We address the problem of mitigating the visually displeasing effects of cradling in X-ray images of panel paintings.The proposed algorithm consists of three stages.In the first stage the location of the cradling is detected semi-automatically and the grayscale inconsistency, caused by the thickness of the cradling, is adjusted.In a second stage we
Background: Antibiotic resistance of Helicobacter pylori (H.pylori) treatment is on the rise, and is affecting the efficacy of current used therapeutic regimens.Aim: We aimed to enhance the understanding of antimicrobial resistance rates of H.pylori strains recovered from patients at Theodor Bilharz Research Institute Hospital in Egypt, as a mandat
Widespread extreme climate events cause many fatalities, economic losses and have a huge impact on critical infrastructure.It is therefore of utmost importance to estimate the frequency and associated consequences of spatially concurrent extremes.Impact studies of climate extremes are severely hampered by the lack of extreme observations, and even