Best Frequency Domain Filter for Fetal Ultrasound Images

This paper tries to find out the most effective frequency domain filter used for enhancing Ultrasound images. A fetal ultrasound image has been taken and is filtered with different low and high pass filters at different cut off frequencies. The enhancement method is very simple because our aim is to find the most effective filter not a good enhancement technique. To assess the enhancement the metric MSE is used. The experiments are done on MATLAB

Effect of Frequency Domain Filters on Bio-Medical Images

This study tries to find out the most effective frequency domain filter used for enhancing biomedical images. Five different biomedical images have been taken and they are filtered with different low and high pass filters at different cut off frequencies. As far as enhancement method is concerned, the method is very simple because the motive here is to find the most effective filter not a good enhancement technique. To assess the enhancement the metric MSE is used. The experiments are done on MATLAB

The decomposition of nitrous oxide in the silent electric discharge, part IV. Influence of the addition of foreign gases

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Viscosity of reversible emulsions

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The decomposition of nitrous oxide in the silent electric discharge. The variation of the current and of the power during the reaction, part III

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Obesity-related inflammation & cardiovascular disease: Efficacy of a yoga-based lifestyle intervention

Obesity is a global health burden and its prevalence is increasing substantially due to changing lifestyle. Chronic adiposity is associated with metabolic imbalance leading to dyslipidaemia, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Adipose tissue acts as an endocrine organ releasing several adipocytokines, and is associated with increased levels of tissue and circulating inflammatory biomolecules causing vascular inflammation and atherogenesis. Further, inflammation is also associated independently with obesity as well as CVD. Keeping this in view, it is possible that a reduction in weight may lead to a decrease in inflammation, resulting in CVD risk reduction, and better management of patients with CVD. Lifestyle intervention has been endorsed by several health authorities in prevention and management of chronic diseases. A yoga-based lifestyle intervention appears to be a promising option in reducing the risk for CVD as well as management of patients with CVD as it is simple to follow and cost-effective with high compliance. The efficacy of such lifestyle intervention programmes is multifaceted, and is achieved via reduction in weight, obesity-related inflammation and stress, thereby culminating into risk reduction towards several chronic diseases including CVD. In this review, the association between obesity-related inflammation and CVD, and the role of yoga-based lifestyle intervention in prevention and management of CVD are discussed

Molecular characterization of <i>Pestalotiopsis</i> spp. associated with tea (<i>Camellia sinensis</i>) in southern India using RAPD and ISSR markers

377-383 The genus Pestalotiopsis is second most important fungal pathogen causing grey blight disease in tea plant (Camellia sinensis). Due to grey blight disease, total tea crop loss is estimated to be 17% in southern India. In the present study, 42 Pestalotiopsis isolates were collected from five different regions in southern India. Among them, 22 isolates showed diverse morphological characters like colour, size and length of conidia and virulence. Genetic diversity was studied for these 22 isolates using two molecular marker systems (RAPD and ISSR). In RAPD, a total of 255 loci were generated and all were polymorphic in nature and the band size ranged from 0.2 to 3.0 kb. In ISSR, 194 amplified loci were observed and all were polymorphic as like RAPD and the band size ranged from 0.25 to 3.2 kb. Using Jaccard’s similarity coefficient matrix, highest similarity of 95.9% and 92.6% was observed between AP-8 and AP-9 isolates in both RAPD and ISSR markers, respectively. Lowest similarity was observed between AP-14 and NP-5 (8.8%) in RAPD matrix but in ISSR matrix lowest similarity (18.5%) was between AP-14 and EN-5. The UPGMA clustering of both methods was comparable. The results indicate that, within southern India, the diversity of Pestalotiopsis was high both morphologically and genetically</smarttagtype