UNLABELLED Serotonergic 5-hydroxytryptamine-1A (5-HT1A) receptors are of interest in the pathophysiology of several neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety, depression and schizophrenia. [Carbonyl-11C]WAY-100635 has recently been shown to be suitable for quantitative determination of 5-HT1A receptors in the human brain using PET. For group comparisons of neuroreceptor distribution on a pixel...

Abstract We present a new, model-independent approach for measuring non-Gaussianity of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern. Our approach is based on the empirical distribution function of the normalized spherical harmonic expansion coefficients alm of a nearly full-sky CMB map, like the ones expected from forthcoming satellite experiments. Using a set of Kolmogorov-Smirnov ...

Medical ultrasound is a powerful nonivasive diagnostics tool. Due to physical factors of the diagnostics system, ultrasound generated images usually contain some noise where specle noise is often a prominent component. In this paper we propose an adaptive median filter with adaptive window size for removing speckle noise from ultrasound medical images, including the case when spots are larger t...

introduction: studies with single photon emission computed tomography (spect) have revealed inconsistent changes of regional cerebral blood flow (rcbf) in schizophrenia. some studies investigated the rcbf and its relationship with psychopathology, positive and negative symptoms in treated patients. however, there is a little information about the pattern of rcbf in recently untreated or never t...

In computer vision and digital photogrammetry solving the correspondence problem is one of the most important field of research. Conventional methods used to generate dense density maps for stereo image pairs is classified as either area based or feature based methods. In this paper a multi decision area based approach has been proposed that performs pixel matching in stereo-pairs. The approach...

Generative models, and Adversarial Networks (GAN) in particular, are being studied as possible alternatives to Monte Carlo simulations. It has been proposed that, certain circumstances, simulation using GANs can be sped-up by quantum (qGANs). We present a new design of qGAN, the dual-Parameterized Quantum Circuit (PQC) GAN, which consists classical discriminator two generators take form PQCs. T...

In a visual cryptography scheme, a secret image is encoded into n shares, in the form of transparencies. The shares are then distributed to n participants. Qualified subsets of participants can recover the secret image by superimposing their transparencies, but non-qualified subsets of participants have no information about the secret image. Pixel expansion, which represents the number of subpi...

The mouse gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transporter mGAT1 was expressed in neuroblastoma 2a cells. 19 mGAT1 designs incorporating fluorescent proteins were functionally characterized by [(3)H]GABA uptake in assays that responded to several experimental variables, including the mutations and pharmacological manipulation of the cytoskeleton. Oligomerization and subsequent trafficking of mGAT1 we...

The increasing expansion of rubber plantations throughout East and Southeast Asia urgently requires improved methods for effective mapping and monitoring. The phenological information from rubber plantations was found effective in rubber mapping. Previous studies have mostly applied rule-pixel-based phenology approaches for rubber plantations mapping, which might result in broken patches in fra...