And her other organs were so covered in small white tumours it looked as if someone had filled her with pearls.” It was perhaps the ferocity of her cancer that made the cells grow successfully in the laboratory. “Henrietta’s cells weren’t merely surviving, they were growing with mythological intensity,” writes Skloot. “Soon they were being shipped to research institutes around the world, where ...

A new filtering approach designed to eliminate impulsive noise in color images, while preserving fine image details is presented in this paper. The computational complexity of the new filter is significantly lower than that of the Vector Median Filter. The comparison shows that the new filter outperforms the VMF, as well as other standard procedures used in color image processing, when the impu...

In this study, the adsorption of thallium (III) ion from aqueous solutions onto modified ZnOnanopowder as a fairly low cost adsorbent has been investigated in batch mode. It was found thatmodification of the adsorbent was essential for obtaining the significant adsorption percentage. Theadsorbent modified by sodium phosphate solution. The effect of experimental parameters such asinitial pH of s...

The power system always has several variations in its profile due to random load changes or environmental effects such as device switching effects when generating further transients. Thus, an accurate mathematical model is important because most system parameters vary with time. Curve modeling of power generation is a significant tool for evaluating system performance, monitoring and forecastin...