Development in the field of image processing for reducing speckle noise from digital images/satellite images is a challenging task for image processing applications. Previously many algorithms were proposed to de-speckle the noise in digital images. Here in this article we are presenting experimental results on de-speckling of Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) images. SAR images have wide applicat...

The utilities of AIRSAR data for oil palm biomass inventory and mapping are investigated. The study is on oil palm plantations in Tapah, Malaysia. The work focuses on two main applications. First, retrieval of oil palm biomass by establishing empirical relationships between backscatter coefficient and conventional estimation of biomass based on model as well as ground data. Second, mapping oil ...

In this paper, Generalised Gaussian PDFs are tailored to wavelet detail coefficients of both reflectivity and speckled intensity images. A MAP solution is derived from statistics calculated in the image domain by exploiting the fact that undecimated wavelet coefficients are given by convolving the image with a linear shift-invariant equivalent filter. Extensive experiments and comparisons demon...

A new species of treefrog of the Boophis rappiodes group (Anura, Mantellidae) is described from the Sahamalaza - Iles Radama National Park in northwest Madagascar. This new species is green in colour with bright red speckling across its head and dorsum; similar in morphology to other species of this group including: B. bottae, B. rappiodes, B. erythrodactylus and B. tasymena. The new species ca...

Bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) grown in Florida has traditionally been field-grown and harvested at a mature-green stage. However, the demand for highquality colored pepper has led producers to look at pepper grown under protected structures. Thirty-six colored pepper cultivars (red, orange, yellow, chocolate, and purple) from both Israeli and Dutch seed companies were compared during the Fal...

BACKGROUND Late stent malapposition has been reported to be an abnormal finding after vascular brachytherapy and, possibly, implantation of drug-eluting stents. It can only be detected if intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is performed at follow-up. However, the "background" frequency of late stent malapposition after bare-metal stent implantation is not known. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 206...

Abstract Haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients are at increased risk of malignancies, including cancers the oral cavity, with a reported observed-to-expected ratio 10.7, accounting for 14% all solid tumours following HSCT. We report 10 cases squamous carcinoma (SCC; 2016–2022) in HSCT from single tertiary centre [nine men and one woman; median age diagnosis 52 years (range 27–66...

Abstract Background Currently, few baseline imaging biomarkers can predict chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity (CTx). The early identification of CTx is critically important as it determines the prospect LV function recovery (1). Purpose We aimed to determine if left atrial (LA) reservoir strain (LAS) predictive CTx. Methods performed retrospective analysis SUCCOUR study, an international multi...

John Langdon Down (1866) first described the clinical entity of Down Syndrome (DS) at mid-nineteenth century and one century later, the DS primary cause due to trisomy 21 was reported (Lejeune et al., 1959). Until now, the etiology of Down syndrome remains unknown. DS is predominantly due to non-disjunction of chromosome 21; while translocation of an extra copy of the same chromosome accounted ...

Almost all plants are under attack by several types of enemies like herbivorous arthropods and plant pathogens. The purpose of this manuscript is to present a comprehensive outline of the pathogens that cause diseases of the various plants and are transmitted by mites. Mites are arachnids related to ticks and spiders, however, differ from insects, and are capable of infesting many orchards, tre...