Motion compensation using the optimal full search algorithm is often too computational heavy for real time implementation. Many suboptimal fast search algorithms have been proposed. In particular, Liu and Zaccarin proposed the Alternating Subsampling Search Algorithm (ASSA). The ASSA reduces the computation by subsampling the pixels instead of limiting the search locations. It was shown that AS...

Alkanes are major constituents of crude oil and are released to the marine environment by natural seepage and from anthropogenic sources. Due to their chemical inertness, their removal from anoxic marine sediments is primarily controlled by the activity of anaerobic alkane-degrading microorganisms. To facilitate comprehensive cultivation-independent surveys of the diversity and distribution of ...

Abstract The scarcity of samples and disunity feature inputs hinder the enhancement transformer fault diagnosis performance, there are mutual influences between model construction selection, which cannot only consider a single process. Therefore, this study proposes novel two‐stage strategy, includes multi‐filter interactive selection method (MIFS) constructed, ASSA‐SVM based on adaptive sparro...

36 Being an African, I have lived with uncertainty all my life. Our continent provides an ever-changing challenge. Being born an African destines you to remain an African. Some of us have attempted to challenge this; most have had only limited success in escaping Africa’s grasp. In Africa things are different; some say this is fun, others are upset by it. The threats that face our profession he...

AIM To determine the frequency and risk factors for colorectal cancer (CRC) development among individuals with resected advanced adenoma (AA)/traditional serrated adenoma (TSA)/advanced sessile serrated adenoma (ASSA). METHODS Data was collected from medical records of 14663 subjects found to have AA, TSA, or ASSA at screening or surveillance colonoscopy. Patients with inflammatory bowel dise...

Based on the salp swarm algorithm (SSA), this paper proposes an efficient metaheuristic for solving global optimization problems and optimizing two commonly encountered geotechnical engineering structures: reinforced concrete cantilever retaining walls shallow spread foundations. Two new equations leader- followers-position-updating procedures were introduced in proposed adaptive (ASSA). This c...

Unfortunately on May 14th, 2015 our colleague and friend Assa Reichert lost his battle against his difficult disease. Assa, Reichert, our very long time member of Board and Council of European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), was our a true friend. He devoted to his family, his country, his friends, his profession and EFMI, IMIA and Medical informatics, generally. As Medical informati...

BACKGROUND In Iranian folk medicine, several plants are used for treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, such as diarrhea and spasm. One of these herbal medications are the essential oil yielded from seeds of Ferula assa-foetida L. and an oleo-gum-resin known as asafetida, which is exudated from its root. F. assa-foetida grows wildly in south and central mountains of Iran. AIM In this study,...

We present ASSA-PBN, a tool for approximate steady-state analysis of large probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs). ASSA-PBN contains a constructor, a simulator, and an analyser which can approximately compute the steadystate probabilities of PBNs. For large PBNs, such approximate analysis is the only viable way to study their long-run behaviours. Experiments show that ASSAPBN can handle large PB...