In the paper an algorithm for the recognition of erythrocytes is presented and experimentally evaluated. The objects of interest are localised and extracted from digital microscopic images, stained by means of the MGG (May-Grunwald-Giemsa) method in greyscale. The area covering a single red blood cell (RBC) is transformed from Cartesian to polar co-ordinates. Later, the two-dimensional Fourier ...

A variety of microbial communities and their genes (microbiome) exist throughout the human body, playing fundamental roles in human health and disease. The NIH funded Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium has established a population-scale framework which catalyzed significant development of metagenomic protocols resulting in a broad range of qualitycontrolled resources and data including s...

Transitional metal oxide nanoparticles as advanced environment and energy materials require very well absorption performance to apply in practice. Although most metal oxides are based on crystalline, high activities can also be achieved with amorphous phases. Here, we reported the adsorption behavior and mechanism of methyl blue (MB) on the amorphous transitional metal oxide (Fe, Co and Ni oxid...

Recent dramatic bleaching events on coral reefs have enhanced the need for global environmental monitoring. This paper investigates the value of present high spatial resolution satellites to detect coral bleaching using a change detection technique. We compared an IRS LISS-III image taken during the 1998 bleaching event in Belize to images taken before the bleaching event. The sensitivity of th...

In Systems Biology, system identification, which infers regulatory network in genetic system and metabolic pathways using experimentally observed time-course data, is one of the hottest issues. The efficient numerical optimization algorithm to estimate more than 100 real-coded parameters should be developed for this purpose. New real-coded genetic algorithm (RCGA), the combination of AREX (adap...

We studied 27 patients diagnosed with pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade on which pericardiocentesis was performed. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the benefits and limits of the cytological examination of the pericardial liquid in the etiological diagnosis and the treatment of patients with cardiac tamponade. The pericardial liquid taken was examined macroscopically, biochemi...

Diclofenac sodium (DS) is considered as priority anti-inflammatory pollutant because of its presence in water. In this paper, we addressed the issue of using organo-K10 montmorillonite as adsorbent of DS to reduce its negative effects on the environment. An organo-K10 montmorillonite (MK10-C16) was prepared by intercalating the organic cation cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (C16) in a K10 montmo...