background: one of the methods used for standard setting is the borderline regression method (brm). this study aims to assess the reliability of brm when the pass-fail standard in an objective structured clinical examination (osce) was calculated by averaging the brm standards obtained for each station separately. materials and methods: in nine stations of the osce with direct observation the e...

In this paper, the capacity of four-month-old infants from monolingual environments to distinguish between two syllable-timed languages is analysed. Catalan and Spanish are both Romance languages which present differences at the segmental level and at the syllable structure level, but show important similarities concerning prosodic structure at the phonological phrase level. Nevertheless, the p...

Periodic noises are unwished and spurious signals that create repetitive pattern on images and decreased the visual quality. Firstly, this paper investigates various methods for reducing the effects of the periodic noise in digital images. Then an adaptive optimum notch filter is proposed. In the proposed method, the regions of noise frequencies are determined by analyzing the spectral of noisy...

Design of a compact broadband filter using tightly coupled line sections in defected (A slot is cut in the ground) microstrip medium operating from 3.1–6.8 GHz has been reported in this article. Filter has been designed and analyzed using an equivalent circuit model based on even and odd mode parameters of coupled line sections. The proposed filter has attenuation poles on either side of the pa...

In this work, we are interesting in the analysis and the design of an ultra wideband (UWB) band pass filter with improved upper stop band performances, using microstrip lines. The design of the UWB band pass filter is based on the use of stepped-impedance low pass filter and high pass filter; whereas the simulation of its frequency response ([S]) is done using MATPAR software and it is based on...

This note calculates the requirements of the anti-aliasing filter for the read-out of the fluorescence detector of the AUGER experiment. The filter order and its cut-off frequency are related to the errors in area and timing reconstruction. 1 System transfert functions The Fluorescence Detector read-out channel consist of a current preamplifier followed by a low pass anti-aliasing filter and a ...