Hyperbilirubinemia is a pathological condition, very often indicative of underlying liver condition that is characterized by excessive accumulation of conjugated or unconjugated bilirubin in sinusoidal blood. In literature there are several indications associating the inhibition of the basolateral hepatic transporters Organic anion transporting polypeptide 1B1 and 1B3 (OATP1B1 and 1B3) with hyp...

Linear, Discrete, and Quadratic Constraints in Single-Image 3D Reconstruction Ady Ecker Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 2010 In this thesis, we investigate the formulation, optimization and ambiguities in single-image 3D surface reconstruction from geometric and photometric constraints. We examine linear, discrete and quadratic constraints for ...

The decay KL → π0e+e− is being searched for as a signal of direct ∆S = 1 CP violation. We provide a thorough updating of the analysis of the three components of the decay: 1) Direct CP violation, 2) CP violation through the mass matrix and 3) CPconserving (two-photon) contributions. First the chiral calculation of the KS → π0e+e− rate, due to Ecker, Pich and de Rafael (EPR), is updated to inclu...

This investigation is based on measurements of 60 macerated adult European skulls from the Alexander-Ecker Collection at the Anatomy Department of the University of Freiburg. Computer tomographical (CT) and anatomical measurements were compared to assess the accuracy of the CT representation of osseous structures. Nine structures were examined: the optic canal; the superior orbital fissure; the...

The mean curvature flow is the gradient flow of volume functionals on the space of submanifolds. We prove a fundamental regularity result of mean curvature flow in this paper: a Lipschitz submanifold with small local Lipschitz norm becomes smooth instantly along the mean curvature flow. This generalizes the regularity theorem of Ecker and Huisken for Lipschitz hypersurfaces. In particular, any ...

Editorial Board Rakesh Anand ICI Pharmaceuticals Johannes Bos University of Utrecht David Botstein Stanford University School of Medicine Jeff Chamberlain University of Michigan Medical School Nicholas Dracopoli Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joe Ecker University of Pennsylvania Henry Erlich Roche Molecular Systems Kenshi Hayashi National Cancer Research Institute, Tokyo Bernhard Horsthe...

Editorial Board Rakesh Anand Zeneca Pharmaceuticals Johannes Bos University of Utrecht Anne Bowcock University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Jeff Chamberlain University of Michigan Medical School Nicholas Dracopoli National Center for Human Genome Research Joe Ecker University of Pennsylvania Ray Fenwick Dianon Systems, Inc. Kenshi Hayashi National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo...

The possibility of suppressing self-excited vibrations of mechanical systems using parametric excitation is discussed. We consider a two-mass system of which the main mass is excited by a ow-induced, self excited force. A single mass which acts as a dynamic absorber is attached to the main mass and, by varying the stiiness between the main mass and the absorber mass, represents a parametric exc...