Clean localization super-resolution microscopy for 3D biological imaging

We propose clean localization microscopy (a variant of fPALM) using a molecule filtering technique. Localization imaging involves acquiring a large number of images containing single molecule signatures followed by one-to-one mapping to render a super-resolution image. In principle, this process can be repeated for other z-planes to construct a 3D image. But, single molecules observed from off-focal planes result in false representation of their presence in the focal plane, resulting in incorrect quantification and analysis. We overcome this with a single molecule filtering technique that imposes constraints on the diffraction limited spot size of single molecules in the image plane. Calibration with sub-diffraction size beads puts a natural cutoff on the actual diffraction-limited size of single molecules in the focal plane. This helps in distinguishing beads present in the focal plane from those in the off-focal planes thereby providing an estimate of the single molecules in the focal plane. We study the distribution of actin (labeled with a photoactivatable CAGE 552 dye) in NIH 3T3 mouse fibroblast cells. (C) 2016 Author(s).

A mode-shape classification technique for robust speech rate estimation and syllable nuclei detection

Acoustic feature based speech (syllable) rate estimation and syllable nuclei detection are important problems in automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer assisted language learning (CALL) and fluency analysis. A typical solution for both the problems consists of two stages. The first stage involves computing a short-time feature contour such that most of the peaks of the contour correspond to the syllabic nuclei. In the second stage, the peaks corresponding to the syllable nuclei are detected. In this work, instead of the peak detection, we perform a mode-shape classification, which is formulated as a supervised binary classification problem - mode-shapes representing the syllabic nuclei as one class and remaining as the other. We use the temporal correlation and selected sub-band correlation (TCSSBC) feature contour and the mode-shapes in the TCSSBC feature contour are converted into a set of feature vectors using an interpolation technique. A support vector machine classifier is used for the classification. Experiments are performed separately using Switchboard, TIMIT and CTIMIT corpora in a five-fold cross validation setup. The average correlation coefficients for the syllable rate estimation turn out to be 0.6761, 0.6928 and 0.3604 for three corpora respectively, which outperform those obtained by the best of the existing peak detection techniques. Similarly, the average F-scores (syllable level) for the syllable nuclei detection are 0.8917, 0.8200 and 0.7637 for three corpora respectively. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

A Research on New Method of Transportation Technics for Heavy Oil and Practice in Oil Field

介绍一种可应用于高粘度稠油管输的新工艺。即用自行研制的蒸汽引射器采用无界引射方式,将蒸汽直接注入到输油管道中,利用蒸汽释放的热量提高稠油温度降低粘度,从而达到降低稠油输送压降的目的,它比间接加热输送工艺所用的蒸汽量或耗煤量大大减少。方法在辽河油田输油管线上进行了工业现场试验,取得了很好的效果。

Nano-Tribological Study on a Super-Hydrophobic Film Formed on Rough Aluminum

A novel super-hydrophobic stearic acid (STA) film with a water contact angle of 166° was prepared by chemical adsorption on aluminum wafer coated with polyethyleneimine (PEI) film. The micro-tribological behavior of the super-hydrophobic STA monolayer was compared with that of the polished and PEI-coated Al surfaces. The effect of relative humidity on the adhesion and friction was investigated as well. It was found that the STA monolayer showed decreased friction, while the adhesive force was greatly decreased by increasing the surface roughness of the Al wafer to reduce the contact area between the atomic force microscope (AFM) tip and the sample surface to be tested. Thus the friction and adhesion of the Al wafer was effectively decreased by generating the STA monolayer, which indicated that it could be feasible and rational to prepare a surface with good adhesion resistance and lubricity by properly controlling the surface morphology and the chemical composition. Both the adhesion and friction decreased as the relative humidity was lowered from 65% to 10%, though the decrease extent became insignificant for the STA monolayer.

Analysis of super compact finite difference method and application to simulation of vortex-shock interaction

Turbulence and aeroacoustic noise high-order accurate schemes are required, and preferred, for solving complex flow fields with multi-scale structures. In this paper a super compact finite difference method (SCFDM) is presented, the accuracy is analysed and the method is compared with a sixth-order traditional and compact finite difference approximation. The comparison shows that the sixth-order accurate super compact method has higher resolving efficiency. The sixth-order super compact method, with a three-stage Runge-Kutta method for approximation of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, is used to solve the complex flow structures induced by vortex-shock interactions. The basic nature of the near-field sound generated by interaction is studied.

Respuesta al tratamiento super ovulatorio, con Folltropin-V (analogo sintetico de la hormona foliculoestimulante-FSH), en hembras bovinas donantes, de las razas Pardo Suizo y Reyna, en fincas de la Universidad Nacional Agraria, Managua

El presente trabajo investigativo fue realizado en las fincas Las Mercedes y Santa Rosa, ambas propiedad de la Universidad Nacional Agraria, ubicadas en el departamento de Managua-Nicaragua. El objetivo de la presente investigación fué conocer si hay influencia del factor raza en la respuesta súper ovulatoria una vez aplicado el tratamiento hormonal súper ovulatorio FOLLTROPIN-V (análogo sintético de la hormona foliculoestimulante-FSH) en hembras bovinas donantes de las razas Pardo Suizo y Reyna. El tamaño requerido de la muestra fue de 10 hembras donantes para cada raza en estudio; las cuales fueron previamente seleccionadas según la calidad genética de cada hembra, la edad comprendida entre 3-5 años y los resultados del examen clínico y ginecológico que se les realizó para saber si cumplían con los requisitos ó parámetros de salud estimados para esta técnica de mejoramiento productivo. Los datos se obtuvieron mediante el conteo de cuerpos lúteos y folículos a través de palpación rectal de los ovarios; el mismo día en que se realizó la recolecta de los embriones; los cuales fueron llevados al laboratorio para ser clasificados según su estado de desarrollo y calidad, posteriormente fueron transferidos ó congelados. Los resultados obtenidos a ravés del análisis de la respuesta superovulatoria, indican que no existe una diferencia significativa del factor raza, sin embargo se observó que la raza Reyna se comportó mejor que la raza Pardo Su izo al dar mayor cantidad de cuerpos lúteos (R: 14.75 - PS: 11.5) y embriones (R: 9.25 – PS: 5.6), pero sí se atribuye a la raza, la calidad y el estado de desarrollo embrionario que se obtuvieron, siendo la raza Reyna la que obtuvo mejor calidad de embriones aunque por ser la que más embriones dió, también fue la que brindó mayor cantidad de embriones degenerados y oocitos infértiles que son intransferibles.