Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC), also referred to as virtual colonoscopy is a new diagnostic technique that uses special software to simulate conventional endoscopy. CTC uses data from Computed Tomography (CT) to generate two- and fly-through endoluminal three-dimensional images of the colon and rectum. CTC is an alternative to colonoscopy f

Mammography offers the best chance of detecting early breast cancer. Subsidised mammography programmes are available in our country in the absence of national level population screening. The IIUM Breast Centre is an accredited mammogram provider under the College of Radiology Subsidised Mammography Programme (CMP) from 2004. Screening for breast ca

The automated auditory brainstem response (AABR) is one of the successful screening tools used in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) but often hindered by unacceptably long test times. This present study has developed and used a new non linear Maximum Length Sequence (MLS) reconstruction algorithm which aims to account for the non linearity

The suitability of solid phase toxin tracking (SPATT) for the detection of dissolved ciguatoxins (CTXs) and maitotoxins (MTXs) was evaluated under in vitro conditions for its possible application to toxin evaluation in Gambierdiscus spp. cultures and in the field. Pacific type 1 CTX (CTX1B) and MTX standards tracked by the DIAON1 HP20 resin were ev

The bulk of the Earth's biosphere is cold (e.g. 90% of the ocean's waters are ≤ 5°C), sustaining a broad diversity of microbial life. The permanently cold environments vary from the deep ocean to alpine reaches and to polar regions. Commensurate with the extent and diversity of the ecosystems that harbour psychrophilic life, the function

قامت غالبية جهود تعليم اللغة العربية للناطقين بغيرها على مقررات تهتم بالأساس على الكم المعلوماتي والمعرفي من خلال نصوص صعبة مستقاة من كتب فقه اللغة وأصولها، تركز هذه النصوص في مجملها على بيان

Enabling computer systems to recognize facial expressions and infer emotions from them in real time presents a challenging research topic. In this paper, a real-time method is proposed as a solution to the problem of facial expression classification in video sequences. We employ an automatic facial feature tracker to perform face localization and f

Recycled polypropylene/microcrystalline cellulose (rPP/MCC) composites were prepared by adding different loadings of maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (MAPP) coupling agent. The tensile, impact and morphological properties of the composites were investigated. The obtained results show that the tensile and impact strengths of the composites wer

The administration of intrapleural streptokinase (IPSK) is widely practiced in the management of loculated empyema thoracis. To our knowledge, there have been only 4 cases of hemorrhagic complications attributed to the administration of IPSK reported in the literature. In this article, we report a case of a 17-year-old girl who received IPSK and de

The purpose of this note is to give Opial type inequalities with nonlocal conditions. Also, a reverse of the original inequality with y(a) = y(b) = 0 is derived. We apply these inequalities to second-order di�erential equations with nonlocal conditions to derive several necessary conditions for the existence of solutions.KYUNGPOOK Math. J. 51(201