This paper proposes a palmprint based verification system using low-order Zernike moments of palmprint sub-images. The Zernike moments of corresponding sub-images of live and enrolled palmprint are matched using Euclidean distance for verification. An efficient weighted fusion technique to fuse matching scores of the sub-images is proposed. The palmprint is extracted from the hand image acquire...

Aggressive chemotherapy/radiotherapy and bone marrow transplantation can cure >90% of girls and young women affected by disorders requiring such treatment. However, the ovaries are very sensitive to cytotoxic drugs, especially to alkylating agents. Several options are currently available to preserve fertility in cancer patients. The present review reports the results of 60 orthotopic reimplanta...

Traditional telephone conferencing has been accomplished by way of a centralized conference bridge. The tandem arrangement of high compression speech codecs in conventional VoIP conference bridges lead to speech distortions and require a substantial number of computations. Decentralized architectures avoid the speech degradations and delay, but lack strong control and depend on silence suppress...

140 For those of us who’ve been told that we’ve got a bit of a heart problem, don’t think it’s the end of the world. Don’t think it’s the end of the world – it’s not the end of the world. So, you’ve got a heart problem – so what! You live with it, and try and cope with the situation. But don’t make yourself any worse by saying ‘oh dear, I’ve got a crook heart, I can’t get out there and mow the ...

The primary purpose of this narrative is to elucidate the numerous significant changes that occur at the intensive care unit (ICU) level as a medical center pursues becoming a Level I trauma center. Specifically, we will focus on the following important areas: (1) leadership and strategy issues behind the decision to move forward with becoming a trauma center; (2) preparation needed to take a h...

This work describes improved methods and algorithms for implementing extended depth of field (EDF) microscopy through point spread function (PSF) engineering. It utilizes adaptive optics to create a test bed on which to evaluate new phase shapes for EDF. Being able to quickly and cheaply design novel PSFs is essential to overcome limitations of EDF that have prevented the technology from reachi...

Enteric capsule drug delivery technology (ECDDT) was developed to provide oral delivery with full enteric protection and rapid release in the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract without the use of coatings. ECDDT’s intrinsically enteric properties are attained by incorporating pharmaceutically approved enteric polymers in the capsule shell using conventional pin-dipping capsule manufacturing proc...

The effects of earlier surgery and shorter bedrest on the outcome in 338 consecutive patients with subarachnoid haemorrhage admitted within five years to a primary emergency hospital were evaluated. Mortality from rebleeds diminished more than surgical mortality increased. Shortened bedrest did not increase the number of rebleeds in patients not operated on. The combined mortality from rebleed ...