The performance of Hilbert spectrum (HS) in time-frequency representation (TFR) of audio signals is investigated in this paper. HS offers a fine-resolution TFR of time domain signals. It is derived by applying empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a newly developed data adaptive method for nonlinear and non-stationary signal analysis together with Hilbert transform. EMD represents any time domain...

The content of this paper is the proposal of two techniques for the modeling of skin color in images using a combination of spaces of colors HSV with YCbCr and HSV with CIELab. To determine the intervals of pixels nonskin color uses the components H and S, on the other hand, the intervals of pixels skin color uses the components Cb, Cr, a and b. There are compared the results of the technique H...

Introduction Herniation of the nucleus pulposus (NP) because of defects in the annulus fibrosus (AF) is a well-known cause of low back pain. Defects in the AF thus remain a surgical challenge, and efforts have been made to develop new techniques for closure and repair. In this study, we developed an electrospun aligned nanoyarn scaffold (AYS) and nanoyarn/three-dimensional porous nanofibrous hy...

Previous studies have suggested that the attachment of bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) to permissive cells is mediated by its major glycoproteins B (gB), C (gC), and D (gD). In order to gain further insight into the mechanism of the BHV-1 attachment process, we purified authentic gB, gC, and gD from BHV-1-infected cells and membrane anchor-truncated, soluble gB, gC, and gD from stably transfected ...

We construct two examples of a compact, 0-dimensional space which supports a Radon probability measure whose measure algebra is isomor-phic to the measure algebra of 2 ! 1. The rst construction uses } to produce an S-space with no convergent sequences in which every perfect set is a G. A space with these properties must be both hereditarily normal and hereditarily countably paracompact. The sec...

Oxidation and reduction kinetics of iron (Fe) and proportion of steady-state Fe(II) concentration relative to total dissolved Fe (steady-state Fe(II) fraction) were investigated in the presence of various types of standard humic substances (HS) with particular emphasis on the photochemical and thermal reduction of Fe(III) and oxidation of Fe(II) by dissolved oxygen (O2) and hydrogen peroxide (H...

Volatile components from Exocarpium Citri Grandis (ECG) were, respectively, extracted by three methods, that is, steam distillation (SD), headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME), and solvent extraction (SE). A total of 81 compounds were identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry including 77 (SD), 56 (HS-SPME), and 48 (SE) compounds, respectively. Despite of the extraction metho...

We will prove the following theorem on Walsh series, and we will derive from this theorem an effective and constructive method for the numerical integration of Walsh series by number-theoretic methods. Further, concrete computer calculations are given. Theorem. For base b > 2, dimension s > 1, and o > 1, c > 0 {b, s € N; c, a e R), let i,E~°(c) be the class of all functions f: [0, l)s -» C whic...

The polyphase-with-advance matrix representations of whole-sample symmetric (WS) unimodular filter banks form a multiplicative matrix Laurent polynomial group. Elements of this group can always be factored into lifting matrices with half-sample symmetric (HS) off-diagonal lifting filters; such linear phase lifting factorizations are specified in the ISO/IEC JPEG 2000 image coding standard. Half...

The -globin locus control region (LCR) is a large DNA element that is required for high-level expression of -like globin genes from the endogenous mouse locus or in transgenic mice carrying the human -globin locus. The LCR encompasses 6 DNaseI hypersensitive sites (HSs) that bind transcription factors. These HSs each contain a core of a few hundred base pairs (bp) that has most of the functiona...