Split window (SW) methods, which have been successfully used to retrieve measurements of land surface temperature (LST) and sea surface temperature (SST) from MODIS images, were exploited to evaluate the SST data of three sections of Italian coastal waters. For this purpose, sea surface emissivity (SSE) values were estimated by adding the effects of salinity and total suspended particulate matt...

In cell biology, time-resolved fluctuation analysis of tracer particles has recently gained great importance. One such method is the local mean-square displacement (MSD) analysis, which provides an estimate of two parameters as functions of time: the exponent of growth of the MSD and the diffusion coefficient. Here, we study the joint and marginal distributions of these parameters for Brownian ...

Many images like medical images, satellite images, Arial images and even life photographs suffer from noise. Image enhancement techniques are used to improve the visual appearance of images by reducing noise from images. In this paper, a dynamic stochastic resonance (DSR) based algorithm is proposed to improve the visual quality by removing noise from digital image. Stochastic resonance (SR) is...

S U M M A R Y Wavelet analysis for filtering is used to improve estimation of gravity variations induced by Chandler wobble. This method eliminate noise in superconducting gravimeter (SG) records with bandpass filters derived from Daubechies wavelet. The SG records at four European stations (Brussels, Membach, Strasbourg and Vienna) are analysed in this study. First, the earth tidal constituent...

Exponential smoothing technique is one of the most important quantitative techniques in forecasting. The accuracy of forecasting of this technique depends on exponential smoothing constant. Choosing an appropriate value of exponential smoothing constant is very crucial to minimize the error in forecasting. This paper addresses the selection of optimal value of exponential smoothing constant to ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of mini-scleral design (MSD) contact lenses to treat keratoconus patients who were unsatisfied with the results of corneal inlay. METHODS In this prospective interventional case series, 9 eyes of 6 keratoconus patients who were unsatisfied with the results of corneal inlay were fitted with MSD contact lenses. Demographic data, uncorrected visua...

Tracking of fluorescently labeled chromosomal loci in live bacterial cells reveals a robust scaling of the mean square displacement (MSD) as τ(0.39). We propose that the observed motion arises from relaxation of the Rouse modes of the DNA polymer within the viscoelastic environment of the cytoplasm. The time-averaged and ensemble-averaged MSD of chromosomal loci exhibit ergodicity, and the velo...

convolution each of the BOLD responses with a single universal transfer function, modeled BOLD signals were generated which when differenced with the measured BOLD signals showed residual signals which were smaller than the measurement uncertainty. The root mean square (RMS) of the residual signal (left number) was compared with the averaged standard deviation (SD) of the measured data (right n...