Rameshwar D. Gupta was the speaker of a seminar titled “Generalized Exponential Distributions”. Gupta received his PhD degree in statistics from Dalhousie University in 1973. He worked in the University of the West Indies, University of Saskatchewan. He joined the University of New Brunswick in 1980. He has received the Merit Award at the University of New Brunswick at Saint John four times. Pr...

Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is an important problem in the domain of digital data management. There is indeed a growing availability of images, but unfortunately the traditional metadata-based search systems are unable to properly exploit their visual information content. In this article we introduce a novel CBIR scheme that abstracts each image in the database in terms of statistical ...

A systematic series of seven mercury compounds of (E)-N-(pyridin-2-ylmethylidene)arylamine (L), where L is a variously R substituted ligand, with the formulations [HgX2L]2: X = Cl; R = 4-CH2CH3 (4), 4-OCH2CH3 (5), 4-Cl (6), 2-CO2CH3 (7), or 4-CO2CH3 (8); X = Br; R = 4-CO2CH3 (9a) and [HgX2L]: X = Br; R = 4-CO2CH3 (9b) and X = I; R = 4-CO2CH3 (10), were synthesized. All compounds have been struc...

Segmentation is an essential requirement in medicine when digital images are used illness diagnosis, especially, posterior tasks as analysis and disease identification. An efficient segmentation of brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) prime concern to radiologists due their poor illumination other conditions related de acquisition the images. Thresholding a popular method for that uses histog...

Vito Di Gesù University of Palermo, Italy Sankar Kumar Pal Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Alfredo Petrosino University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scientific Program Committee: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Jim Bezdek University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA Isabelle Bloch ENST-CNRS, Paris, France Piero Bonissone GE CRD, Schenectady, USA ...

DEDICATION To my parents and friends v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my advisor Professor Wayne Burleson and Prof. Sandip Kundu for all their support and guidance throughout this work. Their valuable feedback helped me to focus on the topics of this research. I also would like to thank Prof. Joseph Bardin for serving on my committee and providing valuable suggestions during the course ...

Mitophagy is an important mechanism in mitochondrial quality control through autophagic clearance of damaged mitochondria and has been considered to assume protective roles against some diseases, especially neurodegeneration, including Parkinson's disease (Haelterman et al., 2014), and Alzheimer's disease (Ye et al., 2015). To understand the role of mitophagy in these diseases, measures to asse...

The emission of solar flares at millimeter wavelengths is of great interest both in its own right and because it is generated by the energetic electrons which also emit gamma rays. Since high-resolution imaging at gamma-ray energies is not presently possible, millimeter observations can act as a substitute. Except for that class of flares known as gamma-ray flares the millimetric emission is op...