Copper trimesate (Cu-BTC) MOF has been pointed out as a promising adsorbent for separating carbon dioxide from methane. However, MOF’s need to be shaped prior to their use in packed bed adsorbers in order to reduce pressure drop; on the other hand, the production of mechanically resistant shaped bodies reduces their adsorption performance. In this work, Cu-BTC tablets provided by BASF are evalu...

The paper presents improved content based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques based on multilevel Block truncation coding using multiple threshold values. Block truncation Coding based features is one of the CBIR methods proposed using color features of image. The approach basically considers red, green and blue planes of image together to compute feature vector. The color averaging methods used ...

The metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) MIL-100(Fe), Cu-BTC and CPO-27(Ni) were synthesised in 1 kg batches. The materials were then formed in two different industrially relevant ways. Firstly, dry granulation was used to produce pellets which were sieved to give material with a 300-1000 μm size, and the fines were subsequently recycled to mimic a large scale industrial process. Secondly, wet granu...

Serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) has been identified as biochemical marker for biliary tract cancer (BTC). The purpose of this study was to evaluate its value as a treatment response marker and its value as a prognostic parameter in patients with unresectable BTC. We analyzed 70 patients with BTC treated with chemotherapy. CA 19-9 levels before and after two treatment courses were anal...

We previously identified novel biomarker candidates in biliary tract cancer (BTC) using serum proteome analysis. Among several candidates, we focused on thrombin light chain which is a 4204 Da peptide as the most promising biomarker for BTC. To move thrombin light chain toward potential diagnostic use, we developed an enzyme immunoassay that enables to measure serum thrombin light chain levels....

In this paper a colour image data compression method using block truncation coding (BTC) and genetic Algorithm (GA) is presented. This compression technique reduces the computational complexity and provides acceptable visual quality reconstructed images. BTC acts as the basic compression technique but it exhibits two disadvantages such as the false contour and blocking effect. Hence error diffu...

INTRODUCTION The worldwide incidence of biliary tract carcinoma (BTC, tumours of the bile ducts and gall-bladder) continues to rise, with the only potentially curative treatment remaining surgical resection or transplantation, possible in only a minority of patients. Late presentation and a paucity of effective treatments mandate the development of techniques for early lesion detection. AREAS...

Reversible data hiding is an efficient way for embedding additional data into cover media, which can reversibly recover the original cover media when the additional data is extracted. It has been widely utilized in secure communication and copyright protection. A reversible data hiding scheme imposed on the quantized coefficients of compressed images based on block truncation coding (BTC) is pr...

Organic anion (OA) transport mediates accumulation of the zwitterionic nephrotoxic cysteine S-conjugates S-dichlorovinylcysteine (DCVC) and S-chlorotrifluoroethylcysteine (CTFC) in the rabbit renal proximal tubule (RPT). Although these cysteine conjugates are nephrotoxic to the human RPT, neither the role of OA transport nor the specific OA transport pathway(s) involved in cysteine conjugate ac...