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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"3-D structure"”.
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Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Protein 3-D Structure Alignment and Genome Sequence Comparison
Sequence analysis and structure analysis are two of the fundamental areas of bioinformatics research. This dissertation discusses, specifically, protein structure related problems including protein structure alignment and query, and genome sequence related problems including haplotype …
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Superpixel Segmentation of Outdoor Webcams to Infer Scene Structure
Understanding an outdoor sceneΓÇÖs 3-D structure has applications in several ∩¼üelds, including surveillance and computer graphics. Scene elementsΓÇÖ time-series brightness gives insight to their geometric orientation; and thus the 3-D structure of the overall scene. Previous works have studied the …
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Three-dimensional cloud volume reconstruction from the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer
… It has been suggested that understanding the 3-D structure of cloud would lead to better understanding of the Earth's radiative and latent fluxes. Indeed, knowing cloud 3-D geometry could lead to: 1) improving our understanding of cloud microphysical properties and processes, and 2) improving our …
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Structurally Motivated Deep Learning for Genome Scale Protein Interaction Prediction
… model on protein complexes with known 3-D structure, we find that the inter-protein contact map output by D-SCRIPT has significant overlap with the ground truth. We apply this work for functional discovery in several non-model species and explore the viability of the D-SCRIPT framework for …
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Study on the development of the mouse ossicles using Micro-CT
… to determine the three - dimensional(3-D) structure of the mouse temporal bone and to provide a survey atlas of the temporal bone structures in mice. The temporal bones of adult BALB/c mice were examined, and 3-D high-resolution reconstructions of the temporal bone were obtained using a …
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Deep learning methods to study structurally heterogeneous macromolecules in vitro and in situ
… RNA, and other biomolecules form complex 3-D structures that dynamically interact to carry out essential biological processes. These macromolecular complexes are often structurally heterogeneous, which is key to executing or regulating their specific biological functions. To understand the …
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De Novo Protein Structure Modeling from Cryoem Data Through a Dynamic Programming Algorithm in the Secondary Structure Topology Graph
… and energetically favorable 3-Dimensional (3-D) structure which is critical and unique to its biological function. In contrast to other methods for protein structure determination, Electron Cryorricroscopy (CryoEM) is able to produce volumetric maps of proteins that are poorly soluble, large and …
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Studio di biomateriali usati come scaffold per Tissue Engineering e loro caratterizzazione con tecniche spettroscopiche vibrazionali e di analisi termica
… composition in case of composite materials; – Structure and conformation of polymeric and peptidic chains; – mechanism and degradation rate; – Intramolecular and intermolecular interactions (hydrogen bonds, aliphatic interactions). This kind of information are of great importance in the …
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Tools for decoding the structure-function relationships of biopolymers in nanotechnology and glycobiology
… new tools have been developed for decoding structure-function relationships governing complex biopolymers that have emerged as key players in biology, biotechnology, and medicine. Specifically: (1.) The first part of this thesis addresses the structure-function relationship of synthetic …
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Advanced Methods for Change Detection in LiDAR Data and Hyperspectral Images
… data that accurately characterize the 3-D structure and the spectral signature of the area of interest, respectively. With the upcoming generation of small sensors designed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) and new spaceborne missions such data will be acquired more and more often …
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Ambient seismic noise imaging using trans-dimensional and machine learning techniques with application to Borneo and Iceland
… or re-enforced our understanding of Earth structure and processes. At the same time, computational advances have led to the use of sophisticated Bayesian trans-dimensional inversion schemes, which allow for variable resolution and can estimate posterior uncertainty, though at increased …
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Modeling the effects of environmental and ecological processes on the transport, mortality, growth and distribution of early stages of Cape Anchovy (Engraulis Encrasicolus) in the Benguela system
… and its inter-annual variability; (4) the 3-D structure of the current in the nursery area on the west coast, (5) The swimming abilities of the pre-recruits in both the vertical and the horizontal planes. Two factors appear to be of major importance in effecting mortality during the period …
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Novel Methods based on the Fusion of Multisensor Remote Sensing Data for Accurate Forest Parameter Estimation
… more comprehensive representation of the forest structure. Accordingly, the goal of this thesis is the development of novel methods for the automatic estimation of forest parameters that can exploit the different properties of multiple remote sensing data sources. The thesis provides five main …
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Unravelling the Dynamical Mechanisms Underpinning Intra-Plate Volcanism Within and Around Earth's Continents
… field. These simulations highlight that the 3-D structure of lithospheric thickness controls the spatio-temporal occurrence of plume magmatism. A single plume can activate decompression melting simultaneously in separate locations, which can be as far as 1,000 km away from each other. …
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Unravelling the Dynamical Mechanisms Underpinning Intra-Plate Volcanism Within and Around Earth's Continents
… field. These simulations highlight that the 3-D structure of lithospheric thickness controls the spatio-temporal occurrence of plume magmatism. A single plume can activate decompression melting simultaneously in separate locations, which can be as far as 1,000 km away from each other. …
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Structural studies of putative general stress and related proteins from Deinococcus radiodurans
… depicted that global changes occur within the structure of DR_1146 on binding to FMN. The high quality of spectra obtained showed potential for 3-D structure determination by NMR if ordered crystals could not be obtained for X-ray diffraction. Interestingly, analysis of NMR spectra proved to be …
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Determination of the Binding Site and the Key Amino Acids on Maize β-Glucosidase Isozyme Glu1 Involved in Binding to β-Glucosidase Aggregating Factor (BGAF)
… β-glucosidases, and an examination of the 3-D structure of Glu1 suggested that the BGAF binding site on Glu1 is much smaller than predicted previously. To define more precisely the BGAF binding site, we constructed additional chimeric β-glucosidases. The results showed that a region spanning 11 …
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Crustal seismic velocity structure of the intermontane and coastal belts, southwestern Canadian Cordillera
… program include; i) determining 2-D velocity structure and interrelationships of the component erranes, ii) defining the depth and configuration of the Mohorovic discontinuity, and iii) determining the extent of vertical displacement of major faults within the region. In particular, it was …
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Preparation and characterization of templated borophosphates and metalloborophosphates
… employed to determine and refine the crystal structures. DTA-TG methods were used to analyze the thermal stability. High temperature powder X-ray diffraction (HT-XRD) was applied to study the thermal behavior of products and identify the intermediate phase during the decomposition. Chemical …
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AEROMECHANICS OF A DOUBLE ANHEDRAL TIP COMPOSITE ROTOR: EXPERIMENT AND MODELING
… were measured. A double anhedral tip is a 3-D structure. Accordingly, a 3-D model was developed with CATIA (CAD), Cubit (hexahedral meshing), and X3D (aeromechanics). The 3-D CAD was constructed with guidance from Boeing to ensure the geometry was representative of a modern rotor yet generic …
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