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The GRB-Supernova Connection
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to be produced by the core
collapse of massive stars and hence to be connected with supernovae (SNe).
Indeed, for four pairs of GRBs and SNe, spectroscopically confirmed connection
has been firmly established. For more than a dozen of GRBs the SN signature
(the `red bump') has been detected in the afterglow lightcurves. Based on the
four pairs of GRBs and SNe with spectroscopically confirmed connection a tight
correlation was found between the peak spectral energy of GRBs and the peak
bolometric luminosity of the underlying SNe. The recent discovery of X-ray
flash 080109 associated with a normal core-collapse SN 2008D confirmed this
relation and extended the GRB-SN connection. Progress on the GRB-SN connection
is briefly reviewed.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the proceedings of "2008 Nanjing GRB
conference", Nanjing, 23-27 June 200
Elevated MTSS1 Expression Associated with Metastasis and Poor Prognosis of Residual Hepatitis B-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Background: Hepatectomy generally offers the best chance of long-term survival for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Many studies have shown that hepatectomy accelerates tumor metastasis, but the mechanism remains unclear.
Methods: An orthotopic nude mice model with palliative HCC hepatectomy was performed in this study. Metastasis-related genes in tumor following resection were screened; HCC invasion, metastasis, and some molecular alterations were examined in vivo and in vitro. Clinical significance of key gene mRNA expression was also analyzed
A PatchMatch-based Dense-field Algorithm for Video Copy-Move Detection and Localization
We propose a new algorithm for the reliable detection and localization of
video copy-move forgeries. Discovering well crafted video copy-moves may be
very difficult, especially when some uniform background is copied to occlude
foreground objects. To reliably detect both additive and occlusive copy-moves
we use a dense-field approach, with invariant features that guarantee
robustness to several post-processing operations. To limit complexity, a
suitable video-oriented version of PatchMatch is used, with a multiresolution
search strategy, and a focus on volumes of interest. Performance assessment
relies on a new dataset, designed ad hoc, with realistic copy-moves and a wide
variety of challenging situations. Experimental results show the proposed
method to detect and localize video copy-moves with good accuracy even in
adverse conditions
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