... grasping and assimilating the facts of grammar, and create a distaste forthe study Itis therefore the leading object of this book to be both as scholarly and as practical as possible In it there ... that a small grammar will hold them all Making rules is risky Itis also evident, to those who have studied the language historically, that itis very hazardous to make rules in grammar: what is ... grammar has a great advantage over the teacher of other sciences, in that the facts he has to call attention to lie ready at hand for every pupil to observe without theuseof apparatus of any kind...
... corrupted by uniformly distributed salt and pepper noise at different densities for evaluating the performance ofthe algorithm Three images are selected They are Lena, Cameraman, and Boat image A quantitative ... autocorrelation for lags and Sort the 1-D array Z and calculate the median value Assuming stochastic approximation for maintaining simplest computational complexity Replace the noisy pixel bythe median value ... If the value is or 255, then itisa noisy pixel and itis substituted bya substitution pixel Array labeled Y1 displays an image corrupted by salt and pepper noise EURASIP Journal on Advances...
... 1984; Rixom and Mailvaganam, 1986), also contain considerable information on HRWRAs In the early years, theuseof HRWRAs was limited because of problems such as a higher than normal rate of slump ... is used, slump control prior tothe addition ofthe HRWRA is critical for quality control, whether the admixture is added at the plant or job site Accurate measurement and compensation of aggregate ... greater the retardation in setting Itis necessary for manufacturers to provide an acceptable range of dosages, because these products are used in a variety of situations and climatic conditions...
... PDA’s, camcorders and digital photo cameras A disadvantage of these storage solutions isthe relatively high cost ofthe storage media per Megabyte (MB) and the absence of ROM media for distribution ... and out -of- plane thermal actuators are also used to prevent the delamination problem ofthe bi-layer actuator [28-29] 2.2.4 Electromagnetic actuator Magnetic actuator is often fabricated by electroplating ... response of this kind of actuator is relatively low compared to PZT actuator Lay Lay Heating Fig 2-8: Bi-layer thermal microactuator Except the bi-layer thermal actuator, single layer in-plane and...
... performance ofthe vehicle After analysis ofthe data elements in each database and the technical literature, a comparison was made with the listing of current and potential EDR capabilities to ascertain ... science and technology and to their useforthe general welfare On the authority ofthe charter granted toitbythe Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires itto advise the federal ... automakers, and other organizations Of particular importance was a priority ranking exercise conducted in collaboration with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)...
... shows the higher magnification SEM image of nanowire tops It can be clearly seen that, at every one top of these nanowires, there isa droplet whose diameter is much larger than that of related nanowire ... EDS also detected the existence of iron only at the top of SiOx nanowires The fact suggested that the Fe3O4 catalysts play a key role in the formation of SiOx nanowires, and a VLS mechanism isthe ... synthesized bythe method The EDS measurement achieved on the nanowire top displays the existence ofa small amount of elemental iron Further sample characterization was carried out using transmission...
... This is also in accordance tothe biological data that ahigh excess weight ratio of HDL to LPS is necessary fora saturation ofthe tumor necrosis factor -a production (Fig 10) The comparison of ... reduction ofthe immunostimulatory activity can be found [21], it may be hypothesized that a basic prerequisite fora decrease ofthe endotoxicity of LPS isthe neutralization ofthe its negative charges ... detector with delay line readout [12] The s-axis was calibrated with tripalmitate, which has a periodicity of 4.06 nm at room temperature Details ofthe data acquisition and evaluation system can be...
... line-scan sensor (C) is parallel tothe axis yw and the optical axis pO passes through the central axis ofthe object αscan isthe angle between planes Πscan and Πxw ,yw We choose an αscan near ... reflectivity A part ofthe light rays emitted by (D) is passing the Nr slits ofthe ray aperture (AR ) We assume that all the slits have the same length Ls and the same width ws A certain length Ls is ... minima datasets containing the position of bright and dark image lines are built from the image pattern f For all image maxima and minima the shape, see (1), the distancem, and the intensity values...
... (biochemical failure) beforethe appearance of clinically evident disease with a median lead-time of months (range, - 15 months) An analysis of all patients (n = 112) indicated that the sensitivity and ... residual tumor and involved the parametrium without any midline shielding The dose tothe para-aortic area was 45 Gy, with or without an additional booster dose of 10 Gy Intracavitary brachytherapy ... the database and data analysis SSS and SYP provided additional guidance and support for this research All authors read and approved the final version ofthe manuscript Competing interests The authors...
... from further participation, as it would be difficult to isolate the pain and disability burden due to knee osteoarthritis from that attributable to cerebrovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, ... efficacious than paracetamol [23] As the price of both forms of analgesia is fairly equivalent, the question arises as to why the villagers are focusing on using NSAIDs and ignoring paracetamol for their ... By using an analysis of variance for continuous variables and a c2 test for categoric variables, we compared sociodemographic characteristics ofthe three groups of participants We examined the...
... treatments and allow comparison between them Although the utility of HFOV as rescue therapy is clearer, its precise role as primary therapy in patients with ARDS remains unclear The trial by ... ventilation protocols Because itis very clearly how a ventilator mode is used, not just which mode is chosen, clear descriptions ofthe ventilator protocols and the adherence to them are essential ... respect tothe priority of airway pressure, frequency and pressure amplitude (∆P) in weaning These issues only underline the importance of explicit ventilation protocols so as to standardise across...
... environment The natural history of LBP must be considered as a plausible explanation for this patient's recovery There is relatively little quality information available on the natural history of LBP ... McGrath PA, Rafii A, Buckingham B: Thevalidationof visual analogue scales as ratio scale measures for chronic and experimental pain Pain 1983, 17:45-46 Roland M, Morris R: A study ofthe natural ... pain elimination was refractory At this time, the physical therapist discussed the case with the chiropractor, who is located in the same clinic at the air station, and subsequently ordered a...
... Language at Vinh University, the performance with the assistance ofITis more popular with the skills of listening, reading, and speaking than that of writing skill As a result, theIT application to ... discover drawbacks of CALL in the context of higher learning and the findings will be a useful tract of information for lecturers and education administrators to enhance the application ofIT ... accepted as CALL Levy (1997:1) similarly stated that CALL isthe search for and study of applications ofthe computer in language teaching and learning As aimed in this thesis, CALL is used to...
... cause the failure ofthe mapping Thus, one ofthe fundamental limitations of choosing the anatomy ofa single subject as an atlas isthe introduction ofa statistical bias based on the arbitrary ... increases 1.2.3 Statistical Analysis After the HARDI datasets across a population have been warped into the common HARDI atlas, the non-linear nature of HARDI data presents a challenge to HARDIbased ... create a white matter parcellation atlas based on probabilistic maps ofthe major white matter tracts and show that there is an excellent correlation of fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity...
... of large deform diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM), the set of anatomical shapes are placed into a metric shape space This is modeled by assuming that the shapes are generated from one tothe ... slight abuse, the result ofthe natural pairing between m and v in cases where m isa pointwise density This identity is classically written as −1 φ∗ mt = kV vt , where φ∗ is referred to as the ... BACKGROUND are many different parameterizations of PDFs that are equivalent but with different forms ofthe Fisher-Rao metric, leading tothe Riemannian operations with different computational...
... at each sampling direction via a series of transformations and applying itto transform the orientation, there is in fact an analytical closed form formula forthe reorientation as provided by ... real brain HARDI data This registration approach will facilitate atlas generation and group analysis of HARDI fora variety of clinical studies 55 DIFFEOMORPHIC METRIC MAPPING OFHIGH ANGULAR ... related issues are avoided and we can make a fair comparison Our image data are acquired using a 3T Siemens Magnetom Trio Tim scanner with a 32-channel head coil at the National University of Singapore...
... addition, the hyperatlas is used as the initialization forthe atlas in the EM algorithm Therefore, the anatomy ofthe estimated atlas can be dependent on the choice ofthe hyperatlas In this section, ... generated the average atlas by averaging the SHC across all the warped subjects Fora fair comparison, we kept all other conditions the same forthe generation of both Bayesian and averaged atlases, ... IMAGING The total variation of J (i) relative to I (i) is then denoted by σ The goal here isto estimate the unknown atlas Iatlas and the variation σ To solve forthe unknown atlas Iatlas , we...
... that the R2 value decreases dramatically as the noise increases Low values of R2 statistically mean that the regression geodesic explains a small portion ofthe variance ofthe synthetic data ... as the anatomical reference The deformation that relates the baseline b0 image without diffusion weighting tothe T2-weighted image characterized the geometric distortion ofthe DWI For this, ... especially at the boundary ofthe white matter fiber (e.g., panels (b) and (e)), as age increases Additionally, as age increases, the anisotropy at the primary direction of CC is reduced at crossing...
... illustrate the performance of our registration algorithm We also presented a Bayesian probabilistic model to estimate the HARDI atlas ofthe brain white matter First of all, we assumed that the HARDI ... however, have not been widely used by clinicians and neuroscientists partially due to their relatively long acquisition times In addition, there isa lack of fundamental image analysis tools, such as ... , NATALIA S PIERINGS , DAVID R E VANS , M ARIE S ONG , AND C HRIS A C LARK Atlas-based segmentation of white matter tracts ofthe human brain using diffusion tensor tractography and comparison...
... 1998) Data storage densityis measured by areal density, which isthe amount of data stored with a square inch of disk media Itis calculated bythe multiplication of track density TPI (track per ... Experimental data shows the variation and diversity ofthe material properties and the actuator performance Therefore, itis also necessary to introduce probabilistic approaches and statistical tools ... is primarily caused bythe flexibility ofthe pivot assembly and the mass of head actuator assembly (HAA) (Mah et al., 1999), and isthe main factor that limits the servo bandwidth Some researchers...