*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain 2Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article †Equal contributors Abstract A soft sensor for measuring product quality in the Bayer process has been developed. The sof...

A common workflow in digital photography involves viewing high resolution images on LCD displays either computer monitors or camera viewfinders. To minimise cost and complexity, most cameras use a single sensor overlaid with a Bayer filter to selectively sample various wavelengths at interleaved locations. Missing data must then be interpolated, which is known to introduce artefacts. In order t...

In this paper, we present a solution for the interpolation of low resolution digital images. Many digital cameras can function in two resolution modes: VGA (i.e., 640×480) and QVGA (i.e., 320×240). These cameras use a single sensor covered with a Color Filter Array (CFA). The CFA allows only one color component to be measured at each pixel, the remaining color components must be interpolated, t...

We describe a new dip- and read dipstick that detects urine albumin at concentrations of 10 mg/l and above and urine creatinine at concentrations of 300 mg/l and above. The albumin assay is based on a high-affinity, dye-binding technique while the creatinine assay is based on the peroxidase-like activity of copper creatinine complexes. With these two-test dipsticks, urines from normal adults su...

Objective: a fetus with a ring chromosome 20 is presented. Methods: at 16 weeks’ gestation, ultrasound examination evidenced no apparent structural malformation. Amniocentesis was performed for maternal anxiety. Results: chromosome analysis identified a ring chromosome 20 and array-CGH demonstrated that the ring including micro-deletion of the short arm in 20p13, that was extended for about 632...

Underand over-nutrition during pregnancy has been linked to the later development of diseases such as diabetes and obesity. Epigenetic modifications may be one mechanism by which exposure to an altered intrauterine milieu or metabolic perturbation may influence the phenotype of the organism much later in life. Epigenetic modifications of the genome provide a mechanism that allows the stable pro...