The diffusion of tracer proteins at low concentration was measured in solutions containing "background" proteins at concentrations of up to 200 g/liter. The fractional reduction of the diffusion coefficient of tracer in the presence of a given weight/volume concentration of background species generally increases with increasing size of tracer species and with decreasing size of background speci...

Background: Radon (222Rn), a naturally occurring radioactive gas, dissolves in water, and it can be found elevated concentrations public water supplies when originates from ground sources areas rich uranium. An area of great interest for measuring radon-in-water is the Migdonia basin Northern Greece due to its geological background because all villages are supplied with boreholes.
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We present an approach to tracking multiple human subjects within a camera network. A particle filter framework is used in which we combine foreground-background subtraction with a novel approach to texture learning and likelihood computation based on an ellipsoid model. As there are inevitable problems with multiple subjects due to occlusion and crossing, we include a robust method to suppress...

The low-level task of foreground-background segregation is an important foundation for many high-level computer vision tasks and has been intensively researched in the past. Nonetheless, unregulated environments usually impose challenging problems, especially the difficult and often neglected underwater environment. There, among others, the edges are blurred, the contrast is impaired and the co...

We present a real-time algorithm for foreground–background segmentation. Sample background values at each pixel are quantized into codebooks which represent a compressed form of background model for a long image sequence. This allows us to capture structural background variation due to periodic-like motion over a long period of time under limited memory. The codebook representation is efficient...

background: the sources of radioactivity in the environment have natural, terrestrial and extraterrestrial, and anthropogenic origins. plants may get radioactive nuclides in two ways: (i) by the deposition of radioactive fallout, (ii) by absorption from the soil. materials and methods: the concentrations of the natural radionuclides (226ra, 228ra, 40k) and the artificial radionuclide (137cs) in...

background: diabetic men have been claimed to have lower serum free testosterone (ft) concentrations than non-diabetic men. the aim of this study was to investigate if serum ft, luteinizing hormone (lh), and follicle stimulating hormone (fsh) concentrations are different in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus compared with healthy men and to identify factors associated with low serum testost...