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  • Open Access

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    A Narrative Review Unravelling the Historical Roots of Myths Surrounding Hypnosis and Discerning Facts

    Revue narrative pour démêler les racines historiques des mythes entourant l’hypnose et discerner les faits

    Dali Geagea*

    Psycho-Oncologie, Vol.17, No.4, pp. 215-224, 2023, DOI:10.32604/po.2023.043338

    Abstract Hypnosis, one of the earliest mind-body treatments, has been the subject of renewed interest in the last decade with research indicating its effectiveness for varied physiological and psychological ailments including pain, distress, and psychosomatic disorders. However, the adoption and acceptance of hypnosis are still hindered by myths and misconceptions that prevail among the general public and clinicians. Considering their significant role in promoting the successful delivery and acceptance of interventions, informing clinicians about hypnosis is crucial to promote balanced views, and thereby the adoption of this intervention when warranted. This narrative review traces the historical roots of myths surrounding hypnosis,… More >

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    ARTICLE

    Optimal Allocation of STATCOM to Enhance Transient Stability Using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm

    Ayman Amer1, Firas M. Makahleh2, Jafar Ababneh3, Hani Attar4, Ahmed Amin Ahmed Solyman5, Mehrdad Ahmadi Kamarposhti6,*, Phatiphat Thounthong7

    Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3425-3446, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.034854

    Abstract With the daily expansion of global energy consumption, developing the power grids is of uttermost importance. However, building a new transmission line is costly and time-consuming, so utilizing the same lines with possible higher transmission capacity is very cost-effective. In this regard, to increase the capacity of the transmission lines, the flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) has been widely used in power grids in recent years by industrialized countries. One of the essential topics in electrical power systems is the reactive power compensation, and the FACTS plays a significant role in controlling the reactive power current in the power… More >

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    ARTICLE

    Artifacts Reduction Using Multi-Scale Feature Attention Network in Compressed Medical Images

    Seonjae Kim, Dongsan Jun*

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3267-3279, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020651

    Abstract Medical image compression is one of the essential technologies to facilitate real-time medical data transmission in remote healthcare applications. In general, image compression can introduce undesired coding artifacts, such as blocking artifacts and ringing effects. In this paper, we proposed a Multi-Scale Feature Attention Network (MSFAN) with two essential parts, which are multi-scale feature extraction layers and feature attention layers to efficiently remove coding artifacts of compressed medical images. Multi-scale feature extraction layers have four Feature Extraction (FE) blocks. Each FE block consists of five convolution layers and one CA block for weighted skip connection. In order to optimize the… More >

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    ARTICLE

    Adaptive Signal Enhancement Unit for EEG Analysis in Remote Patient Care Monitoring Systems

    Ch. Srinivas1,*, K. Chandrabhushana Rao2

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.67, No.2, pp. 1801-1817, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.014981

    Abstract In this paper we propose an efficient process of physiological artifact elimination methodology from brain waves (BW), which are also commonly known as electroencephalogram (EEG) signal. In a clinical environment during the acquisition of BW several artifacts contaminates the actual BW component. This leads to inaccurate and ambiguous diagnosis. As the statistical nature of the EEG signal is more non-stationery, adaptive filtering is the more promising method for the process of artifact elimination. In clinical conditions, the conventional adaptive techniques require many numbers of computational operations and leads to data samples overlapping and instability of the algorithm used. This causes… More >

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    ARTICLE

    Fuzzy Based Adaptive Deblocking Filters at Low-Bitrate HEVC Videos for Communication Networks

    Anudeep Gandam1,*, Jagroop Singh Sidhu2

    CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.3, pp. 3045-3063, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.013663

    Abstract In-loop filtering significantly helps detect and remove blocking artifacts across block boundaries in low bitrate coded High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) frames and improves its subjective visual quality in multimedia services over communication networks. However, on faster processing of the complex videos at a low bitrate, some visible artifacts considerably degrade the picture quality. In this paper, we proposed a four-step fuzzy based adaptive deblocking filter selection technique. The proposed method removes the quantization noise, blocking artifacts and corner outliers efficiently for HEVC coded videos even at low bit-rate. We have considered Y (luma), U (chroma-blue), and V (chroma-red) components… More >

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    ARTICLE

    Facts and Effects to be Considered when Validating 2D and 3D UD Composite Failure Conditions - experiences from participation in the World-Wide-Failure-Exercise

    R. G. Cuntze1

    Structural Durability & Health Monitoring, Vol.6, No.3&4, pp. 123-160, 2010, DOI:10.3970/sdhm.2010.006.123

    Abstract The paper deals with the validation of 2D and 3D failure conditions of unidirectional (UD) composites composed of endless fibres and thermoset matrices. The generation of these failure conditions is shortly described and then applied to test cases of the World-Wide-Failure-Exercises WWFE-I and II, organized by Qinetic in the past 20 years. The derivation of the conditions for the brittle fracture failure experiencing UD lamina material was based on the author's so-called Failure Mode Concept (FMC) which basically builds up on the hypotheses of Beltrami and Mohr-Coulomb. The generally applicable FMC is applied here to UD material. Essential topics of… More >

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    ARTICLE

    UPFC Based Real-Time Optimization of Power Systems for Dynamic Voltage Regulation

    Serhat Berat Efe1,*

    CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.116, No.3, pp. 391-406, 2018, DOI:10.31614/cmes.2018.01784

    Abstract Flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) components are used to utilize the electrical transmission lines at their optimum capacity. The best way to achieve this optimization is to manage the active and reactive power flows. A unified power flow controller (UPFC) is one of the most significant devices developed for the effective control of power flows. Although conventional UPFC structures can be used to achieve this process, the expansion of power systems has led to the necessity of developing various UPFC devices. This paper focuses on an advanced real time control approach of UPFC for dynamic voltage regulation. The developed… More >

  • Open Access

    ARTICLE

    Ring Artifacts Reduction in CBCT: Pixels Detection and Patch Based Correction

    Haitong Zhao1, Yi Li1, Shouhua Luo1,*

    Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 265-273, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07381

    Abstract The ring artifacts introduced by the defective pixels with non-linear responses in the high-resolution detector, have a great impact on subsequent processing and quantitative analysis of the reconstructed images. In this paper, a multistep method is proposed to suppress the ring artifacts of micro CT images, which firstly locates the positions of the defective pixels in the sinogram, and then corrects the corresponding value in the projections. Since the defective pixels always appear as vertical stripes in the sinogram, a horizontal curve is derived by summing the pixel values along vertical direction, thus the abrupt segments related to the defective… More >

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