Investigation of the contribution of bioaerosol loading to indoor PM pollution on university campus in Singapore by Lee, Brandon Jia Hao

“…The study found that median fungi concentration was higher than bacteria concentration with a high prevalence of both bacteria and fungi concentration in fine particles smaller than 1.1um. …”
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GRAViTy-V2: a grounded viral taxonomy application by Mayne, R, Aiewsakun, P, Turner, D, Adriaenssens, E, Simmonds, P

“…Analysis times ranged from 1-506 min (median 3.59) on datasets with 17-1004 genomes and mean genome length of 3000–1 000 000 bases.…”

Image processing algorithms for medical applications by Ling, Regina Ming Zhen

“…In this paper, noise removal will be done using these four filters (i.e. Gaussian, Mean, Median and Wiener filter). The performance evaluation parameters used to measure the effectiveness of each filter are Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), Mean Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). …”
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The impossibility of a moral right to privacy by Persson, I, Savulescu, J

“…Information acquisition itself is distinguished from the means used to acquire it and the uses to which the information is put. …”

Simple and flexible vision-based hand gesture recognition system by Lee, Chun Kiat.

“…This paper proposes a simple yet flexible Hand Gesture Recognition System-Codebook (HGRS-Codebook) using the techniques of codebook background subtraction, skin color segmentation, median filtering, contour detection, convexity defects and definition of peaks and valleys of fingertips. …”
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Noise detection and removal for highly degraded images by Guo, Huan.

“…The toolbox covered three filtering type: Median, Averaging and Adaptive Filtering.…”
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Electricity load forecasting for smart home by Lin, James Rizhong

“…The results obtained were favourable, as it is apparent that the Prophet model had managed to capture the cyclic behaviour of the time series. The mean, median and seasonal Naïve models achieved a Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of 33.493%, 32.995% and 29.492% respectively. …”
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International web-based survey of patients with non-hydrocephalic symptomatic pineal cysts by Harding, J, Masina, R, Hill, A, Ansanipour, A, Steele, A, Kolias, A, Santarius, T

“…Results: 543 participants (mean age 38.6 years, range 1–83) were included in the analysis, of which 82 (mean age 38.9 years, range 16–72) had undergone cyst resection. …”

Quantifying the average and the likelihood of increases in space weather indices and in situ measurements during Solar Cycles 20–23 by Lohmeyer, Whitney Q., Pang, Anthony, Cahoy, Kerry, Shprits, Yuri

“…We define increased activity as activity greater than two median absolute deviations (MADs) above the average activity for each phase. …”
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Autonomous UAV Navigation using Millimeter Wave Radar by Herrera, Joshua I.

“…Our system successfully achieved 7.9cm overall median error and had a 90th percentile error of less than 21cm.…”
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Promoting Islamic Social Finance: Experience From Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia by Zainol, Zairy, Abd. Wahab, Norazlina, Md. Tahir, Raziah, Osman, Amirul Faiz, Abdul Majid, Nurul Huda, Hanafi, Norshafizah

“…The data were tabulated and used descriptive analysis (frequency, mean, median, minimum and maximum), cross-tabulation and statistical test. …”
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Telemetry Fault-Detection Algorithms: Applications for Spacecraft Monitoring and Space Environment Sensing by Carlton, Ashley, Morgan, Rachel, Lohmeyer, Whitney, Cahoy, Kerri

“…Transient event detection and change-point event detection techniques that use a sliding window-based median are used, statistically evaluating the telemetry stream compared to the local norm. …”
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Strategic styles of hardware product development could accelerate commercialization in cleantech startups by Looney, Erin, Buscariolli, André, Yang, Maria C, Raymond, Geoffrey, Buonassisi, Tonio, Peters, Ian Marius

“…We interviewed 55 leaders at hardware startups, 20 of which are cleantech, mapped their development timelines, and found prototyping to be the longest development step (median of 19 weeks per prototype) regardless of prototype complexity or iteration. …”
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Secure Sorting and Selection via Function Secret Sharing by Agarwal, Amit, Boyle, Elette, Chandran, Nishanth, Gilboa, Niv, Gupta, Divya, Ishai, Yuval, Kelkar, Mahimna, Ma, Yiping

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Scour below a non-full flowing rectangular culvert outlet by Tan, Bei'er.

“…Five sets of experiments with uniform sediment bed particles of median size, d50 1.63 mm and standard deviation, σg of 1.19 but varying tailwater depth levels and flow rates were conducted for 48 hours so that the scour hole formation to reach its equilibrium stage. …”
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OncomiR-138 targets genes involved in senescence and its inhibition induces growth arrest of malignant gliomas. by Malini Rethnam.

“…Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive types of brain cancer with a median lifespan of 12 months. Recent studies have reported elevated expression of miR-138 in Glioma Stem cells (GSCs) and demonstrated that knocking miR-138 down prevented tumor progression, though the exact downstream mechanism was unknown. …”
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Heart sound analysis by Xu, Ran

“…In addition, according to the median differences for one parameter between two classes as well as their overlap areas, the parameters after PCA were reordered as a purpose to determine the best performed feature for classification. …”
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Oxford/IIIT TRECVID 2008 – notebook paper by Philbin, J, Marin-Jimenez, M, Srinivasan, S, Zisserman, A, Jain, M, Vempati, S, Sankar, P, Jawahar, CV

“…Our best performing submission, C_OXVGG_1_1, which used a rank fusion of our random forest and SVM approach, achieved an mAP of 0.101 and was above the median for all but one feature. <br>In the interactive search task, our team came third overall with an mAP of 0.158. …”

Investigation of image processing algoriths for medical applications by Aung, Htet Myet Chel

“…In this report, 4 different types of filters which are Median filter, Gaussian smoothing, Wiener filter and Wavelet filter are applied to remove noises from 3 types of medical images (FMRI, X-Ray and Cancer images. …”
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Relative deficiency in interferon-γ-secreting CD4+ T cells is strongly associated with poorer COVID-19 vaccination responses in older adults by Ho, Vanda W. T., Boon, Low Heng, Cui, Jianzhou, Juequn, Zhou, Shunmuganathan, Bhuvaneshwari, Gupta, Rashi, Tan, Nikki Y. J., Qian, Xinlei, Purushotorman, Kiren, Fong, Siew-Wai, Renia, Laurent, Ng, Lisa F. P., Angeli, Veronique, Chen, Jinmiao, Kennedy, Brian K., Ong, Catherine W. M., Macary, Paul A.

“…A prospective 3-month study was conducted on 15 young (median age 31 years, interquartile range (IQR) 25-35 years) and 14 older adults (median age 72 years, IQR 70-73 years). …”
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