Cardiac hypertrophy is an adaptive response to physiological and pathological overload. In response to the overload, individual cardiac myocytes become mechanically stretched and activate intracellular hypertrophic signaling pathways to re-use embryonic transcription factors and to increase the synthesis of various proteins, such as structural and contractile proteins. These hypertrophic respon...

The objective of video segmentation is to segment a video sequence into parts called shots corresponding to a continuous set of frames taken from one camera. Transitions between shots can be abrupt (cuts) or gradual. Abrupt transition can be easily detected while detection of gradual transition, such as dissolve, in still an unsolved problem. In this paper we present a novel approach for a reli...

White dwarf stars composed of carbon, oxygen or heavier elements are expected to crystallize as they cool down below certain temperatures. Yet, simple arguments suggest that the helium white dwarf cores may not solidify, mostly because of zero-point oscillations of the helium ions that would dissolve the crystalline structure. We argue that the interior of the helium dwarfs may instead form a m...

This study experimentally examined the performance consistency of sediment microbial fuel cells (SMFCs) with the same geometry and the same startup protocol. The cells revealed very different characteristics after startup. Doubling the anodic surface area did not enhance the cell performance. Stirring the sediment and aerating the upper water increased voltage output, and the chemical environme...

Metal films are known to dissolve crystalline semiconductors at temperatures well below the eutectic temperature. Dissolution and transport of common semiconductors in contact with Au films have been demonstrated at room temperature. 1 The solid AI metallization used in electronic devices is known to dissolve troublesome quantities of crystalline Si after heat treatment at 400oC.2 Metal films a...

The study aimed to determine the efficiency of a wastewater treatment plant and quality effluent discharged by into receiving water body (Okochiri River) in Eleme, Rivers State. lasted for four months. Wastewater samples were collected at various stages unit tested major parameter such as Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), oil/grease, phenol, Dissolved (DO), Total Suspended Solids (TSS), sulphide....

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There are a number of shots in a video, each of which has boundary types, such as cut, fade, dissolve and wipe. Many previous approaches can find the cut boundary without difficulty. Ho wever, most of them often produce false alarms for the videos with large motions of camera and objects. We propose a shot boundary detection method combining Bayesian and structural information. In the Bayesian ...