Search results for "Enhancement."

Efficient gene therapy based targeting system for the treatment of inoperable tumors

2012

Background A considerable percentage of tumors are not amenable to surgery. We have designed a simple and powerful targeting system that offers an alternative option for the multi-component pre-targeting strategies used clinically. This targeting system can be used for any type of solid tumors independent of the tumor type, thereby omitting the need to engineer unique antibodies for each specific application or tumour type. In the present study, we show the expression of a chimeric fusion protein, which contains the low-density lipoprotein receptor transmembrane domains and avidin, after local gene transfer and its ability to bind biotinylated compounds in vivo. Methods Semliki Forest virus…

Gene Therapy of Human Melanoma. Immunization of Patients with Autologous Tumor Cells Admixed with Allogeneic Melanoma Cells Secreting Interleukin 6 a…

1995

Restoration and enhancement of KOS City - Greece

2012

Abusiveness phenomenon is an essentially political, social and economi-cal fact in all territories that determines a disadvantage in the community and in its environment. Architectural is “the science of living” and it is called to answer on a problem which is progressively go destroying living places. Architectural must therefore answers to housing needs. Abusiveness is a housing emergency which oppresses towns and citiziens. Architectural does-n’t feel guilty because for too many years architects did something else, cor-rupted building did the rest.

Three-dimensional object detection under arbitrary lighting conditions

2006

A novel method of 3D object recognition independent of lighting conditions is presented. The recognition model is based on a vector space representation using an orthonormal basis generated by the Lambertian reflectance functions obtained with distant light sources. Changing the lighting conditions corresponds to multiplying the elementary images by a constant factor and because of that, all possible lighting views will be elements that belong to that vector space. The recognition method proposed is based on the calculation of the angle between the vector associated with a certain illuminated 3D object and that subspace. We define the angle in terms of linear correlations to get shift and i…

2020

Abstract. Despite the availability of both commercial and open-source software, an ideal tool for digital rock physics analysis for accurate automatic image analysis at ambient computational performance is difficult to pinpoint. More often, image segmentation is driven manually, where the performance remains limited to two phases. Discrepancies due to artefacts cause inaccuracies in image analysis. To overcome these problems, we have developed CobWeb 1.0, which is automated and explicitly tailored for accurate greyscale (multiphase) image segmentation using unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques. In this study, we demonstrate image segmentation using unsupervised machine le…

Risk Management Era in European Credit Institutions: Predictable Mutation in XXI Century

2014

Abstract In the market economy, globalization, liberalization and diversification of financial markets, fierce competition between the credit institutions and many of the products and services offered by them are the main factors that have exposed the banking sector to new risks, while leading to multiple challenges. For these reasons it is becoming increasingly important both permanent innovation and risk management techniques tools as well as banking performance. Only a pertinent analysis and a very good knowledge of the new tendencies in banking financial risk management can provide credit institutions in Romania efficient options on their use of management, while obtaining a higher prof…

Use of Caffeine for Cognitive Enhancement

2015

Abstract Pharmacological cognitive enhancement (CE) refers to the use of divergent psychoactive substances with the purpose of enhancing one's own cognition (e.g., increasing vigilance, concentration, memory). The group of substances for CE includes divergent over-the-counter drugs. Caffeine-containing products such as coffee, caffeinated drinks, and caffeine tablets are integral part of this group of substances. Furthermore, prescription drugs as well as illicit drugs belong to this group of CE substances (e.g., [psycho-]stimulants, modafinil). The use of caffeine in normal healthy subjects has very limited procognitive effects. However, there are few procognitive effects in healthy but sl…

Cross-modal interactions between taste and smell: Odour-induced saltiness enhancement depends on salt level

2011

International audience; In recent years, health concerns related to salt have led to extensive research on low-salt foods. One major remaining issue is to reduce sodium content while still providing the salty fix, to maintain food appreciation, acceptance and choice. Using well-selected odours has been proposed to compensate for sodium chloride reduction in food, due to the cross-modal interactions between odour and taste. However, interactions between taste and odour, with regards to saltiness, remain poorly investigated. Moreover, although a few studies have assessed the influences of odour and sweet supra-threshold intensity on cross-modal interactions, none focused directly on how they …

Heterogeneous salt distribution in hot snacks enhances saltiness without loss of acceptability

2013

clef UT: 000318667000026; International audience; Abstract Health issues have led worldwide organisations to encourage the food industry to reduce salt in processed foods. Therefore, different strategies for salt reduction have been investigated. Here, the effect of heterogeneous salt distribution on saltiness perception intensity was assessed to compensate for salt reduction in snack foods. Two models of hot-served baked foods were developed. One model is made of two layers that vary in composition (cream-based and cereal-based layers) and salt (NaCl) concentration; the other one is made of four cream-based layers that vary in salt concentrations. Consumer panels rated the saltiness intens…

Comunicare il restauro

2017

Le nuove, estese concezioni del patrimonio culturale collegate alle tecnologie della comunicazione, devono essere l'occasione per una cultura dell'integrazione che faccia lavorare insieme le due componenti, Heritage e Digital- in una visione consapevolmente interdisciplinare, forse anche transdisciplinare, che lavori alla ri-composizione dei saperi e a quella di essi con il contesto fisico-sociale. This paper puts forward a comparison between the traditional way of communicating cultural heritage and a new approach that not only involves the physical use of cultural assets, but also the understanding of their identity and history, through intangible technological systems of communication. T…