RJ Biggar  ME Taylor  JV Neel  B Hjelle  PH Levine  FL Black  GM Shaw  PM Sharp  BH Hahn 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1996,216(1):165-173

The human T-lymphotropic virus type II (HTLV-II) is found in many New World Indian groups in North and South America and may have entered the New World from Asia with the earliest migration of ancestral Amerindians over 15,000 years ago. To characterize the phylogenetic relationships of HTLV-II strains infecting geographically diverse Indian populations, we used polymerase chain reaction to amplify HTLV-II sequences from lymphocytes of seropositive Amerindians from Brazil (Kraho, Kayapo, and Kaxuyana), Panama (Guaymi), and the United States (the Navajo and Pueblo tribes of the southwestern states and the Seminoles of Florida). Sequence analysis of a 780-base pair fragment (located between the env gene and the second exons of tax/rex) revealed that Amerindian viruses clustered in the same two genetic subtypes (IIa and IIb) previously identified for viruses from intravenous drug users. Most infected North and Central American Indians had subtype IIb, while HTLV-II infected members of three remote Amazonian tribes clustered as a distinct group within subtype IIa. These findings suggest that the ancestral Amerindians migrating to the New World brought at least two genetic subtypes, IIa and IIb. Because HTLV-II strains from Amazonian Indians form a distinct group within subtype HTLV-IIa, these Brazilian tribes are unlikely to be the source of IIa viruses in North American drug users. Finally, the near identity of viral sequences from geographically diverse populations indicate that HTLV-II is a very ancient virus of man.  相似文献   

    

PH Magnée  den Hartog SG  van Wees BJ  TM Klapwijk  van de Graaf W  G Borghs 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1995,52(16):11630-11633

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PG Dempsey  MM Ayoub  PH Westfall 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1998,41(8):1222-1241

An experiment was conducted to examine the role that maximal lifting power has in predicting maximum acceptable weight of lift (MAWL) for a frequency of one lift per 8 h. The secondary aim of the study was to compare the ability of power to predict MAWL to previously used measures of capacity including two measures of isometric strength, five measures of isokinetic strength, and isoinertial capacity on an incremental lifting test. Twenty-five male subjects volunteered to participate in the experiment. The isometric tests involved maximum voluntary contractions for composite lifting strength at vertical heights of 15 and 75 cm. Peak isokinetic strength was measured at velocities of 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8 m s-1 using a modified CYBEX II isokinetic dynamometer. Isoinertial lifting capacity was measured on the X-factor incremental lifting machine and peak power was measured on the incremental lifting machine by having subjects lift a 25 kg load as quickly as possible. The results indicate that peak isoinertial power is significantly correlated with MAWL, and this correlation was higher than any of the correlations between the other predictor variables and MAWL. The relationships between the isokinetic strength measures and MAWL were stronger than the relationships between the isometric measures and MAWL. Overall, the results suggest that tests used to predict MAWL should be dynamic rather than static.  相似文献   

    

M Paulli  E Berti  E Boveri  S Kindl  E Bonoldi  C Gambini  R Rosso  G Borroni  V Straccapansa  U Magrini  JE DeCoteau  PH Krammer  P M?ller  ME Kadin 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1998,29(11):1223-1230

The spectrum of CD30+ cutaneous lymphoproliferative disorders is characterized by the histology of a high-grade lymphoma but frequent clinical regression of skin lesions in lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP) and occasional regression in CD30+ large cell lymphomas (LCLs). A recent study shows that apoptosis may be a significant mechanism of regression of LyP (Arch Dermatol 133:828-833, 1997). Therefore, we studied expression of proteins that induce apoptosis, including CD27, CD40, CD95, and nerve growth factor receptor (NGF-R), as well as anti-apoptotic protein bcl-2 in skin lesions from 25 patients within the spectrum of CD30+ cutaneous lymphoma. Our results show consistent expression of CD95 (APO-1/Fas), but rare or absent expression of CD27, CD40, and NGF-R on tumor cells from both regressing LyP lesions and nonregressing CD30+ lymphomas. Bcl-2 was expressed at low levels in LyP and at high levels in pleomorphic CD30+ lymphomas. These results indicate that, in addition to CD30, CD95 expression is preferentially expressed at high levels in all cutaneous CD30+ lymphomas and suggest that CD95 may play a role in the regression of CD30+ skin lesions. Expression of bcl-2 appears to protect tumor cells from apoptosis in CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorders.  相似文献   

    

TR Scott  PH Peckham  KL Kilgore 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1996,4(4):251-263

For the purpose of bimanual control of tetraplegic hands that have useful movement restored by a neuroprosthetic device, the use of myoelectric signals from bilateral sternoclei-domastoid muscles is proposed. Three state control has been proposed where each sternocleidomastoid controls its ipsilateral hand. Demonstration was made with spinal-cord-injured and nonspinal-cord-injured subjects providing three levels of activation that can be repeatably made with each of these muscles. The agonist and antagonist sternocleidomastoids during this command control were differentiated so that the desired hand will respond to a command. Neither normal head movements nor head position within its comfortable range of motion were shown to interfere with the proposed command. The provision of feedback was shown as important to provide robustness in the operation for the users selection of the right or left hand. The performance of spinal cord injured and noninjured persons using this controller was quantitatively measured through the completion of precision tracking tasks by the manipulation of on-screen virtual hands. All subjects were able to operate the controller with a degree of skill acceptable for completion of functional tasks with bilateral stimulated hand grasps. The sensitivity of the subjects performance to variation in controller parameters was also measured.  相似文献   

    

SF Pate  RW Zurmühle  AH Wuosmaa  PH Kutt  ML Halbert  DC Hensley  S Saini 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1990,41(4):R1344-R1347

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L Clavelli  PH Cox  B Harms 《Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly》1987,35(4):1385-1387

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Hu‐Chuan Lu  Ying‐Jie Huang  Yen‐Wei Chen 《International journal of imaging systems and technology》2010,20(3):253-260

PCA, ICA, and Gabor wavelet are considered as the important and powerful face representation methods. In this article, we propose a new approach for face representation, which is called a pixel‐pattern‐based texture feature (PPBTF) and apply it to the real‐time facial expression recognition. A gray scale image is transformed into a pattern map where edges and lines are used for characterizing the facial texture information. Based on the pattern map, a feature vector is comprised of the numbers of the pixels belonging to each pattern. We use the image basis functions obtained by principal component analysis as the templates for pattern matching. Adaboost and Support Vector Machine are adopted to classify facial expression. Extensive experiments on the Cohn‐Kanade Database, PIE Database, and DUT Database illustrate that the PPBTF is quite effective and insensitive to illumination. The comparison with Gabor show the PPBTF is speedy. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 20, 253–260, 2010  相似文献   

    

D Woo  J K Yen  P Sofronas 《Analytical chemistry》1973,45(12):2144-2145

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M. Pankow  A.M. Waas  C.F. Yen 《计算机、材料和连续体（英文）》2012,32(2):81-106

The compression response of 3D woven textile composites (3DWC) that consist of glass fiber tows and a polymer matrix material is studied using a combination of experiments and finite element based analyses. A previous study reported by the authors consisted of an experimental investigation of 3DWC under high strain rate loading, Pankow, Salvi, Waas, Yen, and Ghiorse (2011). Those experimental results were explained by using the finite element method to analyze the high rate deformation response of representative volume elements (RVEs) of the 3DWC, Pankow, Waas, Yen, and Ghiorse (2012). In this paper, the same modeling strategy is used to examine the quasi-static, compressive deformation response of 3DWC. The effect of using different numbers of the textile repeat unit architecture in the RVE, on the predicted compression strength, is examined. The transitions in failure modes that are seen in experiments are seen to be captured by the model that is presented here.  相似文献