(1) These are difficult to segment using conventional thresholding or edge enhancement techniques due to their 'grainy' appearance, which makes it difficult to isolate key features from the other components found in the slice.
(2) In hydrated, vitrified cryo-sections, chromosomes exhibit a characteristic homogeneous, grainy texture, which, on optical diffraction, gives rise to a broad reflection corresponding to 11 nm.
(3) It turns out that the modulation transfer function is correlated to the visual sharpness and the Wiener spectrum is correlated to the visual impression of graininess.
(4) Though acclaimed for his black-and-white imagery – from the "falling soldier" photograph taken during the Spanish civil war, showing a Republican militiaman being hit by a fascist bullet, to the series of grainy D-Day shots of US soldiers on Omaha Beach – Capa worked in colour for most of his career.
(5) Early in 1999 a government-controlled TV channel aired a grainy video which purported to show Skuratov cavorting in bed with a couple of prostitutes.
(6) Rutherford is also puzzled that his record has been questioned on the basis of grainy YouTube footage.
(7) The conditions are little more favourable than 2007 – the crowd is just as monumental and the big screens largely inadequate, showing either grainy, monochrome boxes on each of the band or nothing at all – but the band is fired up and bolstered with intent.
(8) The DNA synthesis rate also correlates with the graininess of chromatin.
(9) It included grainy videos in which the blogger enters European embassies and the US interests section in Havana, and said she has collected $500,000 [£306,000] in international prizes for her work.
(10) The Wiener spectrum of film graininess and the MTF of geometric unsharpness were measured.
(11) Fluorescent antinuclear antibodies (FANA) with a diffusely grainy pattern, those with a nucleolar pattern and the anti-Scl-70 antibody were present in all 6 groups, but were significantly more frequent in the last 4 groups than in Groups 1 and 2.
(12) After the FBI released grainy footage of his death , critics of the militia said it seemed clear he was a threat.
(13) Twitter users circulated grainy footage of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser warning of any violations of the Tiran waters, which he said were Egyptian.
(14) The increasing graininess of low mAs sections did not induce errors of interpretation, despite a less pleasant appearance to the eyes.
(15) None of the other passersby show signs of being shocked, although it is hard to say given the footage is grainy.
(16) The camera attached to it did not survive, but the moving images within did – grainy grey and white shapes ending in the curve we now know so well; and beyond the curve, total black.
(17) Knowledge of that aftermath is what gives the grainy Wall Street images their peculiar power.
(18) If, as is likely, those grainy pictures of what happened at Stockwell tube still haunt her, as they surely haunt everyone who sees them, then it is possible that she will be a better leader in general, and a better commissioner of the Met than someone else with no blemish on their career.
(19) There’s something very raw about it: it’s straight-on flash, 35mm, black and white, grainy... They’re wearing Vivienne Westwood gear they’ve customised by sewing on silk Haile Selassie patches.
(20) Some factors affecting the capacity and serviceability of the compounds such as the nature and graininess of the abrasive, the quantity of the compound added to the container at a time are investigated.
Rainy
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy weather; a rainy day or season.
Example Sentences:
(1) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(2) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(3) Acholeplasma laidlawii was frequently isolated from samples both from cows and from farm bulk tanks during wet, rainy weather in the spring of 1978, apparently as contaminants only.
(4) The arts Facebook Twitter Pinterest Portland Art Museum For rainy days – and Portland has its fair share – as well as creative inspiration, Portland Art Museum is a must.
(5) The average number of infective larvae of O. volvulus per infective fly was 2.6 and 2.2 during the rainy and dry seasons respectively.
(6) "Users clearly want the option of being anonymous online and increasingly worry that this is not possible," said Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project.
(7) A cross-sectional survey in November, at the end of the rainy season, revealed a point prevalence parasitaemia of 2.0% and a spleen rate of 0.3%.
(8) Of the 22 fungal species isolated, A. flavus and A. parasiticus were the predominant species (63.8%) during the rainy season, followed by other species of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Rhizopus, Helminthosporium, and Curvularia.
(9) South Sudan's rainy season has overwhelmed aid efforts in refugee camps sheltering more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees in Maban county, say international aid agencies.
(10) The majority of lesions appeared during the June-October rainy season.
(11) The overall infection rate was found to be around 20% with a distinct peak of acute infections during the rainy season.
(12) Further trouble seems likely, with talk of a “day of rage” on Tuesday and strikes by students at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah, but the sudden onset of rainy weather may help to calm the febrile mood.
(13) Studies on Culex pipiens fatigans dispersal were conducted during the hot, cold, rainy, and post-rainy seasons in 2 villages in the Delhi area in order to improve techniques and to determine the optimum time of release.
(14) In the palm grove, transmission was ensured by 2 effective vectors during the rainy season (October to May).
(15) But this El Niño arrives at the end of California’s rainy season and is quite weak, Halpert said.
(16) Most cases of bronchiolitis occurred in outbreaks during the rainy months of August through November, coinciding with respiratory syncytial virus outbreaks.
(17) There are two birth peaks in the year that coincide with the rainy season.
(18) Falling standards of sanitation resulted in the first outbreak of cholera in Lusaka, Zambia, during the rainy season, February 1990.
(19) There is an indication that the winter season is most conducive for the spread of the disease (51.0%), followed by post-monsoon (41.3%), summer (23.1%) and rainy season (11.1%).
(20) Attacks usually occurred in winter and the rainy season.