BACKGROUND Clostridium difficile is the major cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhoea with the potential risk of progressing to severe clinical outcomes including death. It is not unusual for Clostridium difficile infection to progress to complications of toxic megacolon, bowel perforation and even Gram-negative sepsis following pathological changes in the intestinal mucosa. These c...

We introduce a symmetric version of the Fer expansion for the solution of the ODE y 0 = (t; y)y. We show that the scheme are time symmetric for linear problems, and, because of the symmetry of the scheme, one gets order 2p + 2 whereby the classical Fer expansion would display order 2p + 1 only. This reduces signiicantly the computational cost of the classical Fer expansion. We prove the converg...

The performances of turbo coded modulation using asymmetric turbo codes with transmission and reception antenna diversity are analysed. We have considered that the component convolutional codes have the memory 2 and 3 (i.e. 4 and 8 states), and their generator feedback polynomials are both primitive and nonprimitive. To study both cases, simulations were performed to obtain the bit error rate (...

Abstract. Association of organic carbon (OC) with reactive iron (FeR) represents an important mechanism by which OC is protected against remineralisation in soils and marine sediments. Recent studies indicate that the molecular structure compounds and/or identity associated FeR phases exert a control on ability OC–FeR complex to be extracted citrate–bicarbonate–dithionite (CBD) method. However,...

Recently, the recognition of occluded facial expressions attract more and more people’s attention. Sparse representation based classification (SRC) method gives good performance on face recognition (FR) and facial expression recognition (FER), well-known for its robustness to occlusion. Histograms of Oriented Gradient (HOG) descriptors are very efficient to represent the shape information of di...

A system for detecting and analyzing behavior of a sports person from their facial expression extracted from a sports video from the basis of this project. Shot Segmentation, Object Frame Selection, Image Segmentation, Facial Feature Extraction and Facial Expression Recognition (FER) are the major steps included in developing Cognitive Analysis of Facial Expression Recognition system from Sport...