Of the many papers on the subject of spina bifida few are concerned mainly with the orthopaedic problems it presents. Macnab (I954) has indicated that, particularly since the advent of antibiotics, the early mortality rate is not as high as formerly, so that although the treatment of associated hydrocephalus is still not satisfactory, more patients may survive to require orthopaedic care. It is...

In this paper, we propose a context-sensitive technique for unsupervised change detection in multitemporal remote sensing images. The technique is based on fuzzy clustering approach and takes care of spatial correlation between neighboring pixels of the difference image produced by comparing two images acquired on the same geographical area at different times. Since the ranges of pixel values o...

For the problem of change detection it is difficult to have sufficient amount of ground truth information that is needed in supervised learning. On the contrary it is easy to identify a few labeled patterns by the experts. In this situation to avoid wastage of available information semi-supervision is suggestible to enhance the performance of unsupervised ones. Here we present the fuzzy cluster...

Acute osteomyelitis is common and may still cause serious permanent disability even though antibiotic treatment is given. The early diagnosis is often difficult and many problems in treatment remain unanswered. Forty-five patients with acute osteomyelitis were admitted to the orthopaedic department of Fulham Hospital under the care of Mr Lipmann Kessel between December 195 1 and December 1958. ...

Scientific and Standardization Committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis.Thromb Haemost 2000; 84: 918. 4. Oger E, Scarabin PY. Assessment of the risk for venous thromboembolism among users of hormone replacement therapy. Drugs Aging 1999; 14: 55-61. 5. Hulley S, Crady C, Bush T, Furberg C, Herrington D, Riggs B, Vittinghoff E for the heart and Estrogen/progestin Repla...

Nonlinear dynamic systems identification and nonlinear dynamic behavior prediction are important tasks in several areas of industrial applications. Multiple works proposed multimodel-based approaches to model nonlinear systems. Multimodeling permits to blend different model types together to form hybrid models. It advocates the use of existing, well known model types within the same model struc...

The Psychologist T HIS article started life as a review of Test Your Psychic Powers by Susan Blackmore and Adam Hart-Davis (1995). The author of the review, Andrew Colman, felt that one of the issues he wished to raise was not only controversial but also of sufficient importance and general interest to warrant an open discussion incorporating more than one opinion, so he approached the editor o...

An algorithm to classify the network traffic based on improved support vector machine (SVM) is presented in this paper. Each feature of the traditional support vector machine (SVM) algorithm has the same effect on classification rather than considering its practical effect. To improve the classification accuracy of SVM, the probabilistic distributing area of a feature in a kind of network traff...

A ROLE FOR REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPYbyMICHAEL PRICEDecember 2012Advisor:David Kessel, Ph.D.Major:Cancer BiologyDegree:Doctor of PhilosophyPhotodynamic therapy (PDT) is based on the ability of certain photosensitizingagents to selectively localize in neoplastic cells and their vasculature. Subsequentirradiation at a wavele...

Kessel, R. W. I. (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J.), Henry H. Freedman, and Werner Braun. Relation of polysaccharide content to some biological properties of endotoxins from mutants of Salmonella typhimurium. J. Bacteriol. 92:592-596. 1966.-Endotoxins were extracted by the phenol-water procedure from a variety of Salmonella typhimurium mutants with known differences in the com...