286 research outputs found
Entrance to the Physical Education Building at the University of Southern California, [s.d.]
No full textPhotograph of the entrance to the Physical Education Building at the University of Southern California, [s.d.]. The entrance is at center at the base of a large archway. Three sets of doors can be seen, separated by cylindrical columns. At the peak of the arch, a stone statue depicting the head of a Trojan sticks out from the building. The seal of the University appears directly over the statue. The walls of the building are made of large, light-colored bricks at center and more conventional bricks on the outside. Engraved on the side of the building at right are the words "In Concordiam Mentis Et Corporis".; "A Trojan warrior keeps silent vigil above the entrance to the physical education building at the University of Southern California. One of the more recent additions to the university, latest equipment of every kind is at the disposal of S.C. students for the development of sound bodies. Large gymnasiums, two swimming pools, handball courts, spacious locker rooms, and other conveniences are features of the building, which also contains a group of lecture rooms and faculty offices."-- unknown author. Photoprint reads: "News Bureau, F.B. Skeele, University of Southern California, University Park, Los Angeles, California"
Review of the book by F.B. Batyrgarey “Registers of birth of muslims in the city of Tver”
No full textThe article is a review of the new book by researcher F.B. Butyrgarey Registers of Birth of Muslims in the City of Tver. The book devoted to the publication of Muslim metric books of Tver is of importance and much-in-demand. These documents are published for the first time. The research includes all Muslim parish registers of the city of Tver, which were kept in the State Archive of the Tver Region. The author provided their transcription and on the basis of the given documents, he presented an interesting material about the state and development of the Tatar society of the Russian city of Tver in 1905–1918
Data-Driven Approach for Systemic Risk: A Macroprudential Perspective
No full textThis paper proposes a sovereign CDS analysis for systemic risk, assuming a macroprudential perspective and building on the modelling framework proposed by Baglioni and Cherubini (J. Econ. Dynam. Control 37:1581–1597, 2013). A data-driven approach applied to CDS quotes is considered to estimate a reduced form model for the marginal intensity of defaults at country level and investigate the presence of common factors. Results show a systematic effect on default intensities, rank correlation and common factors for countries in the sample with specific geographic differences. This is an important empirical evidence to further investigate how to model, measure and assess the drivers explaining heterogeneity in impacts across countries and build early warning indicators to support strategic decision making.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Applied Probabilit
Depolarization and decreased surface expression of K+ channels contribute to NSAID-inhibition of intestinal restitution
No full textNon-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) contribute to gastrointestinal ulcer formation by inhibiting epithelial cell migration and mucosal restitution; however, the drug-affected signaling pathways are poorly defined. We investigated whether NSAID inhibition of intestinal epithelial migration is associated with depletion of intracellular polyamines, depolarization of membrane potential (Em) and altered surface expression of K+ channels. Epithelial cell migration in response to the wounding of confluent IEC-6 and IEC-Cdx2 monolayers was reduced by indomethacin (100μM), phenylbutazone (100μM) and NS-398 (100μM) but not by SC-560 (1μM). NSAID-inhibition of intestinal cell migration was not associated with depletion of intracellular polyamines. Treatment of IEC-6 and IEC-Cdx2 cells with indomethacin, phenylbutazone and NS-398 induced significant depolarization of Em, whereas treatment with SC-560 had no effect on Em. The Em of IEC-Cdx2 cells was: −38.5±1.8mV under control conditions; −35.9±1.6mV after treatment with SC-560; −18.8±1.2mV after treatment with indomethacin; and −23.7±1.4mV after treatment with NS-398. Whereas SC-560 had no significant effects on the total cellular expression of Kv1.4 channel protein, indomethacin and NS-398 decreased not only the total cellular expression of Kv1.4, but also the cell surface expression of both Kv1.4 and Kv1.6 channel subunits in IEC-Cdx2. Both Kv1.4 and Kv1.6 channel proteins were immunoprecipitated by Kv1.4 antibody from IEC-Cdx2 lysates, indicating that these subunits co-assemble to form heteromeric Kv channels. These results suggest that NSAID inhibition of epithelial cell migration is independent of polyamine-depletion, and is associated with depolarization of Em and decreased surface expression of heteromeric Kv1 channels.ID: S0006295207001931; M3: Article; Accession Number: S0006295207001931; Author: L.C. Freeman (b); Author: D.F. Narvaez (a); Author: A. McCoy (a); Author: F.B. von Stein (c); Author: S. Young (b); Author: K. Silver (a); Author: S. Ganta (b); Author: D. Koch (b); Author: R. Hunter (b); Author: R.F. Gilmour (c); Author: J.D. Lillich (a, ⁎); Affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, United States; Affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, United States; Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States; Keyword: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Keyword: Intestinal epithelial cells; Keyword: Membrane potential; Keyword: Potassium channels; Number of Pages: 12; Language: English;Source type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edselp&AN=S0006295207001931&site=eds-live&scope=sit
Book Review: Lecture notes on Pharmacodynamics
No full textBook Title: Lecture notes on PharmacodynamicsBook Author: Charles F.B. NhachiUniversity of Zimbabwe Publications, Harare, Zimbabwe (1999), 64pp. ISBN: 0-908307-75-6
Optical System Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms
No full textThe goal of this project is to investigate the performance of the Genetic Algorithms (GA) and the influence of their parameters on optical system optimization. We have developed our own code on optical system optimization using the MatLab GA module to accomplish this task. To evaluate the optical part of our code we checked the outcomes of each step with the commercial lens-design software-package Zemax. We tested different tuning parameters of the GA. We found that the mutation and the crossover parameters are the most critical parameters. Choosing inappropriate values of these parameters causes the optimization routine to never reach a good result, even by increasing the population size and the number of generations to high numbers. As an alternative to GA, we studied the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) method. This is one of the newest methods for global optimization which is claimed by some authors to perform better than GA. We combined an existing ABC code with our optical code. According to the results, for the optical system we consider, we found the GA to be superior over the ABC method.Applied PhysicsImaging Science & TechnologyApplied Science
EuroCity persons: A novel benchmark for person detection in traffic scenes
No full textBig data has had a great share in the success of deep learning in computer vision. Recent works suggest that there is significant further potential to increase object detection performance by utilizing even bigger datasets. In this paper, we introduce the EuroCity Persons dataset, which provides a large number of highly diverse, accurate and detailed annotations of pedestrians, cyclists and other riders in urban traffic scenes. The images for this dataset were collected on-board a moving vehicle in 31 cities of 12 European countries. With over 238,200 person instances manually labeled in over 47,300 images, EuroCity Persons is nearly one order of magnitude larger than datasets used previously for person detection in traffic scenes. The dataset furthermore contains a large number of person orientation annotations (over 211,200). We optimize four state-of-the-art deep learning approaches (Faster R-CNN, R-FCN, SSD and YOLOv3) to serve as baselines for the new object detection benchmark. In experiments with previous datasets we analyze the generalization capabilities of these detectors when trained with the new dataset. We furthermore study the effect of the training set size, the dataset diversity (day- versus night-time, geographical region), the dataset detail (i.e., availability of object orientation information) and the annotation quality on the detector performance. Finally, we analyze error sources and discuss the road ahead.Accepted Author ManuscriptIntelligent Vehicle
Ira P. Hager
No full textIra P. Hager,8x11.5cm A Logan lawyer. He was in Europe with a lady friend whom he met. Author of book Blue and Grey Battlefields Property of F.B. Lamberthttps://mds.marshall.edu/lambert_papers/2252/thumbnail.jp
Voorstudie G-opdracht 1988-I GOfiner - Esso Rotterdam
No full textDocument(en) uit de collectie Chemische Procestechnologie.DelftChemTechApplied Science
A discrete-time inverse scattering algorithm for plane wave incidence in a one-dimensional inhomogeneous acoustic medium
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