Reverse osmosis membrane technology has developed over the past 40 years to a 44%
share in world desalting production capacity, and an 80% share in the total number of …

… The climate has also a great influence on leachate production because it affects the input
of precipitation (P) and losses through evaporation (EV). Finally, leachates production …

Increasing attention has been paid over the years to the environmental problems related to
industrial activities. Environmental standards have been established and control organisms …

Autosomal dominant hypercholesterolemia (ADH; OMIM144400), a risk factor for coronary
heart disease, is characterized by an increase in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels …

We introduce a simple spatially adaptive statistical model for wavelet image coefficients and
apply it to image denoising. Our model is inspired by a recent wavelet image compression …

Recent advances in human genetics, together with a large body of epidemiologic, preclinical,
and clinical trial results, provide strong support for a causal association between …

… The work of P. Moulin was supported by NSF under Grants CDA-9624396, MIP9707633, …
Achievability is proved using a random bin coding technique [31, p. 410]. The decoder uses …

Adherence to lifestyle recommendations for prevention of cardiovascular disease remains a
critical issue. We examined the association of anxiety and depression with healthy …

The proliferation of digital images creates problems for managing large image databases,
indexing individual images, and protecting intellectual property. This paper introduces a novel …

… Conversely, fast decay of the tail of the prior (such as in Gaussian distributions) tends to be a
major source of nonrobustness [2, p. 197]. A … The universal hard threshold is p 2 ln N 24:98. …