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NOTICE: Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Options, Inc., provide these Clinical Review Criteria for internal use by their members and health care providers. The Clinical Review Criteria only apply to Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington Options, Inc. Use of the Clinical Review Criter...

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In order to removes the ring effect in traditional image denoising algorithms using wavelet thresholding, the paper analyzes the wavelet coefficients of noise images, uses second-order central moment of HH1 sub-bands as the noise variance and computes threshold values; and then performs wavelet thresholding denoising on each image block. At last, the paper weights these denoised wavelet coeffic...

Henry J. Kaiser developed an extensive and complex industrial empire. During the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, he began an association with Sidney Garfield, MD, that resulted in the prototype of the modern health maintenance organization. Kaiser Permanente, directed by Garfield, survived a confrontation with organized medicine in the postwar years and then expanded rapidly...

wewanttofindthecosmologicalconstantinfluenceoncosmicmicrowavebackground(cmb)temperatureduetomovinglinearcosmicstrings.usingthespace-timemetricofalinearcosmicstringinanacceleratedexpandinguniverse,thegott-kaiser stebbins(gks)effect,asanimportantmechanisminproducingtemperaturediscontinuityinthe(cmb),isconsidered;then,itsmodificationduetotheeffectofthecosmologicalconstantiscalculated.theresultshowsthat...

The paper describes the mechanisms and conditions for damage-memory effect (Kaiser effect) in rocks subjected to a three-dimensional nonproportional cyclic loading with changes rocks' shape orientation of Lam-ellipsoid. experiments cubic samples taken from polymictic sandstone were conducted on Triaxial Independent Loading Testing System continuous recording an acoustic emission signals. result...

among HIV-positive and HIV-negative Individuals Diagnosed with Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Dharushana Muthulingam, MD, MS; Arnold Yee, MBA; Wendy Leyden, MPH; Michael Silverberg, PhD, MPH; Roger Baxter, MD; Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA; Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, Oakland, CA; Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente,...

Medical Director, EMS, Swedish Medical Center, Englewood, Colo. Correspondence: Stewart L. Greisman, DO, FACEP, Medical Director, EMS, Swedish Medical Center, 501 East Hampden Avenue, Englewood, CO 80150-0101 USA An unusual grouping of names highlights a puzzling dilemma for emergency medical services (EMS). Utstein is the name of an ancient abbey off the Norwegian coast, Henry Kaiser is the fa...