The aim of this study was to compare the effects of formoterol, ipratropium bromide and a placebo on walking distance, lung function, symptoms and quality of life (QoL) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. A total of 183 patients (mean age 64 yrs, 86 female) with moderate-to-severe nonreversible COPD participated in this randomised, double-blind, parallel-group study. After...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are inherently degraded by multiplicative speckle noise where thresholdingbased methods in the transform domain are appropriate. Being sparse, the coefficients in the transformed domain play a key role in the performance of any thresholding methods. It has been shown that the coefficients of nonsubsampled shearlet transform (NSST) are sparser than those of ...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a satellite imaging technology. It produces high resolution images and can be used in varied atmospheric conditions. It can be used under all weather conditions. SAR images are generally affected with granular noise termed as speckle noise. Speckle degrades the spatial resolution, contrast of the image, decreases object detectability and causes inconvenience to...

Image fusion is to reduce uncertainty and minimize redundancy. It is a process of combining the relevant information from a set of images, into a single image, wherein the resultant fused image will be more informative and complete than any of the input images. Till date the image fusion techniques were like DWT or pixel based. These conventional techniques were not that efficient and they did ...

Feature extraction is a collection of the necessary detailed information from given source, which holds for further analysis. The quality fused image depends on many parameters, particularly its directional selectivity and shift-invariance. On other hand, traditional wavelet-based transforms produce ringing distortions artifacts due to poor directionality shift invariance. Dual-Tree Complex Wav...

BACKGROUND A continuously paced shuttle walk test (SWTp) was developed to test the hypothesis that speed and rhythm could be more optimally imposed by an easier-to-follow sound stimulus at every step. The objective of this study was to assess the reproducibility of the SWTp and to compare the performance of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the conventional and optim...

Bilingual lexicon extraction from comparable corpora is usually based on distributional methods when dealing with single word terms (SWT). These methods often treat SWT as single tokens without considering their compositional property. However, many SWT are compositional (composed of roots and affixes) and this information, if taken into account, can be very useful to match translational pairs,...

We identify the equivariant structure of filtered pieces motivic filtration defined by Bhatt, Morrow and Scholze on topological Hochschild cohomology spectrum polynomial algebras over Fp.