The widespread ability of eukaryotic cells to produce thin cytoplasmic sheets or lamellae 100-200 nm thick can give rise to uncertainties in the interpretation of interference reflection microscopy (IRM) images when cell-substratum topography is the key interest. If allowed to spread upon a poly-L-lysine-coated surface, Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae typically form ultrathin lamellae of appro...

In the past decade, there has been rapid scale-up of insecticide-based malaria vector con‐ trol in the context of integrated vector management (IVM). But, the continued efficacy of vector control interventions is threatened by the selection of insecticide resistance. Evi‐ dence of insecticide resistance operationally undermining malaria vector control pro‐ grammes is invariably mounting and is ...

Content based image retrieval systems (CBIR) have drawn wide attention in recent years due to the exponential growth of multimedia information storage in various fields of life. Given a query image, the goal of CBIR system is to retrieve content related images from databases by employing suitable image matching algorithms. Many algorithms have been proposed in the past for image matching. This ...

The design and implementation of an incremental recompilation manager (IRM) for Standard ML of New Jersey (SML/NJ) is described. Truly separate compilation is diicult to implement correctly and eeciently for SML because one compilation unit may depend not only on the interface of another, but also on its implementation. In this paper we present an integrated compilation system based on the \vis...

The purpose of this study was to quantitatively compare the sealing effectiveness of five restorative materials that were used to create an intracoronal double seal. Fifty-two extracted mandibular molars were randomly divided into five groups of 10 teeth, and one positive and one negative control tooth. The crowns were removed and the pulpal floor and canal orifices were sealed with 3 mm of one...

We deepen the two main approaches to the problem of measurement error in social sciences, the Structural Equation Models (SEM) and the Item Response Theory Models (IRM), comparing two different estimation procedures. The One-step procedure (related to SEM) requires that researcher specifies a complete model of both measurement aspects (single link between the latent variable and its indicators)...

In this paper we present a Block Matching approach to registration of medical 2D images IRM/IRM. The registered images are assumed to be rigidly aligned before starting this procedure. The sum of absolute differences (SAD), sum of squared differences (SSD), mutual information (MI) and correlation coefficient (CC) are used as measures of similarity to determine the similarity between images as w...

Mr. D.L., aged 43, presented with cervical trauma resulting from a public road accident. Clinical examination revealed tetraparesis unexplained by the CT scan data showing vertebral fractures extending into the right C5 and C6 transverse foramen. Second-line cervical MRI showed edematous medullary contusion associated with occlusion of all the right extracranial VA and with intramural hematoma ...

Electrical bioimpedance (EBI) is a non-invasive technique for monitoring bladder volume. The EBI approaches global impedance (GI), ratio method (IRM), and voltage change (VCR) have been successfully applied to detect changes in the volume of objects with constant but unknown conductivity. In this work, simulated in-vitro experiments are used compare performance these methods respect new approac...