Gorgonian octocorals (order Alcyonacea) are the most abundant components of shallow eastern Pacific marine communities (Breedy & Guzman, 2003a). They occur mainly in zones of strong current swell and breaking surf, attached to rocky bottoms, shells, and small rock fragments (Breedy & Guzman, 2002). Although abundant, the eastern Pacific octocoral fauna was considered poorly known by Bayer (1981...

ETRI Journal, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2006 ABSTRACT⎯This letter proposes a new near-lossless image compression method with only one line buffer cost for a digital camera with Bayer format image. For such format data, it can provide a low average compression rate (4.24bits/pixel) with high-image quality (larger than 46.37dB where the error of every pixel is less than two). The experimental re...

3 Michael Anbar, Ozgur Gul, Raphael Lamed, Ugur O. Sezerman 4 and Edward A. Bayer* 5 6 Department of Biological Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7 76100 Israel 8 2 Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Sabanci University, Orhanli, Tuzla, 9 Istanbul, Turkey 10 3 Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, 11 Ramat Aviv 69978 Israel...

The discovery of polyurethane [PU] dates back to the year 1937 by Otto Bayer and his coworkers at the laboratories of I.G. Farben in Leverkusen, Germany. The initial works focussed on PU products obtained from aliphatic diisocyanate and diamine forming polyurea, till the interesting properties of PU obtained from an aliphatic diisocyanate and glycol, were realized. Polyisocyanates became commer...

10-74 David Badesch, MD Dr. Badesch has received honoraria for service on steering committees or advisory boards (or as a consultant) to the following companies working in the area of pulmonary hypertension: Actelion/CoTherix, Gilead/Myogen, Encysive, Pfizer, Mondo-Biotech/Mondogen, Biogen IDEC, United Therapeutics/Lung Rx, GlaxoSmithKline, Lilly/ICOS, Bayer, Ikaria, and Arena. He has received ...

Ergonomics analysis of line workers in the electric power industry who work overhead on utility poles revealed some tasks for which less than 1% of the general population had sufficient strength to perform. During a 2-year study, a large Midwestern US electric utility provided a university with a team of represented workers and management. They evaluated, recommended, and monitored intervention...

Digital images from a CCD or CMOS sensor with a color filter array must undergo a demosaicing process to combine the separate color samples into a single color image. This interpolation process can interfere with the subsequent superresolution process. Plenoptic superresolution, which relies on precise sub-pixel sampling across captured microimages, is particularly sensitive to such resampling ...

This thesis addresses the problem of Bayer-pattern video communications using Wyner-Ziv video coding (WZVC). It is studied how to take advantage of the low encoding complexity and the inherent error resiliency of WZVC for video compression and transmission. Moreover, it is investigated how to optimize the coding process specifically for Bayer-pattern video in order to improve the coding efficie...

Digital Still Color Cameras sample the color spectrum using a monolithic array of color filters overlaid on a charge coupled device array such that each pixel samples only one color band. The resulting mosaic of color samples is processed to produce a high resolution color image such that the values of the color bands not sampled at a certain location are estimated from its neighbors. This proc...