Image analysis is an image processing technique that aims to extract features or information from images. Image analysis in medicine has a special place because is a basis for disease diagnosis for physicians. Electrophoresis is a laboratory separating technique. Electrophoresis images are created during the electrophoresis process. Serum protein and hemoglobin electrophoresis test are the ...

Golay has used the ergodicity postulate to calculate that the merit factor F of a Legendre sequence offset by a fraction f of its length has an asymptotic value given by l/F= (2/3)-41fj+ 8f2, IfI I l/2, which gives F= 6 for IfI =1/4. Here this is proved without using the ergodicity postulate.

We obtain low complexity tail-biting trellises for some extremal self-dual codes for various lengths and fields such as the [12,6,6] ternary Golay code and a [24,12,8] Hermitian self-dual code over GF(4). These codes are obtained from a particular family of cyclic Tanner graphs called necklace factor graphs.

Spherical graphs are graphs in which every interval is antipodal, and represent an interesting generalization of hypercubes (a graph G is a hypercube if and only if G is spherical and bipartite). Besides hypercubes, there are many interesting examples of spherical graphs that appear in design theory, coding theory and geometry e.g. the Johnson graphs, the Gewirtz graph, the coset graph of the b...

“Beauty, however, in its general aspect, is the inseparable characteristic of the idea when it has become known. In other words, everything is beautiful in which an idea is revealed; for to be beautiful means no more than clearly to express an idea.” — Schopenhauer (2004-eBook edition) “In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius: he will have to wait fo...

Marcel survived the genocide. So did Monique. Their five children were not so fortunate. With a resilience almost super-human, Marcel and Monique rebuilt their lives, Marcel resuming his work with UNICEF in successive duty postings in Africa and Europe. I remember meeting with him in Bamako a few years back. There was a funding shortfall for the measles campaign. He was all business, pulling ou...

J.E. Hirsch (2005) introduced the h-index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output by the largest number h of a scientist’s papers that received at least h citations. To take into account the highly skewed frequency distribution of citations, L. Egghe (2006a) proposed the g-index as an improvement of the h-index. I have worked out 26 practical cases of physicists from the Institut...

Im Rahmen des Betrugsbekämpfungspakets zur Gegenfinanzierung der Steuerreform 2015 stellt ein Schwerpunkt das Beschreiten neuer Wege durch innovative Methoden in der Fallauswahl von Steuerprüfungsfällen dar. Mit Hilfe von Predictive Analytics wird versucht aus bereits festgestellten Nachforderungsfällen, inklusive Betrugsfällen, über deren Muster und DatenCharakteristik auf ähnlich gelagerte Fä...

| In the late 50s Slepian introduced a structure theory for linear, binary codes and proved that every such code was uniquely the sum of indecomposable codes. He had hoped to produce a canonical form for the generator matrix of an indecompos-able code so that he might read oo the properties of the code from such a matrix, but such a program proved impossible. We here work over an arbitrary eld ...