Herbert Weiner (1921–2002)

2016A Weiner Microbial Cell

In order to combat the on-going malaria epidemic, discovery of new drug targets remains vital. Proteins that are essential to survival and specific to malaria parasites are key candidates. To survive within host cells, the parasites need to acquire nutrients and dispose of waste products across multiple membranes. Additionally, like all eukaryotes, they must redistribute ions and organic molecu...

Herbert Thoms

The eventful chapters of contemporaneous medical history in Connecticut have not yet received the historian's scrutiny and are still only records scattered here and there in organization archives and miscellaneous correspondence. Many of us have been a part of these events and as participants are poorly qualified to place values on them. As in all history, one must await the developing vista of...

Herbert Herbert: his corneal pits and scleral slits.

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...

Improve Speech Enhancement Using Weiner Filtering

Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality by using various algorithms. It may sound simple, but what is meant by the word quality. It can be at least clarity and intelligibility, pleasantness, or compatibility with some other method in speech processing. Wiener filter are rather simple and workable, but after the estimation of the background noise, one neglects the fact that the signal ...

Alan Rumsey and James Weiner / Emplaced Myth