Microscopy has been a diagnostic tool for TB for over a century, and still currently the most rapid diagnostic method. Standard light microscopy (LM) and fluorescent microscopy (FM) are common methods. The recent development of light emitting diodes (LED), with the ap‐ propriate fluorescent light output for FM and low power consumption, has led to the devel‐ opment of simple, robust LED FM micr...

The environmental mismatch caused by additiv e noise and/or channel distortion often degrades th e perform ance of a s peech reco gnition sys tem seriously . V arious ro bustness techniques have been proposed to reduce this mismatch, and one category of them aim s to normalize the statistics of speech fea tures in both training and testing conditions. In general, these statistics norm alization...

We address here th e resolution of the so-called inverse problem for the iterated functions system (IFS). This problem has already been widely considered, and some studies have been performed for the affine IFS , using determin ist ic or stochast ic methods (simulated annealing or genetic algorithm). In dealing with the nonaffine IFS, the usual techniques do not perform well unless some a prior...