The existing patch sparsity based image inpainting algorithms have some problems in maintaining structure coherence and neighborhood consistence. To address the above problems, a robust and adaptive image inpainting algorithm based on a novel structure sparsity is proposed. The main improvement includes the following three aspects. Firstly, a novel structure sparsity function is defined accordi...

A 37 year old woman (G1P1 spontaneous delivery) was admitted to our university hospital for menometrorrhagia. The case history showed the patient had menometrorrhagia for six months; moreover, during the abdominal examination we found a mass occupying the hypogastric and mesogastric area. The consistence was hard and the mass reached the level of the umbilicus. The combined vaginal-abdominal ex...

This paper deals with the problems of consistence and strong consistence of the maximum likelihood estimators of the mean and variance of the drift fractional Brownian motions observed at discrete time instants. A central limit theorem for these estimators is also obtained by using the Malliavin calculus. 1. Introduction. Long memory processes have been widely applied to various fields, such as...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a short questionnaire as predictor of serum cholesterol obtained from a probabilistic sample of adolescents. METHODS A probabilistic sample of 5th to 12th grade students from state public schools in Niteroi, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was drawn based on 28 classes. Five hundred seventy-seven subjects had their blood collected, and 539 answered the simplified questio...

Using symmetry adapted basis sets of linearly combined Bloch sums, we summarize the basic equations for one-dimensional energy band structure calculations of extended-Hückel type such as SCC (Self-Consistence of Charge) and SCCC (Self-Consistence of Charge and Configuration). In addition to the considerable computational savings achievable by this technique, its main advantage is that band inde...

Our paper is a study about metabolism syndrome (MS) incidence situations of different nationalities, including Uighur, Kazak and Han nationality in Xinjiang by means of a cross-sectional survey and compare differences and adaptabilities of applications of the diagnostic criteria for MS recommended by Adult Treatment Protocol III of National Cholesterol Education Program of America (ATP III), In...

An ab initio study has been performed to investigate the influence of the surrounding point charges on the calculated electronic properties of the embedded NiO cluster. The employment of the nominal charges "2.0 would cause overestimation of the crystal potential even for the so-called ionic oxide NiO. Several criteria, namely, the charge, potential, dipole moment and charge density consistence...

This paper introduces a method for human action recognition based on optical flow motion features extraction. Automatic spatial and temporal alignments are combined together in order to encourage the temporal consistence on each action by an enhanced dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm. At the same time, a fast method based on coarse-to-fine DTW constraint to improve computational performance ...