533 research outputs found
Development of detection device for dugong calls
December 15-17, 2007, Royal Phuket City Hotel, Phuket, ThailandAn acoustical approach for research on marine mammals has been a very active research method in recent years. Dugong (Dugong dugon) is one of the highly endangered species, which are strictly-marine herbivorous and mainly inhabit coastal areas. In order to detect dugong calls from recorded data, several algorithms have been adapted by researchers in the analyzing process. However, the number of misses in the detection is still non-zero. The sound of snapping shrimp recorded in a wide range (2-300 kHz) is one of the main background noises that makes the detection of dugong calls difficult in warm shallow waters. Impulse elimination was employed in the system to get rid of the snapping shrimp noise. In order to improve the performance of the detection system by increasing the detection rate and decreasing the number of misses, two new algorithms were tested in the experiment. The experimental results for the new algorithms including impulse elimination and the cepstrum method are presented in this paper
Reconstruction of GABAergic Transmission and Behavior by Striatal Cell Grafts in Rats with Ischemic Infarcts in the Middle Cerebral Artery
Fetal striatal cell suspensions were grafted
stereotaxically into the infarcted striatum of
rats, and reconstruction of striatopallidal GABA
transmission and behavior were investigated.
Occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCA)
for one hour induced ischemic infarcts mainly in
the lateral striatum, as detected by magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) and histology.
Ischemic rats had deficits in the performance of
a passive avoidance task, both acquisition and
retention, but no changes in general circadian
actograms. In these animals pallidal GABA,
detected by microdialysis, decreased to about
half of control levels. There were suggestions of
an improvement in passive avoidance
performance in the grafted animals. Pallidal
GABA concentrations recovered almost to
control levels, and were increased by infusions
of the GABA uptake blocker nipecotic acid.
These data indicate that neural transplantation
is a promising approach to improve the deficits
in chemical transmission and behavior following
ischemic infarcts in rat striatum
Purification, crystallization and preliminary crystallographic characterization of the α2,6-sialyltransferase from Photobacterium sp. JT-ISH-224
Crystallization of the α2,6-sialyltransferase from Photobacterium
Ring-size-selective construction of fluorine-containing carbocycles via intramolecular iodoarylation of 1,1-difluoro-1-alkenes
1,1-Difluoro-1-alkenes bearing a biaryl-2-yl group effectively underwent site-selective intramolecular iodoarylation by the appropriate cationic iodine species. Iodoarylation of 2-(2-aryl-3,3-difluoroallyl)biaryls proceeded via regioselective carbon–carbon bond formation at the carbon atoms in β-position to the fluorine substituents, thereby constructing dibenzo-fused six-membered carbocycles bearing a difluoroiodomethyl group. In contrast, 2-(3,3-difluoroallyl)biaryls underwent a similar cyclization at the α-carbon atoms to afford ring-difluorinated seven-membered carbocycles
Scan-Less, Kilo-Pixel, Line-Field Confocal Phase Imaging with Spectrally Encoded Dual-Comb Microscopy
Confocal laser microscopy (CLM) is a powerful tool in life science research and industrial inspection, and its image acquisition rate is boosted by scan-less imaging techniques. However, the optical-intensity-based image contrast in CLM makes it difficult to visualize transparent non-fluorescent objects or reflective objects with nanometer unevenness. In this paper, we introduce an optical frequency comb (OFC) to scan-less CLM to give the optical-phase-based image contrast. One-dimensional (1D) image pixels of a sample are separately encoded onto OFC modes via 1D spectral encoding by using OFC as an optical carrier of amplitude and phase with a vast number of discrete frequency channels. Then, line-field confocal information of amplitude and phase are decoded from a mode-resolved OFC amplitude and phase spectra obtained by dual-comb spectroscopy. The proposed confocal phase imaging will further expand the application fields of CLM
Scan-Less, Kilo-Pixel, Line-Field Confocal Phase Imaging with Spectrally Encoded Dual-Comb Microscopy
Confocal laser microscopy (CLM) is a powerful tool in life science research and industrial inspection, and its image acquisition rate is boosted by scan-less imaging techniques. However, the optical-intensity-based image contrast in CLM makes it difficult to visualize transparent non-fluorescent objects or reflective objects with nanometer unevenness. In this paper, we introduce an optical frequency comb (OFC) to scan-less CLM to give the optical-phase-based image contrast. One-dimensional (1D) image pixels of a sample are separately encoded onto OFC modes via 1D spectral encoding by using OFC as an optical carrier of amplitude and phase with a vast number of discrete frequency channels. Then, line-field confocal information of amplitude and phase are decoded from a mode-resolved OFC amplitude and phase spectra obtained by dual-comb spectroscopy. The proposed confocal phase imaging will further expand the application fields of CLM
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