CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 35-year-old woman presented to the dermatological clinic of Shahid-Faghihi Hospital with asymptomatic, bilateral and symmetrical erythematous patches on her lower extremities. On clinical examination, there were erythematous patches on the lateral and medial malleolar surfaces and superior to the medial malleolus, with no other complaints regarding pain or itching (Figur...

Acetylcholinesterase staining on successive frontal or sagittal sections was used to determine the three-dimensional organization of the striosomal and matrix compartments in the adult cat caudate nucleus. Reconstruction drawings of the acetylcholinesterase-poor zones (striosomes) indicated that the striosomal compartment is a labyrinthine network organized in the rostrocaudal and mediolateral ...

This paper presents algorithms for efficiently computing the covariance matrix for features that form sub-windows in a large multidimensional image. For example, several image processing applications, e.g. texture analysis/synthesis, image retrieval, and compression, operate upon patches within an image. These patches are usually projected onto a low-dimensional feature space using dimensionali...

The rat granular retrosplenial cortex (GRS) is a simplified cortex, with distinct stratification and, in the uppermost layers, distinct modularity. Thalamic and cortical inputs are segregated by layers and in layer 1 colocalize, respectively, with apical dendritic bundles originating from neurons in layers 2 or 5. To further investigate this organization, we turned to reelin-deficient reeler mo...

Interrupting the processes which control ecosystem resources has dramatic impacts on the rangeland conditions. To protect ecosystems and landscape, it needs to understand the ecosystem processes which regulate the ecosystem resources. As main components of ecosystems, patches and inter-patches play important roles in energy and materials cascade. Ecologically, functional parameters such as stab...

This paper presents a supervised learning algorithm for image deblurring. The task is addressed into the conceptual framework of matrix regression and gradient evolution. Specifically, given pairs of blurred image patches and their corresponding clear ones, an optimization framework of matrix regression is proposed to learn a matrix mapping. For an image to be deblurred, the learned matrix mapp...

Determining the permeability of different types of landscape matrices to animal movement is essential for conserving populations in fragmented landscapes. We evaluated the effects of habitat patch size and matrix type on diversity, isolation, and dispersal of ithomiine butterflies in forest fragments surrounded by coffee agroecosystems in the Colombian Andes. Because ithomiines prefer a shaded ...

As the human population expands, landscapes worldwide are becoming fragmented into remnant patches of original habitat, surrounded by agriculture and other human land uses. With diminishing opportunities to preserve large tracts of pristine habitat, the future of biodiversity conservation lies increasingly in these fragmented areas. Therefore, understanding the processes at work in fragmented l...

in this article, the linear array (with 20 elements in the horizontal orientation) of microstrip antenna is examined with horizontal polarization. the set includes three microstrip substrates. there is a power network in two lower substrates and microstrip patches in the upper substrate. excitation of patches has been done as coupled through the power network in two lower substrates. using the ...