Digital holography is greatly extending the range ofholography's applications and moving it from the lab into the field: a single CCD or other solid-state sensor can capture any number of holograms while numerical reconstruction within a computer eliminates the need for chemical development and readily allows further processing and visualisation of the holographic image. The steady increase in ...

A sample size with sufficient statistical power is critical to the success of genetic association studies to detect causal genes of human complex diseases. Genome-wide association studies require much larger sample sizes to achieve an adequate statistical power. We estimated the statistical power with increasing numbers of markers analyzed and compared the sample sizes that were required in cas...

In this paper we propose a new method for rendering soft shadows at interactive frame rates. Although the algorithm only uses information obtained from a single light source sample, it is capable of producing realistic looking penumbra regions. We do not claim that the proposed method is physically correct but rather that it is aesthetically correct. Since the algorithm operates on sampled repr...

Over the past two decades, many biotechnology platforms have been developed for high-throughput gene expression profiling. However, because each platform is subject to technology-specific biases and produces distinct raw-data distributions, researchers have experienced difficulty in integrating data across platforms. Data integration is crucial to data-generating consortiums, researchers transi...

The considerable increase in the number of renewable energy sources power systems recent years has led to grid side converters’ connection requirements being more and strict. In order comply with newly arising codes, synchronization unit provide a fast robust response even under unbalanced distorted line voltage. This paper proposes new method for very extraction symmetrical components. uses fi...

The development of high throughput single-cell technologies now allows the investigation of the genome-wide diversity of transcription. This diversity has shown two faces: the expression dynamics (gene to gene variability) can be quantified more accurately, thanks to the measurement of lowly-expressed genes. Second, the cell-to-cell variability is high, with a low proportion of cells expressing...

A cotton textile dried with various hygroscopic salts then contaminated with Staphylococcus epidermidis and dried again, showed remarkable reduction in viable bacterial cells. Of the salts investigated, sodium acetate was found to have the greatest antibacterial effect. Calcium chloride, magnesium chloride and magnesium sulfate, also showed some antibacterial effect. For sodium acetate, drying ...