To investigate whether dynamic functional connectivity (DFC) metrics can better identify minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) patients from cirrhotic without any (noHE) and healthy controls (HCs). Resting-state MRI data were acquired 62 with cirrhosis (MHE, n?=?30; noHE, n?=?32) 41 HCs. We used the sliding time window approach analysis to extract time-varying properties of brain connectivity. T...

This paper explores the close relationship between feature-oriented and architectural styles of formal system description, and explains the formal methods needed to support descriptions in these styles. In the telecommunications domain, DFC is a successful example of a feature-oriented, architectural description technique. Although formal methods for DFC are in their infancy, there are already ...

Middlebox services that inspect packet payloads have become commonplace. Today, anyone can sign up for cloudbased Web application firewall with a single click. These services typically look for known patterns that might appear anywhere in the payload. The key challenge is that existing solutions for pattern matching have become a bottleneck because software packet processing technologies have a...

Building on crucial insights into the determining factors of the visual integrity of an image and the property of deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we have developed the Deep Feature Consistent Deep Image Transformation (DFC-DIT) framework which unifies challenging one-to-many mapping image processing problems such as image downscaling, decolorization (colour to grayscale conversion) and...

Nucleoli, the sites of rRNA synthesis, rRNA processing, and the assembly of ribosomes, are dynamic organelles that, in most cells, disperse and reform during mitosis. The mechanisms that regulate nucleolar formation are unknown as is the relationship between nucleolar morphology and the pathway of ribosome biogenesis. In this report we describe the in vitro formation of nucleolus-like particles...

There is a growing interest in developing novel brain stimulation methods to control disease-related aberrant neural activity and to address basic neuroscience questions. Conventional methods for manipulating brain activity rely on open-loop approaches that usually lead to excessive stimulation and, crucially, do not restore the original computations performed by the network. Thus, they are oft...

The delayed feedback control (DFC) is a control method for stabilizing unstable periodic orbits in nonlinear autonomous differential equations. We give an important relationship between the characteristic multipliers of the linear variational equation around an unstable periodic solution of the equation and those of its delayed feedback equation. The key of our proof is a result about the spect...

The subnucleolar structure that is involved in rDNA transcription has been controversial. A report by Koberna et al. (2002)(this issue, page 743) adds significant weight toward the idea that dense fibrillar components (DFCs)**Abbreviations used in this paper: DFC, dense fibrillar component; FC, fibrillar center; GC, granular component; Pol I, polymerase I. and fibrillar center (FC)/DFC borders ...

In this study, a new molecularly imprinted polymer with nanoporous material of zirconium metal-organic frameworks (Zr-MOF/MIP) for diclofenac (DFC) measurement is presented. The Zr-MOF/MIP was prepared by electropolymerization method, the Zr-MOFs were used to increase electrode surface and the DFC and para- aminobenzoic acid (pABA) were used as template and functional monomer, respectively. Zr-...