Malignant brain edema (MBE) due to hemispheric infarction can result in brain herniation, poor outcomes, and death; outcome may be improved if certain interventions, such as decompressive craniectomy, are performed early. We sought to generate a prediction score to easily identify those patients at high risk for MBE. 121 patients with large hemispheric infarction (LHI) (2011 to 2014) were inclu...

Using contextual information for scene labeling has gained substantial attention in the fields of image processing and computer vision. In this paper, a fusion model using flexible segmentation graph (FSG) is presented to explore multi-scale context for scene labeling problem. Given a family of segmentations, the representation of FSG is established based on the spatial relationship of these se...

In the facultative photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus, the transcription of genes encoding pigment binding proteins is tightly regulated in response to the oxygen partial pressure by the RegB/ RegA two component system. After a shift from high to low oxygen tension, the response regulator RegA enhances transcription of the puf and puc operon coding for the reaction center, light-ha...

The representation and recognition of complex semantic events (e.g. illegal parking, stealing objects) is a challenging task for high-level understanding of video sequence. To solve this problem, an attribute graph grammar for events modeling is studied in this paper. This grammar models the variability of semantic events by a set of meaningful ‘‘event components” with the spatio-temporal const...

Abstract: This paper presents a wavelet based image coding method achieving high levels of compression. Our Eigen designed Quadrature Mirror Filters are implemented in a multiresolution subband decomposition system [1][2]. Symmetrical extension and windowing of the multi-scaled subbands are incorporated to minimize the boundary effects. Next, the Embedded Zerotree Wavelet [3] coding algorithm i...

Carotenoids are essential to protection against photooxidative damage in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organisms. In a previous study, we reported the disruption of crtD and crtC carotenoid genes in the purple bacterium Rubrivivax gelatinosus, resulting in mutants that synthesized carotenoid intermediates. Here, carotenoid-less mutants have been constructed by disruption of the crtB gen...

This study was to isolate lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from different dairy and non-dairy sources and to evaluate the probiotic potential of the isolated microorganism(s). Sixteen Lactobacillus isolates viz. seven human (LHI), six dairy (LMI) and three from kimchi (LKI) were subjected to screening for probiotic attributes: simulated stomach deudenum passage, bile salt hydrolase; cell surface hydr...

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In the facultative photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus, the transcription of genes encoding pigment binding proteins is tightly regulated in response to the oxygen partial pressure by the RegB/ RegA two component system. After a shift from high to low oxygen tension, the response regulator RegA enhances transcription of the puf and puc operon coding for the reaction center, light-ha...

We have used three-color flow cytometry to investigate the pattern of expression of the CDI 1 lCD18, CD44. and leukocyte adhesion molecule 1 (LAM-1) adhesion molecules during myeloid and erythroid differentiation in humans. The earliest myeloid cells, identified as CD33'"CD15-, were exclusively CD44hi but contained both leukocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1 hi) and LFA-1'" cells, as we...