OBJECTIVE Evaluation of early compositional changes in healing articular cartilage is critical for understanding tissue repair and for therapeutic decision-making. Fourier transform infrared imaging spectroscopy (FT-IRIS) can be used to assess the molecular composition of harvested repair tissue. Furthermore, use of an infrared fiber-optic probe (IFOP) has the potential for translation to a cli...

Based on the accumulated data, FTIR spectroscopy seems to be a highly sensitive tool in cervical cancer diagnosis. We, therefore, employed this technique in a screening type of research here in Tehran. The purpose of this study was to look for the spectral pattern differences between normal and malignant cervix samples in Iranian women. Through formal and informal announcements, all gynecology ...

In this paper we present a systematic approach to applying expressive performance models to non-expressive score transcriptions and synthesizing the results by means of concatenative synthesis. Expressive performance models are built from score transcriptions and recorded performances by means of decision tree rule induction, and those models are used both to transform inexpressive input scores...

introduction: ninety four females who attended at the ultrasound department of royal hospital for women underwent a transabdominal ultrasound to detect polycystic ovaries (pco). material and methods: thirty-seven individuals had scan normal ovaries and 38 had scan evidence of polycystic ovary (pco). all the subjects were sent a bulimia investigation test (edinburgh) (bite) questionnaire for abn...

the radial trace transform was introduced by the stanford exploration project many years ago (ottolini, 1979 and claerbout, 1983), primarily for use in migration and imaging applications. it has been shown subsequently, because of its particular geometry, to be very useful for wavefield separation (claerbout, 1983) and coherent noise attenuation (henley, 1999). the radial trace transform, unlik...

It is well-known that the skew-normal distribution can provide an alternative model to the normal distribution for analyzing asymmetric data. The aim of this paper is to propose two goodness-of-fit tests for assessing whether a sample comes from a multivariate skew-normal (MSN) distribution. We address the problem of multivariate skew-normality goodness-of-fit based on the empirical Laplace tra...

The low voltage level synchrophasor measurement data are investigated to estimate the damping ratio and to detect any oscillation mode using Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT). Complex Morlet (CM) is selected as a mother wavelet function considering its ability to reveal time and frequency localization simultaneously. A Two Area Four Machine System (TAFMS) model...

eqn (2.189) (/ pP −m) γ u(pP) = 0 (/ p−m) γ u(pP) = 0 eqn (2.276) +1 following eqn (2.276) following eqn (2.278) eqn (2.361) −1 transform as transform as (normal ordering is implicitly assumed) eqn (2.378) −1 a parity transformation a passive parity transformation eqn (2.385) −1 The transformation The active transformation eqn (2.404) −1 The transformation The active transformation eqn (2.408) ...