GIS databases often need to include maps from diverse sources. These can differ one another by many characteristics: different projections or reference systems, (slightly) different scales, etc. Theoretical and/or empirical transformations are available in literature to obtain maps in a unique system with a fixed tolerance. These transformations are nevertheless insufficient to completely remov...

A 65-year-old man, with no previous significant complete blood count findings and no preexisting concern for hematopoietic malignancy, presented for baseline bone marrow evaluation as a potential donor for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant for his brother, a patient with mantle cell lymphoma (cyclin D1). Marrow aspirate smear (panel A) revealed 7% myeloid precursors, 36% erythroid precur...

This paper presents promising new technologies for soft ground improvement which include the low improvement ratio cement column method (LCC) and the lightweight banking method using foam mixed soil (LFS). As a measure to reduce settlement and lateral deformation due to road embankment loading on soft ground, the column type deep mixing method used at a low improvement ratio of around 10-20% th...

Recent (2007) developments in automated integration of vector geospatial data with image data combine techniques for extracting point features from image data with algorithms that match point features between data layers. The precision and accuracy of an image-extracted point feature depend on various factors related to the feature extraction technique and to the quality of the image in the are...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of treating scars with microporous paper tape or silicone gel sheeting (SGS) in preventing hypertrophic scarring. METHODS Forty hypertrophic scars were induced in a validated rabbit ear model. Wounds were randomized and bandaged for 30 days with either SGS (20 wounds), paper tape (20 wounds), or untreated controls (40 wounds). Two outcome measures of h...

Our laboratory previously reported (Anal Chem 55: 2345-2348, 1983) the development of a digitizer and FORTRAN program for display and quantification of digitized autoradiographic images. We have since added several capabilities to the program. Coarse "rubber sheeting" (i.e., transforming coordinates to superimpose images) of the image by a quadratic transformation of pixel coordinates is develo...

Mixture model is a probabilistic model that denotes the presence of subpopulations within an overall population meanwhile finite mixture model is a mixture model with finite-dimensional. In this paper, finite mixture model is applied and the application of Bayesian method to fit finite mixture model is popular and these application is adopt in the present study in order to explore the relations...

The effects of baking with broccoli powder on the consumer perception and sensory characteristics were investigated using a model system of cookies incorporated with broccoli powder as a value-added food ingredient. Broccoli powder was incorporated into cookie dough at 5 levels (0%, 1%, 2%, 3%, and 4%, w/w) by replacing equivalent amount of wheat flour of the cookie dough. After aging and sheet...