BACKGROUND Delayed cerebral thrombosis (DCT) is a devastating cerebrovascular complication in patients with excellent initial recovery of pneumococcal meningitis. The aetiology is unknown, but direct bacterial invasion, activation of coagulation or post-infectious immunoglobulin deposition has been suggested. METHODS We studied histopathology of 4 patients with pneumococcal meningitis complic...

China has proposed “ecological conservation and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin” to a major national strategy, which puts forward higher requirements for water, energy, food along (TYR). However, water–energy–food nexus (WEF) system in TYR basin is very complicated. Based on theory method harmonious regulation, this paper new WEF harmony framework (WEFH) study balance TYR. WE...

We examined the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity and antihypertensive effect of the hot water extract of wakame, Undaria pinnatifida. Ten dipeptides were isolated from the extract by several steps of chromatography, and their amino acid sequences were Tyr-His, Lys-Trp, Lys-Tyr, Lys-Phe, Phe-Tyr, Val-Trp, Val-Phe, Ile-Tyr, Ile-Trp, and Val-Tyr. Both single administration...

This paper presents a novel approach to compute DCT-I, DCT-III, and DCT-IV. By using a modular mapping and truncating, DCTs are approximated by linear sums of discrete moments computed fast only through additions. This enables us to use computational techniques developed for computing moments to compute DCTs efficiently. We demonstrate this by applying our earlier systolic solution to this prob...

The multiresolution wavelet transform is an effective procedure in texture analysis. However, many images are still compressed by the methods based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). Thus, decompression of the inverse DCT is required to yield the textural features based on the wavelet transform for the DCT-coded image. This investigation adopts the multiresolution reordered features in tex...

DCT-based digital video coding standards such as MPEG and H.26x have been widely adopted for multimedia applications. Thus video processing in the DCT domain usually proves to be more ef£cient than in the spatial domain. To directly convert an inter-coded frame into an intra-coded frame in the DCT domain, the problem of DCT domain inverse motion compensation was studied in [1]. Since the data i...

PURPOSE To compare the intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements obtained with the rebound tonometry (RT), dynamic contour tonometry (DCT) and Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) in keratoconic corneas and to investigate the effects of central corneal thickness (CCT) and corneal radius of curvature (CR) on IOP measurements. METHODS Sixty-three eyes of 63 keratoconus patients were enrolled in t...

The goal of this paper is to present a very simple approach to text dependent speaker identification using a combination of spectrograms and well known Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). This approach is based on use of DCT to find similarities between spectrograms obtained from speech samples. The set of spectrograms forms the database for our experiments rather than raw speech samples. Performa...

Recently, we proposed a new multiplierless 1D Int-DCT modified from our existing Int-DCT by approximating floating multiplications to bit-shift and addition operations. The multiplierless 1D Int-DCT can be well operated both lossless coding and lossy coding. However, our multiplierless 1D Int-DCT is not focused on how to assign word-length for floating-multiplier approximation as short as possi...