BACKGROUND There is growing evidence of improved healing of full- and partial-thickness cutaneous wounds in wet and moist environments. Retention of biologic fluids over the wound prevents desiccation of denuded dermis or deeper tissues and allows faster and unimpeded migration of keratinocytes over the wound surface. It allows also the naturally occurring cytokines and growth factors to exert ...

soil water potential was determined for three soil samples (i.e. 0-30, 30-60 and 60-90 cm depth) by the filter paper method (hamblin, 1981) and also for four non-destructive soil samples (i.e. 0-30, 30-50, 50-75 and 75-90 cm horizon) using pressure plate method.  in filter paper method, the filter paper is placed in hydraulic contact with the soil until an equilibrium state is attained in which...

periodic noises are unwished and spurious signals that create repetitive pattern on images and decreased the visual quality. firstly, this paper investigates various methods for reducing the effects of the periodic noise in digital images. then an adaptive optimum notch filter is proposed. in the proposed method, the regions of noise frequencies are determined by analyzing the spectral of noisy...

In this paper the design of a family of digit-serial 8th-order FIR filters with programmable coefficients is presented. Both input data and coefficient size are 8 bits, but every filter of the family allows the computation with full precision of the intermediate data. The output data is truncated to 8 bits. The design of both, the digit-serial multiple precision multiply-and-accumulate and the ...

Certain important industrial fermentations require substantial amounts of sterile air that are commonly obtained by filtration through beds of fibers, granular solids, or specially prepared filter media (Gaden and Humphrey, 1956). To control the efficiency of such sterilization filters, several methods to estimate the microorganism content of the air have been proposed. These methods can be cla...

Recently, a filter structure for narrow-band filtering based on lattice wave digital filters was introduced. The structure has increased parallelism over the corresponding direct realization. In this paper, hardware implementation of the filter structure is discussed. The suggested approach uses bit-serial processing elements that are scheduled so that a maximally fast implementation is achieve...