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Application of MALDI-TOF-MS and nested SAPD-PCR for discrimination ofOenococcus oeniisolates at the strain level
2015
Oenococcus oeni is the most important lactic acid bacterium during vinification and is frequently used as a commercial starter culture for malolactic fermentation. Since different strains exhibit a high heterogeneity concerning wine-related physiological characteristics, reliable methods for their differentiation at the strain level are needed, especially for the development of starter cultures. Microbial identification by using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) has increased over the last few years. In the present study, we used MALDI-TOF-MS for the differentiation of 11 O. oeni isolates originating from 5 different wine-growing reg…
Paratransgenic manipulation of tsetsemiR275alters the physiological homeostasis of the fly’s midgut environment
2021
AbstractTsetse flies are vectors of parasitic African trypanosomes (Trypanosomaspp.). Current disease control methods include fly-repelling pesticides, trapping flies, and chemotherapeutic treatment of infected people. Inhibiting tsetse’s ability to transmit trypanosomes by strengthening the fly’s natural barriers can serve as an alternative approach to reduce disease. The peritrophic matrix (PM) is a chitinous and proteinaceous barrier that lines tsetse’s midgut. It protects the epithelial cells from the gut lumen content such as food and invading trypanosomes, which have to overcome this physical barrier to establish an infection. Bloodstream form trypanosomes shed variant surface glycopr…
Targeting the Sortase A Transpeptidase to Tackle Gram-positive Pathogens
2013
The virulence factors include the cell-wall associated proteins called MSCRAMMs (microbial surface components recognizing adhesive matrix molecules) that can promote the adhesion to host proteins, for example, the fibronectin that is very common in host tissues. The cellwall associated proteins are necessary for host colonization, invasion, immune evasion and biofilm formation [4]. The biofilms, multistratified bacterial communities that grow on a biological or artificial surface, are responsible for chronic infectious diseases and for device or biomaterial associated infections, and are more resistant to host immune defence system and to conventional antibiotics [5].
Synthetic/ECM-inspired hybrid platform for hollow microcarriers with ROS-triggered nanoporation hallmarks
2017
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key pathological signals expressed in inflammatory diseases such as cancer, ischemic conditions and atherosclerosis. An ideal drug delivery system should not only be responsive to these signals but also should not elicit an unfavourable host response. This study presents an innovative platform for drug delivery where a natural/synthetic composite system composed of collagen type I and a synthesized polythioether, ensures a dual stimuli-responsive behaviour. Collagen type I is an extracellular matrix constituent protein, responsive to matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) cleavage per se. Polythioethers are stable synthetic polymers characterized by the presence o…
Detecting motion independent of the camera movement through a log-polar differential approach
1997
This paper is concerned with a differential motion detection technique in log-polar coordinates which allows object motion tracking independently of the camera ego-motion when camera focus is along the movement direction. The method does not use any explicit estimation of the motion field, which can be calculated afterwards at the moving points. The method, previously formulated in Cartesian coordinates, uses the log-polar coordinates, which allows the isolation of the object movement from the image displacement due to certain camera motions. Experimental results on a sequence of real images are included, in which a moving object is detected and optical flow is calculated in log-polar coord…
Endodontic management of single rooted immature mandibular second molar with single canal using MTA and platelet-rich fibrin membrane barrier: A case…
2011
An immature tooth with pulpal necrosis and periapical pathology imposes a great difficulty to the endodontists. Endodontic treatment options for such teeth consist of conventional apexification procedure with and without apical barriers. Various materials have been tried as apical matrix in the past. This article demonstrates the newer concept of using platelet rich fibrin membrane as an apical matrix barrier for stabilization of MTA in root end apexification procedure. Platelet Rich Fibrin is an autologous fibrin matrix containing a large quantity of platelet and leukocyte cytokines, which enhance healing by release of growth factors. This case report represents successful management of a …
A real-time auto calibration technique for stereo camera
2020
Calibration of the internal and external parameters of a stereo vision camera is a well-known research problem in the computer vision. Usually, to get accurate 3D results the camera should be manua...
Robust auto calibration technique for stereo camera
2017
Calibration of the internal and external parameters of a stereo vision camera is a well-known research problem in the computer vision. Usually, to get accurate 3D results the camera should be manually calibrate accurately as well. This paper proposes a robust approach to Auto Calibration stereo camera Without intervention of the user. There are several methods and techniques of calibration that have been proven, in this work we exploiting the geometric constraint, namely, the epipolar geometry. We specifically focuses to use 7 techniques for Features Extraction (SURF, BRISK, FAST, FREAK, MinEigen, MSERF, SIFT), however tries to establish the correspondences between points extracted in stere…
Further Results on Modeling, Analysis, and Control Synthesis for Offshore Wind Turbine Systems
2014
Renewable energy is a hot topic all over the world. Nowadays, there are several sustainable renewable power solutions out there; hydro, wind, solar, wave, and biomass to name a few. Most countries have a tendency to want to become greener. In the past, all new wind parks were installed onshore. During the last decade, more and more wind parks were installed offshore, in shallow water. This chapter investigates a comparative study on the modeling, analysis, and control synthesis for the offshore wind turbine systems. More specifically, an \( {\mathcal{H}}_{\infty } \) static output-feedback control design with constrained information is designed. Constrained information indicates that a rema…
Robustness of texture parameters for color texture analysis
2006
This article proposes to deal with noisy and variable size color textures. It also proposes to deal with quantization methods and to see how such methods change final results. The method we use to analyze the robustness of the textures consists of an auto-classification of modified textures. Texture parameters are computed for a set of original texture samples and stored into a database. Such a database is created for each quantization method. Textures from the set of original samples are then modified, eventually quantized and classified according to classes determined from a precomputed database. A classification is considered incorrect if the original texture is not retrieved. This metho…