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Mind control: The secret weapon utilised by religious cults to control their followers

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2004
The aim of this article is to create awareness of the dangers of religious cults. The process utilised by these cults to recruit members and to control their lives is so subtle that members are led to believe that they joined out of their own free will ...
S.P. Pretorius
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Evaluation of time-series registration methods in dynamic area telethermometry for breast cancer detection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Automated motion reduction in 3D dynamic infrared imaging is on demand in many applications. Few methods for registering time-series dynamic infrared frames have been proposed.
Molinari, Filippo   +4 more
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Curve Registration

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 1998
Summary Functional data analysis involves the extension of familiar statistical procedures such as principal components analysis, linear modelling, and canonical correlation analysis to data where the raw observation xi is a function. An essential preliminary to a functional data analysis is often the registration or alignment of salient
Ramsay, J. O., Li, Xiaochun
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Derringer desirability and kinetic plot LC-column comparison approach for MS-compatible lipopeptide analysis

open access: yesJournal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2014
Lipopeptides are currently re-emerging as an interesting subgroup in the peptide research field, having historical applications as antibacterial and antifungal agents and new potential applications as antiviral, antitumor, immune-modulating and cell ...
Matthias D’Hondt   +5 more
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Safety Issues With the Use of Antimicrobials in Current Clinical Practice [PDF]

open access: yesКлиническая микробиология и антимикробная химиотерапия, 2015
Due to increased use of antibiotics in current clinical practice it is very important to evaluate all risks of antimicrobial therapy. Pharmacovigilance plays a vital role in ensuring that doctors, together with the patient, have enough information about ...
Kuzmina A.V.   +3 more
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3D statistical shape models of human bones : their construction using a finite element registration algorithm, formulation on Hilbert spaces, and application to medical image analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Statistical shape models have become a widely used tool in computer vision and medical image analysis. They are constructed from a representative set of example shapes and represent the normal shape variations of a class of objects, in our case of human
Albrecht, Thomas
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Combining Mutual Information and Scale Invariant Feature Transform for Fast and Robust Multisensor SAR Image Registration

open access: yes, 2009
The Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) operator's success for computer vision applications makes it an attractive solution for the intricate feature based SAR image registration problem.
Reinartz, Peter   +3 more
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A comprehensive assessment of the impact of errors in the cancer registration process on 1- and 5-year relative survival estimates. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BACKGROUND: When making international comparisons of cancer survival, it is essential reported differences are real effects and not an artefact of potential errors in cancer registration. METHODS: We use simulation methods to assess the impact of various
Rutherford, MJ   +8 more
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