in this study the factors controlling the software colorimetry (photoshop), including illumination (direct and indirect), image background (white and black), camera settings (zoom, light, resolution and environmental conditions) and the conversion equations of r, g, b images to l *, a *, b *, compared with the results of the device were investigated and optimized. the results showed that the fa...

These ruminations are based on based on UTR 25 (Unicode and Mathematics), revision 7, section 2.11 (Geometric Shapes) in particular. The conclusions are-(i) a plea for more consistency when naming characters; (ii) a request that characters based on abstract shapes should have some indicator of the size of the character relative to the rest of the font; (iii) that the code chart entry for U+2023...

BACKGROUND A higher risk of preterm birth among black women than among white women is well established in the United States. We compared differences in preterm birth between non-Hispanic black and white women in Canada and the US, hypothesizing that disparities would be less extreme in Canada given the different historical experiences of black populations and Canada's universal health care syst...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate ethnic differences in left ventricular (LV) remodeling between highly-trained athletes of African/Afro-Caribbean (black) and Caucasian (white) athletes. BACKGROUND The upper limits of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are established in white athletes and aid the differentiation of physiologic LVH from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Ho...

Significant disparities in survival, incidence and possibly response to current therapies exist between black and white patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Recent genomic evidence to account for these disparities has been reported for clear cell RCC. However, racial disparities at the genomic level for papillary RCC (pRCC) which is a genetically distinct and less responsive histologic sub...