Serial plasmaphereses were performed on a 23-year-old haemophiliac, with antibodies to factor VIII (FVIII), in order to reduce the antibody level before multiple dental extractions. Eight phereses were carried out in which approximately 1.5 litres plasma was exchanged with isotonic saline. By the ninth exchange, which was carried out immediately before the extraction, the antibody level had fal...

In this paper, a sensing framework suited to intelligent vehicles design for automotive safety is presented. The extraction of the intrinsic parameters of the vehicle collected through the Controller Area Network serial bus (CANbus) is discussed and the implementation of a user interface for data visualization is shown. Algorithms for road lanes detection, vehicles detection and tracking and fa...

Digital sync signal processing for asynchronously digitized video signals is presented. A simplified matched filter for sync extraction and a linear prediction method for sync pulse filtering improves image stability significantly in comparison with a conventional phase-locked-loop (PLL) approach. Due to the linear prediction method, additional adaption to phase skips in the input signal (non-s...

A rate-limiting step in determining a connectome, the set of all synaptic connections in a nervous system, is extraction of the relevant information from serial electron micrographs. Here we introduce a software application, Elegance, that speeds acquisition of the minimal dataset necessary, allowing the discovery of new connectomes. We have used Elegance to obtain new connectivity data in the ...

This paper describes algorithms for efficiently computing inventory estimates from satellite based images. The algorithms incorporate a one dimensional feature extraction which optimizes the pairwise sum of Fisher distances. Biases are eliminated with a premultiplication by the inverse of the analytically derived error matrix. The technique is demonstrated with a numerical example using statist...

We propose hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanowires as a platform for nonlinear optics in the telecommunication wavelength range. Extraction of the nonlinear parameter of these photonic nanowires reveals a figure of merit larger than 2. It is observed that the nonlinear optical properties of these waveguides degrade with time, but that this degradation can be reversed by annealing the samples. ...

This study examined the functional organisation of the computational processes underlying orientation-dependent and orientation-invariant two-dimensional object recognition. Participants identified two previously memorised novel shapes at different image plane orientations while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. A centro-parietal ERP component was found that peaked between 350 and ...

We report the case of a 37 years-old nulliparous woman who developed HELLP (Hemolysis Elevated Liver Enzymes Low Platelets) syndrome with intense upper abdominal pain during the 27th week of pregnancy. A subcapsular right liver lobe haematoma and a large peritoneal effusion were identified on ultrasound. Fetal extraction was carried out by caesarean section, during which liver exploration revea...