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  1. Restoring Poissonian noise images have drawn a lot of attention in recent years. There are many regularization methods to solve this problem and one of the most famous methods is the total variation model. In ...

    Authors: Hou-biao Li, Jun-yan Wang and Hong-xia Dou
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1272
  2. This paper presents an iterative scheme for solving nonline ar equations. We establish a new rational approximation model with linear numerator and denominator which has generalizes the local linear model. We ...

    Authors: B. Saheya, Guo-qing Chen, Yun-kang Sui and Cai-ying Wu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1269
  3. With the support of cloud computing techniques, social coding platforms have changed the style of software development. Github is now the most popular social coding platform and project hosting service. Softwa...

    Authors: Yan Hu, Jun Zhang, Xiaomei Bai, Shuo Yu and Zhuo Yang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1268
  4. Government audit authorities supervise the implementation of government budgets and evaluate the use of administrative resources to ensure that funding is used wisely, economically, and effectively. A quality ...

    Authors: Shue-Ching Lee, Jau-Ming Su, Sang-Bing Tsai, Tzu-Li Lu and Weiwei Dong
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1263
  5. The polychaete Sabellaria alveolata (Linnaeus, 1767) is an important ecosystem engineer building reef structures which add to the topographic complexity in colonized areas. In Europe, the most extensive reef form...

    Authors: Erika Schlund, Olivier Basuyaux, Billie Lecornu, Jean-Philippe Pezy, Alexandrine Baffreau and Jean-Claude Dauvin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1260
  6. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammatory demyelination, gliosis and axonal loss in the Central Nervous System. Although the etiology of the disease has remained enigmatic,...

    Authors: Chie Sugimoto, Makoto Hirotani, Kazunori Yoshikiyo, Uichi Koshimizu, Rika Wakao, Takahiro Horinouchi, Yuichi Mazaki, Tsunehiko Higashi, Toshiyuki Fukazawa, Hiroyoshi Fujita, Hidenao Sasaki and Hiroshi Wakao
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1259
  7. Based on the harmonic balance method (HBM), an approximate solution is determined from the integral expression (i.e., first order differential equation) of some strongly nonlinear oscillators. Usually such an ...

    Authors: M. S. Alam, Md. Abdur Razzak, Md. Alal Hosen and Md. Riaz Parvez
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1258
  8. In this article, a novel integrated mixed-integer nonlinear programming model is presented for designing a cellular manufacturing system (CMS) considering machine layout and part scheduling problems simultane...

    Authors: Ahmad Ebrahimi, Reza Kia and Alireza Rashidi Komijan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1254
  9. Determination of activity concentrations in twenty five (25) soil samples collected from various points in bauxite ore deposit in Menoua Division in Western of Cameroon was done using gamma spectrometry based ...

    Authors: Eric Jilbert Mekongtso Nguelem, Maurice Moyo Ndontchueng and Ousmanou Motapon
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1253
  10. Chronic migraine (CM) is a neurological disorder associated with substantial disability. Botulinum toxin type A (Botox) is an approved and effective preventive treatment option for adult patients with CM. Tran...

    Authors: B. Brüggenjürgen, T. Baker, R. Bhogal and F. Ahmed
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1249
  11. Alcohol use among emergency patients has been studied earlier, but the data regarding alcohol use especially among critically ill and injured patients treated in the prehospital setting is scarce. The aim of ...

    Authors: Terhi Kauppila, Janne Virta, Leena Lindgren, Ilkka Virkkunen and Antti Kämäräinen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1247
  12. This study aims to evaluate the effects of adding salt to water on the physiological parameters of the blood parrot cichlid (Cichlasoma synspilum ♀ × Cichlasoma citrinellum ♂). The blood parrot cichlid is a popul...

    Authors: Yanming Sui, Xizhi Huang, Hui Kong, Weiqun Lu and Youji Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1246
  13. Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis) is a native Chilean species that produces berries that are exceptionally rich in anthocyanins and natural antioxidants. These natural compounds provide an array of health benef...

    Authors: Carolina Sánchez, Javier Villacreses, Noelle Blanc, Loreto Espinoza, Camila Martinez, Gabriela Pastor, Patricio Manque, Soledad F. Undurraga and Victor Polanco
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1243
  14. This study investigates platinum group elements (PGEs) in the breathable (PM10) and respirable (PM2.5) fractions of air particulates from a heavily polluted Indian metro city. The samples were collected from traf...

    Authors: Huey Ting Diong, Reshmi Das, Bahareh Khezri, Bijayen Srivastava, Xianfeng Wang, Pradip K. Sikdar and Richard D. Webster
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1242
  15. Chemokine C-C motif ligand 1 (CCL1) accumulates C-C motif chemokine receptor 8 positive leukocytes to the inflammatory sites. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the chemokine CCL1 gene are associated with exac...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Kishi, Masamichi Sato, Yoko Shibata, Kento Sato, Sumito Inoue, Shuichi Abe, Tomomi Kimura, Michiko Nishiwaki, Keiko Yamauchi, Takako Nemoto, Akira Igarashi, Yoshikane Tokairin, Osamu Nakajima and Isao Kubota
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1241
  16. The apple proliferation (AP) disease is spread mostly by two psyllids. Each species plays a predominant role as AP vector that changes regionally. Thus, there is an urgent need to identify the AP vectors in ea...

    Authors: Marcos Miñarro, Aitor Somoano, Aránzazu Moreno and Rocío Rosa García
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1240
  17. An incubation study was conducted to test the effects of phosphorus (P) addition on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the soils taken from two tropical rain forests established on different parent materials [me...

    Authors: Taiki Mori, Daiki Yokoyama and Kanehiro Kitayama
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1237
  18. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely prescribed in the community pharmacy. Their systemic administration has been related to significant adverse effects. The aim of this study was to evalu...

    Authors: Ahmad I. Dimassi, Mohamad K. Rahal, Mohamad M. Iskandarani and Etwal P. BouRaad
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1236
  19. The main purpose of this paper is to introduce the notion of vague h-morphism on vague graphs and regular vague graphs. The action of vague h-morphism on vague strong regular graphs are studied. Some elegant r...

    Authors: Hossein Rashmanlou, Sovan Samanta, Madhumangal Pal and R. A. Borzooei
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1234
  20. To explore if the regulation at post-transcriptional level of follicular phase (Fols) to luteal phase (Luts) transition occurs in the ovaries of Anhuai goats, the differentially expressed microRNAs (miRNAs) of...

    Authors: Long Zhu, Tao Chen, Menghua Sui, Chunyang Han, Fugui Fang, Yuehui Ma, Mingxing Chu, Xiaorong Zhang, Cuiyan Liu and Yinghui Ling
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1233
  21. Health literacy is an important construct in population health and healthcare requiring rigorous measurement. The Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ), with nine scales, measures a broad perception of health li...

    Authors: Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Lars Kayser, Ole Norgaard, Anne Bo, Gerald R. Elsworth and Richard H. Osborne
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1232
  22. This study evaluated the distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 39 surface sediment samples and four cores collected in Toulon Bay, a semiclosed area submitted to various anthropogenic inputs. The...

    Authors: Emmanuel Wafo, Lydia Abou, Alain Nicolay, Pierre Boissery, Thierry Perez, Rose Ngono Abondo, Cédric Garnier, Mama Chacha and Henri Portugal
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1230
  23. Leaf shrinkage provides insights into the potential variation of foliar SVR, within the same species, when leaf moisture content is changing in response to water deficit. Since SVR is among the most significan...

    Authors: Salaheddine Essaghi, M’hamed Hachmi, Mohammed Yessef and Mohammed Dehhaoui
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1229
  24. We describe impairments after breast cancer and its treatment for African American (AA), non-Hispanic white and low-income breast cancer survivors (BCS) and whether physical therapy (PT) was utilized to addres...

    Authors: Ann Marie Flores, Jason Nelson, Lee Sowles, Karen Bienenstock and William J. Blot
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1227
  25. The majority of methods for recognizing human actions are based on single-view video or multi-camera data. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-surface video analysis strategy. The video can be expressed as...

    Authors: Hong-Bo Zhang, Qing Lei, Bi-Neng Zhong, Ji-Xiang Du, Jialin Peng, Tsung-Chih Hsiao and Duan-Sheng Chen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1226
  26. Fidaxomicin use in real-world clinical practice, especially for severe Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), is mainly based on single-center observational studies. The purpose of this pharmacoepidemiology study...

    Authors: Dhara N. Shah, Fay S. Chan, Nandita Kachru, Krutina P. Garcia, Holly E. Balcer, April P. Dyer, John E. Emanuel, Michelle D. Jordan, Katherine T. Lusardi, Geri Naymick, Radhika S. Polisetty, Lanny Sieman, Ashley M. Tyler, Michael L. Johnson and Kevin W. Garey
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1224
  27. Although a few case reports about hypertensive anaphylaxis (HA) are available in the present literature, there is no study about the prevalence of HA. In this study, we review our cases with anaphylaxis presen...

    Authors: Emrullah Solmazgul, Ali Kutlu, Salim Dogru, Veysel Ozalper, Ibrahim Cetindagli, Ogun Sezer, Musa Salmanoglu, Erol Kilic, Ercan Karabacak and Sami Ozturk
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1223
  28. Increasing food production to feed its rapidly growing population is a major policy goal of Pakistan. The production of traditional staples such as rice (Oryza sativa L.) and bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) h...

    Authors: Ghayoor Fatima, Iqrar Ahmad Khan and Andreas Buerkert
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1222