The amphibian Xenopus tropicalis, whose genome has been recently sequenced, has become an important model organism for vertebrate developmental genetics. The development of cytogenetic tools in this new model organism should contribute to an understanding of the organization of the amphibian genome and the mapping of a variety of loci of interest. In this respect, oocyte lampbrush chromosomes a...

OBJECTIVE The less invasive surgical stabilisation (LISS) plate fixation method is an orthopaedic procedure for the fixation of distal femoral fractures. Early physiotherapy treatments of motion and mobilisation have been advocated following this procedure. This article critically appraises the evidence base assessing the early rehabilitation of patients following LISS fixation for distal femor...

In the context of coded transmission over intersymbol interference channels we investigate a bidirectional list-sequential equalizer (BI-LISS) suitable for turbo schemes. Especially for channels with an unmanageable high number of states for a trellis based APP equalization this sequential algorithm shows almost optimal performance with much smaller complexity. Generally, the list-sequential (L...

Edges characterize boundaries and are therefore a problem of fundamental importance in image processing and particularly in automatic feature extraction. In this paper a comparative study of various edge detection techniques and band wise analysis of these algorithms in the context of object extraction with regard to remote sensing satellite images from the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS)...

The present study addresses the potential of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for land cover classification in parts of Dandeli forested regions, Karnataka, India. a FCC has been generated from coherence and backscattering co-efficient images of ENVISATASAR data (HH polarizations) of 25 Sep 2006 and 30 Oct 2006. Similarly, ENVISAT-ASAR data (HH polarization) of 25 Sep 2006 along with IRS –P6...

Ecotones are zones of gradual changes from an ecological system to another.Ecotones monitoring could be important to find out the reason for changes and limits. Inthis research satellite data were used to analyze the ecotone boundary in Fars steppicrangelands using IRS LISS III and Pan data of year 2006. The real vegetation map andecotones prepared through Geo-eye images from Google earth softw...

We introduce the notion of Linear Integer Secret-Sharing (LISS) schemes, and show constructions of such schemes for any access structure. We show that any LISS scheme can be used to build a secure distributed protocol for exponentiation in any group. This implies, for instance, distributed RSA protocols for arbitrary access structures and with arbitrary public exponents.