The problem of determining the location and orientation of straight lines in images is of great
importance in the fields of computer vision and image processing. Traditionally the Hough …

Wilson's disease (WD) is an inherited disorder of copper metabolism. Despite being
treatable, patients with WD suffer severe disabilities due to delay in initiation and difficulty in …

Endophytes are beneficial microbes that reside intercellularly inside the plants. Interaction of
endophytes with the host plants and their function within their host are important to address …

There are three typical problems encountered in pipe flows, which are: unknown friction factor,
unknown flow rate, and unknown diameter problems. A major problem in determining the …

Heat exchangers are used in industrial processes to recover heat between two process fluids.
Although the necessary equations for heat transfer and the pressure drop in a double pipe …

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been associated with various human diseases, and
considerable attention has been paid to investigate their physiological effects. Various ROS …

Firms often collaborate with other firms to set information technology standards in order to
decrease each firm's individual risk. But does this work? We propose that, in a capital market …

Background: Doctoring is a 2-year preclinical course designed to teach medical students
fundamental clinical skills. Purpose: We designed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative …

Location based services are proving to be the next driving factors for growth in smartphones.
While GPS solves the problem of accurate localization in outdoor environments, indoor …

Rationale: Cardioprotective pathways may involve a mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium
(mitoK ATP ) channel but its composition is not fully understood. Objective: We hypothesized …