Iron limitation affects one-third of the cultivable land on Earth and represents a major concern for agriculture. It causes decline of many photosynthetic components, including the Fe-S protein ferredoxin (Fd), involved in essential oxidoreductive pathways of chloroplasts. In cyanobacteria and some algae, Fd down-regulation under Fe deficit is compensated by induction of an isofunctional electr...

Chloroplast ferredoxin (Fd) plays a pivotal role in plant cell metabolism by delivering reducing equivalents to various essential oxidoreductive pathways. Fd levels decrease under adverse environmental conditions in many microorganisms, including cyanobacteria, which share a common ancestor with chloroplasts. Conversely, stress situations induce the synthesis of flavodoxin (Fld), an electron ca...

Tuberculose péritonéale: aspect laparoscopique de pelvis gelé Peritoneal tuberculosis Mehdi Kehila, Mohamed Badis Chanoufi Service C de Gynécologie Obstétrique, Centre de Maternité et de Néonatologie de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunisie Corresponding author: Mehdi Kehila, Service C de Gynécologie Obstétrique, Centre de Maternité et de Néonatologie de Tunis, Université Tunis El Manar, Tu...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this survey was to confirm the prevalence and adverse profiles of fatty liver disease among different ethnic public servants in Urumqi of Xinjiang. METHODS The cross-sectional study were implemented among serving and retired public servants who participated in the annual physical check-up including abdominal ultrasonography from April 2012 to April 2013 at the health...

Large strains, anisotropy of mechanical properties of materials and Coulomb friction in contact regions are some properties in the analysis of deep drawing process. In this research, the effects of different parameters such as anisotropy coefficient, work hardening exponent and friction coefficient on deep drawing process of drawing quality steel are studied. For this purpose, the finite elemen...

Flavodoxins, which exist widely in microorganisms, have been found in various pathways with multiple physiological functions. The flavodoxin (Fld) containing the cofactor flavin mononucleotide (FMN) from sulfur-reducing bacteria Desulfovibrio gigas (D. gigas) is a short-chain enzyme that comprises 146 residues with a molecular mass of 15 kDa and plays important roles in the electron-transfer c...

Flavodoxin (Fld) has been demonstrated to bind to ferredoxin- NADP(+) reductase A (FprA) in Pseudomonas putida. Two residues (Phe(256), Lys(259)) of FprA are likely to be important for interacting with Fld based on homology modeling. Sitedirected mutagenesis and pH-dependent enzyme kinetics were performed to further examine the role of these residues. The catalytic efficiencies of FprA-Ala(259)...

A class of image-matrix-based feature extraction algorithms has been discussed earlier. The correspondence argues that 2-D principal component analysis and Fisher linear discriminant (FLD) are equivalent to block-based PCA and FLD. In this correspondence, we point out that this statement is not rigorous.

This paper presents a new algorithm for feature generation, which is approximately derived based on geometrical interpretation of the Fisher linear discriminant analysis. In a field of pattern recognition or signal processing, the principal component analysis (PCA) is often used for data compression and feature extraction. Furthermore, iterative learning algorithms for obtaining eigenvectors ha...

BACKGROUND Several studies have evaluated accuracy of intraoral scanners (IOS), but data is lacking regarding variations between IOS systems in the depiction of the critical finish line and the finish line accuracy. The aim of this study was to analyze the level of finish line distinctness (FLD), and finish line accuracy (FLA), in 7 intraoral scanners (IOS) and one conventional impression (IMPR...