Rationale: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established treatment for patients with chronic heart failure. However, CRT-associated structural and functional remodeling at cellular and subcellular levels is only partly understood. Objective: To investigate the effects of CRT on subcellular structures and protein distributions associated with excitation-contraction coupling of ventri...

We use the term structural restoration for those interventions that are carried out on monuments in order to restore the bearing capacity of the whole or of parts that have structural problems. Most of the structural problems of the Acropolis monuments are due to the cracking and splintering of the marble caused by the rusting of the extensive iron reinforced elements that had been inserted dur...

Restoration projects can have varying goals, depending on the specific focus, rationale, and aims for restoration. When restoration projects use project-specific goals to define activities and gauge success without considering broader ecological context, determination of project implications and success can be confounding. We used case studies from the Middle Rio Grande (MRG), southwest USA, to...

This paper presents a non-local kernel regression (NL-KR) method for image and video restoration tasks, which exploits both the non-local self-similarity and local structural regularity in natural images. The non-local self-similarity is based on the observation that image patches tend to repeat themselves in natural images and videos; and the local structural regularity reveals that image patc...

Image in painting is a method to reinstate a damaged portion of image. This technique has found extensive use in application such as restoration, object removal, scratch removal, error recovery, multimedia editing, and video privacy protection. This restoration can be made by using two approaches, image in painting and texture synthesis. Most usual techniques are computationally exhaustive and ...

Coastal and inland waters are continuing to decline in many parts of the world despite major efforts made to restore them. This is due in part to the inadequate role that ecological science has played in shaping restoration efforts. A significant amount of fundamental ecological knowledge dealing with issues such as system dynamics, state changes, context-dependency of ecological response, and ...