Purpose This study aimed to investigate the association between vitamin D and systemic sclerosis (SSc) by meta-analysis. Methods A comprehensive search was performed through June 12, 2017. Pooled standardized mean difference (SMD) was used to estimate the mean vitamin D difference between case and control groups (or between diffused- and limited-type SSc). Pooled risk ratios (RRs) with 95% co...

Halftoning is a process that deliberately injects noise into the original image in order to obtain visually pleasing output images with a smaller number of bits per pixel for displaying or printing purposes. In this paper, a novel inverse halftoning method is proposed to restore a continuous tone image from the given halftone image. A set theoretic formulation is used where three sets are defin...

Partha Sarathi Mohanty1*, Preeti Singh1, Avi Kumar Bansal2 and Umesh Datta Gupta3 1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra 2Clinical Division, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Agra 3Department of Animal Experimentation, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycoba...

Abstract number 1141410 Two recent accidents with a significant oil spill occurred near the French coast. One in Mediterranean Sea and other Bay of Biscay. On October 7, 2018, Tunisian ro-ro vessel Ulysses collided Cypriot container ship CSL Virginia at anchor off northern Corsica. The spilled bunker could not be fully recovered by Italian anti-pollution vessels due to unfavourable weather cond...