this study was conducted to investigate the effects of garlic powder (gp) black seed (bs) and plant premix (gp and bs) in the diet on broiler growth performance and intestinal morphology. included 480 hubbard broiler chicks(day-old). there were 4 treatment groups each consisting of 3 replicates. the four dietary treatments consisted of a control (basal diet), basal diet +0.5% gp, basal diet +0....

An iris identification algorithm is proposed based on adaptive thresholding. The iris images are processed fully in the spatial domain using the distinct features (patterns) of the iris. A simple adaptive thresholding method is used to segment these patterns from the rest of an iris image. This method could possibly be utilized for partial iris recognition since it relaxes the requirement of us...

In this contribution, the vulnerabilities of iris-based recognition systems to direct attacks are studied. A database of fake iris images has been created from real iris of the BioSec baseline database. Iris images are printed using a commercial printer and then, presented at the iris sensor. We use for our experiments a publicly available iris recognition system, which some modifications to im...

An approximate formula is proposed for the equivalent susceptance of a circular iris in a parallel plate waveguide when the TEM mode cylindrical wave is incident from the center of the iris. Schwinger’s variational method for a linear iris is generalized to the cylindrical case, and an approximate closed form formula is obtained which recovers the result of the linear iris when the radius of th...

The action of epidermal growth factor on the human duodenal mucosa has been studied by estimating the crypt cell production rate in cultured explants, using a stathmokinetic technique with crypt microdissection. The addition of epidermal growth factor (400 ng/ml) to paired explants from five patients caused an almost fivefold increase in the crypt cell production rate, showing that epidermal gr...

Humans have distinctive and unique traits which can be used to distinguish them from other humans, acting as a form of identification. A number of traits characterising physiological or behavioral characteristics of human can be used for biometric identification. Basic physiological characteristics are face, facial thermograms, fingerprint, iris, retina, hand geometry, odour/scent. Voice, signa...

Iris recognition is the mean of biometric identification using very large amount of iris database taken without contact to the human body. Basically three main methods are available to process iris data, out of which in this paper, an iris image synthesis method based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent component analysis (ICA) and Daugman’s rubber sheet model& hybrid model is pr...

Iris nevus is common: 6% of patients with suspected iris melanoma have lesions other than melanoma, and 36% of them are nevi. Iris nevus turns into melanoma in approximately 8% of cases at a mean of 15 years. This case report provides the first description of an iris tumor examined with iris optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) compared to iris fluorescein angiography (IFA). A 60-yea...

BACKGROUND Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) reflects an aberrant immune response that can develop in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART). Its pathogenesis remains unclear. METHODS We performed a nested case-control study using specimens from ACTG A5164. We compared plasma biomarkers and T-cell subsets in 19 IRIS and 39 contr...