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In each case, the laser Doppler scanner was positioned to ensure that the laser beam was perpendicular to the patient's feet.
Note that the dividing cell exhibits a perpendicular (90 degrees) long axis to the plane of the ST layer (see discussion for importance and comment).
To detect differences in the extent of compaction between transparent and cataractous diabetic lenses, some of the same analysis procedures outlined in our previous SEM compaction study were used [ 4 ] . In brief, each sample was oriented with the features of interest perpendicular to the viewing angle (0° tilt).
The Canny edge detector can be briefly described using Equation 1 developed to detect the local maxima in the direction perpendicular to the edge.
However, such primordial di-protomeric AAA polypeptides would have to have been simpler than those present in NSF, ClpA and p97 and other AAA proteins of the current era, for the latter assemble into two-tiered hexameric assemblies, with the axis joining the two protomers in each polypeptide oriented perpendicular to the plane of the hexameric ring [ 14 ] . We cannot, at present, exclude an alternative model for midasin structure in which the hexameric AAA ring assembly is a dimeric two-layered structure formed by two midasin polypeptides arranged laterally with all six odd-numbered protomers in one layer and all six even-numbered protomers in the other.