Classification of polarimetric SAR images has become a very important topic after the availability of Polarimetric SAR images through different sensors like SIR-C, ALOS-PALSAR etc. In this paper we studied effect of different decomposition techniques on the classification accuracy for polarimetric SAR data. We applied different target decomposition techniques (both coherent and incoherent) on A...

Fibrinogen (FBG) assembles into matrix fibrils of fibroblasts, lung and mammary epithelial cells, but not endothelial cells. Furthermore, cryptic beta15-21 residues are exposed in FBG fibrils with no evidence of thrombin or plasmin proteolysis. Herein, the effects of FBG on migration and proliferation of wounded dermal fibroblasts were investigated. FBG preassembled into matrix prior to scrape-...

Bacteroides fragilis is a bacterium that resides in the normal human gastro-intestinal tract; however, it is also the most commonly isolated Gram-negative obligate anaerobe from human clinical infections, such as intra-abdominal abscesses, and the most common cause of anaerobic bacteraemia. Abscess formation is important in bacterial containment, limiting dissemination of infection and bacterae...

Here we analyzed the gene expression profile of cells that stably express the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) 3a protein to determine its effects on host functions. A lung epithelial cell-line, A549, was chosen for this study because the lung is the primary organ infected by SARS-CoV and fatalities resulted mainly from pulmonary complications. Our results showed that th...

An abnormal fibrinogen was identified in a man with suspicious prolonged prothrombin time and a mild bleeding tendency. Coagulation studies showed marked prolonged thrombin and reptilase clotting times and a discrepancy between functional fibrinogen test and fibrinogen antigen. The rate of fibrinopeptide B release by thrombin was slightly delayed while the release of fibrinopeptide A was only h...

Cohn called a ring $R$ is reversible if whenever $ab = 0,$ then $ba = 0$ for $a,bin R.$ The reversible property is an important role in noncommutative ring theory‎. ‎Recently‎, ‎Abdul-Jabbar et al‎. ‎studied the reversible ring property on nilpotent elements‎, ‎introducing‎ the concept of commutativity of nilpotent elements at zero (simply‎, ‎a CNZ ring)‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we extend the CNZ pr...

The potential cross-link acceptor sites of fibrin were specifically labeled with the fluorescent, substitute cross-link donor monodansyl cadaverine (MDC). Several fluorescent alpha-chain peptides generated from enzymatic and cyanogen bromide (CNBr) cleavage of the labeled fibrin were identified by sodium dodecyl sulfate disc gel electrophoresis; they were isolated and then characterized by amin...