Bone carvings (and other ivory substitutes) are common in the modern-day lucrative international ivory trade.Souvenirs for unknowing travelers and market shoppers can be made of non-biological material (plastic "ivory" beads) or skillfully crafted natural objects made to resemble something other than their true origin.Many of these items are receiv

BackgroundFibroblast activation protein (FAP) is a cell-surface serine protease that has both dipeptidyl peptidase as well as endopeptidase activities and could cleave substrates at post-proline bond.Previous findings showed that FAP was hard to be detected in normal tissues but significantly up-regulated in remodeling sites like fibrosis, atherosc

In this paper, a synchronization balancing control is proposed based on the contraction theory of stability for inverted pendulum.The control scheme is applied to balance an inverted Acoustic Drum pendulum mounted on a moving cart with two wheels.The equations of motion of the system are divided into two cascade systems using the control law partit

This contribution considers turbo synchronization, that is to say, the use of soft data information to estimate parameters like copyright phase, frequency, or timing offsets of a modulated signal within an iterative data demodulator.In turbo synchronization, the receiver exploits the soft decisions computed at each turbo decoding iteration to provi