Noise is an intrinsic specificity of all forms of imaging, and can be found in various forms in all domains of digital imagery. This paper offers an overall review of digital image noise, from its causes and models to the degradations it suffers along the image acquisition pipeline. We show that by the end of the pipeline, the noise may have widely different characteristics compared to the raw ...

BACKGROUND From time immemorial, wild plants have been used for edible purposes. They still continue to be a major source of nutrition for tribal people. However, unfortunately, their use is now declining. This has implications in food security, narrowing genetic base, and future leads. The present study was, therefore, carried out in Chhota Bhangal region of Western Himalaya to analyze uses of...

There is laboratory evidence that refined carbohydrates are more cariogenic compared with unrefined carbohydrates. It was reported that sugarcane workers in South Africa, who consumed large quantities of raw sugarcane daily, had a low caries experience. However, other epidemiologic studies of this relationship, both in Africa and elsewhere, have given mixed results and to date the question conc...

monolithic method. – There is a trade-off relation between informativeness and robustness of analysis in each processing technique. • More informative  Less informative • Less robust More robust • We employ multiple complementary methods in order for our QA system to have a variety of informativeness and robustness. • Implementation: Raw score for an answer candidate AC in the i-th retrieve...

This 2009 ICSTI annual conference was essentially about ‘Data’ – the primary, often raw, quantified, initial outputs from research projects which are held in digital form in a variety of media formats and repositories throughout the world. In some cases the raw data is stored on disc in a researcher’s personal filing system never again to see the light of day. In other cases subject-based datas...

The treebanks that are used for training statistical parsers consist of hand-parsed sentences from a single source/domain like newspaper text. However, newspaper text concerns different subdomains of language use (e.g. finance, sports, politics, music), which implies that the statistics gathered by generative statistical parsers are averages over subdomain statistics. In this paper we explore a...

Cranberry juice is recognized for its nutraceutical properties. Recently, it was demonstrated that it is possible to enrich a cranberry juice in antioxidants from another cranberry juice by an electrodialysis with filtration membrane (EDFM) process. In order to transpose this technology on an industrial scale for the production of an antioxidant enriched cranberry juice, the present work aimed ...

This paper describes a method to construct a case frame dictionary automatically from a raw corpus. The main problem is how to handle the diversity of verb usages. We collect predicate-argument examples, which are distinguished by the verb and its closest case component in order to deal with verb usages, from parsed results of a corpus. Since these couples multiply to millions of combinations, ...

Background Biodiesel has emerged as a energy, environmental and social solution proposal. However, there are some technical challenges that need to be solved, for example, use of the by-product of biodiesel production, crude glycerol (CG). To avoid future problems caused by the accumulation of CG and simultaneously make biodiesel production more competitive, the search for the most viable alter...

Recent advances in segmentation methods for connectomics and biomedical imaging produce very large datasets with labels that assign object classes to image pixels. The resulting label volumes are bigger than the raw image data and need compression for efficient storage and transfer. General-purpose compression methods are less effective because the label data consists of large low-frequency reg...