The removal of Total and Volatile Suspended Solids (TSS/VSS) was studied in a pilot-scale UASB (Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Bed) reactor treating settled sewage under subtropical conditions (Salta, Argentina). The effect of sludge bed height (hsb) and upflow velocity (Vup) on the removal of TSS and VSS was assessed. TSS and VSS removal efficiencies of up to 95% have been achieved when Vup ≤ 0.43 m/...

Child-on-child harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) at school is highlighted in the literature, although very little known about how teachers experience it. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was used to address this knowledge gap. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine from two special schools and one mainstream school. The proverb of three wise monkeys as an analogy aid sense-mak...

INTRODUCTION Appropriate medical care seeking could prevent a significant number of child deaths and complications due to ill health. This study aims to determine factors affecting health seeking behavior (HSB) for childhood illnesses, thereby improving child survival. METHODS A cross sectional study was carried out from January 11 to April 2, 2012. A total of 212 caretakers of children under...

Median filtering is being used extensively for image enhancement and anti-forensics. It also to disguise the traces of processing operations such as JPEG compression resampling when utilized in de-noising smoothing tool. In this paper, a robust forensic technique namely HSB-SPAM proposed assist median detection. The considers higher significant bit-plane (HSB) highlight statistical changes effi...

1 – Shot Boundary Detection Our shot boundary work was based upon three core techniques. The first, histogram similarity, involved construction of color histograms for each frame, where the color space was compressed to RGB values of three bits each, yielding a 512 bin histogram and also represented in HSB space. We have also included an averaging filter that is very useful in reducing the effe...

Deformable template representations of observed imagery, model the variability of target pose via the actions of the matrix Lie groups on rigid templates. In this paper, we study the construction of minimum mean squared error estimators on the special orthogonal group, SO(n), for pose estimation. Due to the nonflat geometry of SO(n), the standard Bayesian formulation, of optimal estimators and ...