background the aim of the present study was to compare two analgesic techniques for transrectal ultrasound (trus)-guided biopsy: diclofenac patch versus periprostatic nerve block with 1% lidocaine. objectives to study the efficacy of and compare diclofenac patch and periprostatic nerve block as analgesia in trus-guided prostate needle biopsy. patients and methods in total, 60 patients were pros...

v Résumé vii Riassunto ix Chapter 1 – Introduction 1 Biodiversity decline 1 A changing landscape due to human actions 2 Why are amphibians so threatened with extinction? 10 The effect of ponds and landscape characteristics on amphibian distribution 11 Metapopulation structure and inter-patch distance 15 Statistical tools 16

This paper presents a reconstruction of missing textures based on error reduction algorithm using fourier transform magnitude estimation method. In this method fourier transform magnitude is estimated for a target patch including missing areas, and the missing intensities are estimated by retrieving its phase based on error reduction algorithm. In this method the errors are monitoring in the er...

A missing texture reconstruction method based on an error reduction (ER) algorithm including a novel estimation scheme of Fourier transform magnitudes is presented in this correspondence. In our method, Fourier transform magnitude is estimated for a target patch including missing areas, and the missing intensities are estimated by retrieving its phase based on the ER algorithm. Specifically, by...

We propose an experiment to rate the merit of four algorithms in achieving satisfactory tone-mapping. The appearance of a unique scene including luminance gradations and a wide distribution of luminance patches has been evaluated in both real and simulated situations by the same observers. The real scene consisted of a wide wall receiving controlled illumination. The test consisted of two horiz...

We conducted a factorial simulation experiment to analyze the relative importance of movement pattern, boundary-crossing probability, and mortality in habitat and matrix on population density, and its dependency on habitat fragmentation, as well as inter-patch distance. We also examined how the initial response of a species to a fragmentation event may affect our observations of population dens...

The positive relationship between habitat heterogeneity and species richness is a cornerstone of ecology. Recently, it was suggested that this relationship should be unimodal rather than linear due to a tradeoff between environmental heterogeneity and population sizes. Increased environmental heterogeneity will decrease effective habitat sizes, which in turn will increase the rate of local spec...

A new concept to design thin directional broadband antennas on EBG or HIS surfaces is proposed. Using our proposed concept an octave or more bandwidth is obtained with fairly thin EBG structures even at UHF frequencies allowing low profile antenna design and development. At the heart of the proposed scheme lies the concept of a non-uniform aperiodic EBG surface where the EBG patch size and thei...

The process of repairing the damaged area or to remove the specific areas in a video is known as video inpainting. To deal with this kind of problems, not only a robust image inpainting algorithm is used, but also a technique of structure generation is used to fill-in the missing parts of a video sequence taken from a static camera. Most of the automatic techniques of video inpainting are compu...

In this paper, we propose a new compact quasi-fractal shaped microstrip antenna that consists of a hexagonal patch as the main radiator and a complementary stacked patch as the parasitic element. The overall surface of the proposed quasi-fractal patch is about 55% lower than the conventional hexagonal patch. Using of stacked technique, the gain reduction of compression technique is almost compe...