus (HSV) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure were compared with conventional viral culture. Specimens for culture and ELISA were inoculated into serum free viral transport medium (VTM) and, for IFA, onto slides provided in the kit. Tissue cultures (MRC-5 and primary ra...

We present a new video compression framework (ViSTRA2) which exploits adaptation of spatial resolution and effective bit depth, down-sampling these parameters at the encoder based on perceptual criteria, up-sampling decoder using deep convolution neural network. ViSTRA2 has been integrated with reference software both HEVC (HM 16.20) VVC (VTM 4.01), evaluated under Joint Video Exploration Team ...

Flame-retardant polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) membranes with high transparency and flexibility were prepared by mixing an aqueous solution of a phosphorus-containing acrylic acid (AOPA) with PVA. The reaction between AOPA and PVA, the transparency, the crystallinity and the flexibility of the membrane were investigated with Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR), UV-vis light transmittance, X...

The recycling of mineral tailings is an important research topic. In this work, composite material was prepared using vanadium titanomagnetite (VTM) tailings, kaolin and sodium silicate, used as a photocatalyst for photocatalytic degradation organic dyes. results showed that the has good performance on rhodamine B in solution within few minutes. synthesized materials were characterized by XRF, ...