BACKGROUND Around 90% of melanomas are caused by ultraviolet (UV) exposure and are therefore eminently preventable. Unhealthy tanning behavior is mostly initiated in early adolescence, often with the belief that it increases attractiveness; the problems related to skin atrophy and malignant melanoma are too far in the future to fathom. Photoaging desktop programs, in which an image is altered t...

A sensitive, rapid, and simple method is presented for the simultaneous quantitation of the major phospholipids and neutral lipids using an image analyzer after separation by one-dimensional thin-layer chromatography. A clear-cut separation of the lipids was achieved on one EDTA-impregnated chromatoplate with five step-wise developments. An image was acquired, and the integrated optical densiti...

Today’s major image search engines, which focus on searchby-image-content, work by matching and retrieving of images that are already available on the web. With the proliferation of user generated content, especially from mobile devices, there is a need to develop applications which are more content-aware, i.e. can understand and recognize what is in the image, and which can handle the deterior...

Social networking sites are used for both personal and professional interactions. Social apps thrive in the environment provided by social networking sites. Companies are focussing on this market space to promote their products and to identify new sources of revenue generation. The objective of our paper is to identify the factors for purchase decision and word of mouth of virtual and digital g...

The electron optics of a 90 degree spherical deflecting analyzer (SDA-90) is investigated with an imaging matrix formalism. As a preanalyzer in the UTAneutrino experiment, high transmission and reasonable energy resolution are the choices of optimization. The magnification of the source through the analyzer plays the key role in determining the energy resolution. The imaging matrix approach pro...

A smartphone is said to be an extension of a mobile user’s oneself. It the ultimate device today for humans, one that humans cannot avoid using, leave behind when on move and becomes necessity own one. allows communicate perform many daily personal tasks. Smartphones continue evolve embedding advanced technologies, sophisticated processes applications. This symbiotic combination generates immen...

Background: Electromyography (EMG) signal processing and Muscle Onset Latency (MOL) are widely used in rehabilitation sciences and nerve conduction studies. The majority of existing software packages provided for estimating MOL via analyzing EMG signal are computerized, desktop based and not portable; therefore, experiments and signal analyzes using them should be completed locally. Moreover, a...

This report describes the development of a standalone business card reader for Android smartphones. We use image processing techniques to preprocess the card’s image, which might have been taken from a difficult perspective, unfavorable lighting conditions, or partial occlusions. The text in the preprocessed image is then extracted using optical character recognition (OCR) and parsed to isolate...