Mouth structure segmentation using K-Means and Gaussian mixtures . 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Lip segmentation based on pixel color classi cation Pixel-based segmentation encompasses pixel classi cation using region color distribution mod-els. Commonly, those models are linear and non-linear approximations of the region separation boundaries, reducing...

General description of the epidemic model of the natural course of infection

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Characteristics of the bacterial shedding C. burnetii infection in ruminants often becomes chronic, with persistent bacterium shedding: cows can shed C. burnetii for several months [59] and goats at successive parturitions [23]. This...

Autosomal barring in chicken is strongly associated with segregation at the MC1R locus (Paper I). 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Study Summaries This thesis is comprised of four papers in which both genomic and molecular biology approaches were used to identify novel genes involved in pigmentation and plumage variation in birds and describe...

Recapturing clones to estimate the sexuality and population size of pathogens 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » MATERIALS AND METHODS Selection of isolates. A set of 409 isolates was selected to represent 11 geographical regions on six continents (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America) from a collection...

Impact of Child Subsidies on Child Health, Well-being and Investment in Child Human Capital: Evidence from Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey 2011- 2017 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Placebo DiD regression To test whether the estimates obtained in Section 5 are not a ected by pre-reform changes uncontrolled for in out models, we preform DiD placebo estimation. These models include as...

Epidemiology, ecology, and clinical presentation of VHFs

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Epidemiology, ecology, and clinical presentation of VHFs EVD is a severe illness associated with hemorrhage and high fatality rates, and is thought to be of zoonotic origin. EVD is caused by 5 species...

IMPACT OF SLOWLY BIODEGRADABLE ORGANIC CARBON ON THE COMPETITION BETWEEN ANAMMOX BACTERIA AND DENITRIFIERS AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES.

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) Anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria (AnAOB) are known to oxidize ammonium to nitrogen gas with nitrite as electron acceptor under anoxic conditions, forming nitrate in the process (Figure 1.5, pathway...

Effect of dairy matrices on the survival of Streptococcus thermophilus, Brevibacterium aurantiacum and Hafnia alvei during in vitro and in vivo digestion.

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Milk proteins as source of bioactive peptides Despite there are numerous sources like soy, and meat, milk and dairy products are the best precursors of bioactive peptides (Korhonen 2009). The functionality of these...

Revisiting the nite-size scaling above the upper critical dimension

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Scaling at continuous phase transitions Here we focus on ferromagnetic systems which manifest second-order or continuous phase transitions. The archetypal model for the study of such critical phenomena is the Ising model. Such...

Wide implications of VEGF, from physiological circumstances to pathological conditions

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » VEGF family members, receptors and mode of action There are five VEGF variants including VEGF-A, VEGF-B, VEGF-C, VEGF-D, placental growth factor; all described in mammals, as well as VEGF-E (found in Parapoxviridae), VEGF-F...