Poxviruses such as Vaccinia virus (VACV) undertake a complex cytoplasmic replication cycle which involves morphogenesis through four distinct virion forms, and includes a crucial "wrapping" step whereby intracellular mature virions (IMVs) are wrapped in two additional membranes to form intracellular enveloped virions (IEVs). To determine if cellular retrograde transport pathways were required f...

This paper presents a proposed technique for texture recognition which depends on the combination of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) with Fast Discrete Curvelet Transform (FDCvT) via Wrapping.The proposed technique includes two stages, the first stage is implemented by taking individual natural textures (wood, stone and grass) with several positions and calculation of the features vector (Mean ...

BACKGROUND The aortic Dacron wrapping technique is a surgical technique used under certain circumstances in cases of ascending aorta dilatation. Herein, we are presenting our experience on the method performed on multimorbid patients who denied major aortic surgery. METHODS We included in our series 7 patients (5 male-2 female) with mild to moderate ascending aortic dilatation, who were opera...

The wrapping effect is one of the main reasons that the application of interval arithmetic to the enclosure of dynamical systems is difficult. In this paper the source of wrapping is analyzed algebraically and geometrically. A new method for reducing the wrapping effect is proposed, based on an interval ellipsoid arithmetic. Applications are given to the verification of stability regions for no...

This paper presents experimental research on structural behaviour of normal and recycled aggregate concrete filled steel tube (RACFT) columns externally strengthened with carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets and subjected to axial loading. A total of 22 specimens were tested to investigate the influence of the following variables: (1) tube configurations, circular or square, solid or h...

Although rapid progress has been made in understanding the interaction of nanoparticles (NPs) with lipid membrane, little is known about the interaction between neighboring NPs on the membrane. With the aid of computer simulation techniques, in this work we systematically investigate the membrane mediated interaction between anisotropic NPs with at least one dimension with the size of several n...

BACKGROUND External wrapping is a surgical technique performed in patients with a dilated ascending aorta. The aim of this study is to present the mid-term results of wrapping of the dilated ascending aorta. METHODS 34 patients (mean age: 64.4 ± 10.8 years, 21 males) with a dilated ascending aorta were operated on at a single cardiac surgery center using a wrapping technique. The aortas were ...

The vast majority of information that is available online, and coming online in this near future is only available in HTML. In order to use this information for more than human browsing, it must be converted into a machine-readable format. Wrappers have been the key tool to make the conversion from HTML into semantically meaningful and well-structured XML data. However, developing wrappers is s...

The actin-filled stereocilia of cochlear hair cells deflect in response to sound by pivoting around rootlets at their insertion points at the sensory cell surface. Kitajiri et al. (2010) now show that the actin-binding protein TRIOBP tightly bundles the actin filaments into rootlets, endowing these stereocilia "pivots" with unique elasticity and robustness.