Many spatial domain error concealment techniques, which are used in decoder to improve visual quality of damaged images, have been proposed in the past years. Each algorithm is based on different assumptions and has different performance under different conditions. However, there is no extensive comparative evaluation available in literature. Performance evaluation helps us to understand the st...

A digraph G = (V, E) with diameter D is said to be s-geodetic, for 1 ≤ s ≤ D, if between any pair of (not necessarily different) vertices x, y ∈ V there is at most one x → y path of length ≤ s. Thus, any loopless digraph is at least 1-geodetic. A similar definition applies for a graph G, but in this case the concept is closely related to its girth g, for then G is s-geodetic with s = b(g − 1)/2...

The metabolism-induced binding of 14C-labelled misonidazole (MISO) to hypoxic V79 cells in multicell spheroids has been quantitated using autoradiography. Hypoxia was shown to be the major determinant of the rate of binding. Maximally hypoxic cells bound MISO several times more rapidly than necrotic material in the centre of the spheroids, and up to 50 times more rapidly than well oxygenated ce...