Suspension feeders rely on filter structures of a variety of forms to capture food particles. Much effort has been devoted to examining the operation of such filters, but mechanistic evaluations have generally represented filter elements with artificially stiff cylinders. We extended this previous work to investigate how bending affects the function of flexible cylindrical filter elements. Scal...

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...

Hydrolysed polyacrylamide (HPAM) mother liquor is mainly used to extract oil. The HPAM solution is needed to filter the impurity using a bag filter before it is injected into the oil well. Therefore, the pressure drop of HPAM mother liquor must be less than 0.02 MPa in the processing of impurity filtration. The influence factors on pressure drop need to be researched. In this work, the computat...

In this paper we propose a state estimation approach for linear parabolic Partial Differential Equations (PDE) with uncertain parameters. It is based on an extension of the Galerkin projection method. The extended method models projection coefficients, representing the state of the PDE in some basis, by means of a Differential-Algebraic Equation (DAE). The original estimation problem for the PD...

A 72-year-old man with a history of inferior vena cava (IVC) filter (TrapEaseTM, Cordis) implantation for deep venous thrombus 3 years ago was admitted to our emergency department in shock. His systolic blood pressure was 60 mmHg, and his heart rate was 112 beats/min. Marked venous congestion appeared only in his lower body (Figure 1A). Computed tomography showed the collapsed IVC (Figure 1B). ...

Diabetic Retinopathy caused by leakage of blood or fluid from the retinal blood vessels and it will damage the retina. Yellow flecks are called hard exudates. Exudates are the lipid residues of serous leakage from damaged capillaries. Design new wavelet filter for extraction of exudates using fundus images. This algorithm is tested on online databases such as, STARE, DRIVE, Diarect DB0, Diarect...

We study the time until a filter becomes clogged due to the trapping of suspended particles as they pass through a porous medium. This trapping progressively impedes and eventually stops the flow of the carrier fluid. We develop a simple description for the pore geometry and the motion of the suspended particles which, together with extreme-value statistics, predicts that the distribution of ti...

A high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) method using ultrafiltration to pretreat peritoneal fluid and bile samples is developed to measure meropenem and biapenem concentrations in human peritoneal fluid and bile. Meropenem or biapenem in peritoneal fluid or bile samples is stabilized by mixing with 1 mol/L 3-morpholinopropanesulfonic acid buffer (pH 7.0) (1:1). The mixture is transferre...

Background: Nowadays, image de-noising plays a very important role in medical analysis applications and pre-processing step. Many filters were designed for image processing, assuming a specific noise distribution, so the images which are acquired by different medical imaging modalities must be out of the noise. Objectives: This study has focused on the sequence filters which are selected ...