Disparity Map Generation from Illumination Variant Stereo Images Using Efficient Hierarchical Dynamic Programming by Viral H. Borisagar, Mukesh A. Zaveri

“…Good quality disparity map is obtained with the optimized path. Homomorphic filtering is used as a preprocessing step to lessen illumination variation between the stereo images. …”
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Highly Porous Carbon Materials from Biomass by Chemical and Carbonization Method: A Comparison Study by Wan Nor Roslam Wan Isahak, Mohamed Wahab Mahamed Hisham, Mohd Ambar Yarmo

“…Porous carbon obtained by dehydrating agent, concentrated sulfuric acid (H2SO4), from biomass containing high cellulose (filter paper (FP), bamboo waste, and empty fruit bunches (EFB)) shows very high surface area and better thermal behavior. …”
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Power-line Interference Elimination from ECG Signals Using Notch Filtration: A Quasi-real Time Version by Todor Stoyanov, Ivan Dotsinsky, Georgy Mihov

“…Generally, the traditional notch filters (NF) affect ECG frequency components around the rated PLI frequency. …”
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Multiparametric Ultrasound (mpUS) of a Rare Testicular Capillary Hemangioma by Paul Spiesecke, Thomas Fischer, Carsten Stephan, Andreas Maxeiner, Bernd Hamm, Markus Lerchbaumer

“…We demonstrate the case of an 18-year-old patient with palpatoric and sonographic conspicuous left testicle and negative serum tumor markers (α-fetoprotein, β-human chorionic gonadotropin, and lactate dehydrogenase). …”
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First fluctuation measurements using an Imaging Neutral Particle Analyzer on DIII-D by K.R. Gage, X.D. Du, W.W. Heidbrink, J. Gonzalez-Martin, D. Liu, A.C. Brown

“…Analysis shows that the signals originate from charge exchange events near the edge of the plasma, and relative fluctuation amplitudes are greater than 25% for the duration of the NTM. Filtered signals show frequency beating patterns that are phase-space dependent. …”
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Adaptation and uptake evaluation of an SMS text message smoking cessation programme (MiQuit) for use in antenatal care by Felix Naughton, Stephen Sutton, Tim Coleman, Sue Cooper, Jo Leonardi-Bee, Katharine Bowker, Katarzyna Campbell, Melanie Sloan

“…Objectives To adapt a tailored short message service (SMS) text message smoking cessation intervention (MiQuit) for use without active health professional endorsement in routine antenatal care settings, to estimate ‘real-world’ uptake and test the feasibility of its use.Design Single-site service evaluation.Setting A Nottinghamshire (UK) antenatal clinic.Participants Pregnant women accessing the antenatal clinic (N=1750) over 6 months.Intervention A single-sheet A5 leaflet provided in the women's maternity notes folder describing the MiQuit text service. Similar materials were left on clinic desks and noticeboards.Outcome measures MiQuit activation requests and system interactions were logged for two time frames: 6 months (strict) and 8 months (extended). …”
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Comparative Study of Vitamin C Concentration in Boiled and Roasted Gonja. by Birungi, Alido

“…Fruits in the third group were peeled and then left raw (control experiment) 1 00g of prepared Gonja fingers from each group were then chopped using a sharp knife after which they were ground in separate motors using pestles to form pastes. 500ml of distilled water was added to each of the pasted Gonja followed by stirring and filtering. …”
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Auditory attention decoding based on neural-network for binaural beamforming applications by Roy Gueta, Elana Zion-Golumbic, Jacob Goldberger, Sharon Gannot

“…For that, the binaural linearly constrained minimum variance (BLCMV) beamformer generates two outputs that satisfy the standard LCMV criterion while preserving the binaural cues between the left-ear and right-ear outputs. Identifying the attended speaker from the separated speakers and distinguishing it from the unattended speaker poses a fundamental challenge in the beamformer design. …”
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Contrasting seasonal patterns in particle aggregation and dissolved organic matter transformation in a sub-Arctic fjord by M. G. Digernes, Y. V. Bodur, M. Amargant-Arumí, O. Müller, J. A. Hawkes, S. G. Kohler, U. Dietrich, M. Reigstad, M. L. Paulsen

“…For the experiments, surface water (5 m) was either pre-filtered through a GF/F filter (0.7 <span class="inline-formula">µ</span>m) or left unfiltered, followed by 36 h incubations. …”
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Clinical and molecular analyses of isolated central congenital hypothyroidism based on a survey conducted in Japan by Nao Shibata, Chikahiko Numakura, Takashi Hamajima, Kenichi Miyako, Ikuma Fujiwara, Jun Mori, Akihiko Saitoh, Keisuke Nagasaki

“…Unlike primary CH, central CH cannot be detected by newborn screening (NBS) using dry filter paper blood TSH levels, and early diagnosis remains challenging. …”
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Brain network alterations in anorexia Nervosa: A Multi-Center structural connectivity study by Jun Kanzawa, Ryo Kurokawa, Tsunehiko Takamura, Nobuhiro Nohara, Kouhei Kamiya, Yoshiya Moriguchi, Yasuhiro Sato, Yumi Hamamoto, Tomotaka Shoji, Tomohiko Muratsubaki, Motoaki Sugiura, Shin Fukudo, Yoshiyuki Hirano, Yusuke Sudo, Rio Kamashita, Sayo Hamatani, Noriko Numata, Koji Matsumoto, Eiji Shimizu, Naoki Kodama, Shingo Kakeda, Masatoshi Takahashi, Satoru Ide, Kazumasa Okada, Shu Takakura, Motoharu Gondo, Kazufumi Yoshihara, Masanori Isobe, Keima Tose, Tomomi Noda, Ryo Mishima, Michiko Kawabata, Shun’ichi Noma, Toshiya Murai, Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Osamu Abe

“…This research employed advanced diffusion MRI techniques including single-shell 3-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution, anatomically constrained tractography, and spherical deconvolution informed filtering of tractograms to analyze brain network alterations in AN. …”
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Addressing Shortcomings in Contingency Standards of Care by Alexander Quan

“…Health issues that are soon-to-be emergencies are filtered out until they worsen, resulting in patients overflowing to urgent care clinics or presenting to ERs with more severe forms of sicknesses later on. …”
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