BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) has shown efficacy as primary and secondary therapy for nephrotic syndrome due to membranous nephropathy. The data on using ACTH to treat idiopathic FSGS are limited. This report describes our experience using ACTH for nephrotic syndrome due to idiopathic FSGS in the United States. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Twent...

The aim of the iCS system is to detect and record footages of possibly hazardous situations on a pedestrian crossing and/or conduct real-time traffic surveillance. Videos recorded by cameras could be used for enforcement purposes or as evidence in case of an accident. Information about the traffic could be used for statistic purposes and thus help to improve road infrastructure planning and tra...

Blind image deblurring algorithms have been improving steadily in the past years. Most state-of-the-art algorithms, however, still cannot perform perfectly in challenging cases, especially in large blur setting. In this paper, we focus on how to estimate a good blur kernel from a single blurred image based on the image structure. We found that image details caused by blur could adversely affect...

In many computationally-intensive tasks such as medical image reconstruction for which transputers can be used, the data communication rate between a display host such as a SUN-workstation and the transputer network becomes a constraint on system performance. Our goal is to maximise the SUN-transputer data exchange rate. Vy'e use several kinds of transputers connected to the VME-bus of the host...

We demonstrate the ability of the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics to provide convenient means and intuitive notions for exploring the process of transition from a quantum to a classical state known as decoherence. The Wigner equation, which is usually relevant for electron transport in nanostructures, augmented by the Boltzmann scattering operator is now applied to the time depende...