The purpose of this article is to introduce a new scheme for robust multivariate ranking by making use of a not so familiar notion called monotonicity. Under this scheme, as in the case of classical outward ranking, we get an increasing sequence of regions diverging away from a central region (may be a single point) as nucleus. The nuclear region may be deened as the median region.

The Kupffer's vesicle (KV) is the so-called left-right organizer in teleost fishes. KV is formed from dorsal forerunner cells (DFCs) and generates asymmetrical signals for breaking symmetry of embryos. It is unclear how DFCs or KV cells are prevented from intermingling with adjacent cells. In this study, we show that the Eph receptor gene ephb4b is highly expressed in DFCs whereas ephrin ligand...

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...