Hough Transform Proposal and Simulations for Particle Track Recognition for LHC Phase-II Upgrade.

In the near future, LHC experiments will continue future upgrades by overcoming the technological obsolescence of the detectors and the readout capabilities. Therefore, after the conclusion of a data collection period, CERN will have to face a long shutdown to improve overall performance, by updating the experiments, and implementing more advanced technologies and infrastructures. In particular, the largest LHC experiment, i.

Identification and molecular characterization of the high-affinity copper transporters family in Solanum lycopersicum.

Copper (Cu) plays a key role as cofactor in the plant proteins participating in essential cellular processes, such as electron transport and free radical scavenging. Despite high-affinity Cu transporters (COPTs) being key participants in Cu homeostasis maintenance, very little is known about COPTs in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) even though it is the most consumed fruit worldwide and this crop is susceptible to suboptimal Cu conditions. In this study, a six-member family of COPT (SlCOPT1-6) was identified and characterized.

Recent developments in automatic scoring of rodent sleep.

Sleep research carried out on rat and mouse model led to the publication of more than 5000 papers in the last 15 years, of which more than 500 in 2014. Wake-sleep scoring represents a crucial step of the work performed in pre- clinical sleep laboratories; it is a time consuming task and a potential source of errors affecting research outcomes. Several algorithms have been developed to perform automatic sleep scoring.

SCOPRISM: a new algorithm for automatic sleep scoring in mice.

Background: Scoring of wake-sleep states by trained investigators is a time-consuming task in many sleep experiments. We aimed to validate SCOPRISM, a new open-source algorithm for sleep scoring based on automatic graphical clustering of epoch distribution.

Methods: We recorded sleep and blood pressure signals of 36 orexin-deficient, 7 leptin knock-out, and 43 wild-type control mice in the PRISM laboratory.