UNLABELLED Anti-resorptive and anabolic agents are often prescribed for the treatment of osteoporosis continuously or sequentially for many years. However their impact on cortical bone quality and bone strength is not clear. METHODS Six-month old female rats were either sham operated or ovariectomized (OVX). OVX rats were left untreated for two months and then were treated with vehicle (Veh),...

In this paper, we propose a moving object extraction technique for MPEG coded data directly. It is a changebased motion object extraction approach, which discriminates background and moving objects by means of the higher-order statistics (HOS) performed on the interframe differences of DC image. The DC image is partly decoded picture from the compressed video for the rapid reconstruction of ima...

We consider left-invariant diffusion processes on DTI data by embedding the data into the space R o S of 3D positions and orientations. We then define and solve the diffusion equation in a moving frame of reference defined using left-invariant derivatives. The diffusion process is made adaptive to the data in order to do Perona-Malik-like edge preserving smoothing, which is necessary to handle ...

The entrance of Cd (II) to aqueous environments causes a major problem to human health. The current article examines the efficiency of TiO2 and γ-Al2O3 nanoparticles in Cd (II) removal from aqueous medium as influenced by different chemical factors, such as pH, initial concentration, background electrolyte, and ionic strength, in accordance with standard experimental methods. It conducts Batch ...

The uniformly minimum variance unbiased (UMVU), maximum likelihood, percentile (PC), least squares (LS) and weighted least squares (WLS) estimators of the probability density function (pdf) and cumulative distribution function are derived for the generalized Rayleigh distribution. This model can be used quite effectively in modelling strength data and also modeling general lifetime data. It has...