PURPOSE Curve and surface thinning are widely-used skeletonization techniques for modeling objects in three dimensions. In the case of trabecular bone analysis, however, neither curve nor surface thinning is really efficient since the internal geometry of the object is usually composed of both rod and plate shapes. The purpose of this paper is to propose an original method called hybrid skeleto...

Quasiclassical trajectory studies have been performed for the reaction between an H ~or D! atom incident from the gas phase and a H ~or D! atom adsorbed onto a Cu~111! surface. Results from a density functional calculation of the interaction between H and a Cu~111! surface are used to construct a detailed potential energy surface which contains all six nuclear degrees of freedom. Impacts of the...

Background. The double haul is a unique feature of single-handed fly casting and is used in both fly fishing and fly casting competition. The movement behaviour during the double haul has not been investigated in previous research. Objectives. Describe the coordination of the rod and line hauling movements during distance fly casting. Methods. Elite fly casters performed distance castin...

Regulation of rod gene expression has emerged as a potential therapeutic strategy to treat retinal degenerative diseases like retinitis pigmentosa (RP). We previously reported on a small molecule modulator of the rod transcription factor Nr2e3, Photoregulin1 (PR1), that regulates the expression of photoreceptor-specific genes. Although PR1 slows the progression of retinal degeneration in models...

We investigated the presence and related signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) of rod-shaped bacteria on a produce surface using elastic scattering. The theoretical noise was defined as a scattering signal from a rough produce surface while the signal was defined as a scattering signal from the increasing numbers of rod-shaped bacteria on the produce surface. In this research, we measured the surface topo...

Owing to the two-dimensional periodicity of a superstructure on the crystal surface, the intensity in reciprocal space is continuously distributed along rods normal to the sample surface. The analysis of rod scans in surface X-ray diffraction provides information about the structure parameters normal to the sample surface. For high resolution to be achieved, the measurements must extend to mome...

We present ‘BYTe’, a comprehensive ‘hot’ line list for the ro-vibrational transitions of ammonia, NH3, in its ground electronic state. This line list has been computed variationally using the program suite TROVE, a new spectroscopically determined potential energy surface and an ab initio dipole moment surface. BYTe, is designed to be used at all temperatures up to 1500 K. It comprises 1138 323...