Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño
Eduardo Aguirre Pequeño y Yuriria, Mexican biologist (Hualahuises, Nuevo León State 14 March 1904 – Monterrey 18 July 1988) Proved that the causative agent of pinta was Treponema carateum (1939) and developed treatment for it Developed a diagnostic method for Plasmodium vivax at microscope Found Bufo valliceps Wiegmann for biological pregnancy test (1948)
Eduardo Acosta Bendek
Eduardo Francisco Acosta Bendek, Colombian obstetrician (Sitio Nuevo, Magdalena Department 24 July 1919 – Barranquilla 27 December 2017) Discovered Culex fatigans as a vector of Wuchereiria bancrofti Reported fetus crying in uterus in Obst. Ginec. Latinoamericana 14:255, 1956 Proposed the use of intrauterine oxygen as a contrast medium for placental location (1958) Demonstrated that fetus swallows intrauterinally Discovered and recorded the breath motionsin uterus Developed a suture with separating points of uterine segment for cesarean section Developed a technique and a teaspoon for molar pregnancy Nuevo instrumento: cucharilla molar. Rev. Col. Obst. Gin. 19:447, 1968
Edmundo Navarro de Andrade
Edmundo Navarro de Andrade, Brazilian forester (São Paulo 02 January 1881 – São Paulo 01 December 1941) ACHIEVEMENTS Regarded as authority of world renown in reforestation with exotic specimens HONORS Grand Medaille de Saint-Hilaire, Societé Nationale d’Aclimatation de France (1928) Meyer Medal, American Association of Genetics (1941) MEMBERSHIP Correspondent member, Reale Accademia di Agricoltura di Fiorino, Italy Member, American Foresters Society CURIOSITIES/TRIVIA Founded Museu do Eucalipto (today Museu Edmundo Navarro de Andrade) in Rio Claro, São Paulo State (1916). This museum is the only one in the world totally dedicated to eucalyptus. SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY A cultura do eucalipto, 1909; A cultura do eucalipto nos Estados Unidos, 1910; Manual do plantador do eucalipto, 1912; With H. Carvalho & O. Vecchi. A Dinamite na Agricultura, 1912; A cultura do café nas Índias Neerlandezas, 1914; Questões florestais, 1915; With O. Vecchi. Les bois indigènes; Instruções para a cultura da juta em S. Paulo, 1920; O reflorestamento do Brasil e a Companhia Paulista, 1922; Café, juta e borracha, 1923; With A. Neiva & Costa Lima. Relatório da Comissão Técnica sobre a broca do café, 1924; A Broca do Café, idem, 1925; Pesquisas sobre a Berne, in «Boletim Biológico», 1927; Uma praga dos bambus, Boletim Biológico, 1927; O Eucalipto e as suas aplicações, 1ª parte, 1928; Contribuição para o estudo da Entomologia Florestal Paulista, 1928; Citricultura, 1930; Subsídios para a Entomologia Agrícola Brasileira. 1930; Pesquisas sobre a Biologia da mosca da madeira – Pantophtalmus pictus, in Arquivos de Biologia, 1930;
Driss Aboutadjine
Driss Aboutadjine, Moroccan information and telecommunications engineer (30 December 1953 – Beni Mellal, Rabat 04 March 2017) CONTRIBUITIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY With M. Elmoutahdi & S. El Fikhi. Fingerprint identification based on hierarchical triangulation. J. Inform. Process Systems 14(2):435-47, 2018 With H.A. Abdelali, F. Essannouni & L. Essannouni. Fast and robust object tracking via accept-reject color histogram based method. J. Vis. Comm. Image Repres. 34:219-29, 2016 With M. Benyoussef, S. Mabtoul & M. El Marraki. Robust ROI watermarking scheme based on visual cryptography: application on mammogram. J. Inform. Process Systems 11(4):495-508, 2015 With C. Anibou & M.N. Saidi. Classification of textured images based on discrete wavelet transform and informationn fusion. J. Inform. Process Systems 11(3):421-37, 2015 With S. Ousguine, F. Essannouni & L. Essannouni. A new image interpolation using gradient-orientation and cubic spline interpolation. Int. J. Innov. Appl. Studies 5(3):215-21, 2014 With A. Badri & H. Yahia. Robust surface reconstruction via triple sparsity (2014) With O. Zytoune. An optimized energy awarechaining technique for data gathering in wireless sensor networks. Inter. J. Digital Inf. Wireless Comm. 3(2):41, 2013 With O. Zytoune. A lifetime extension protocol for data gathering in wireless sensor networks. Int. J. Innov. Appl. Studies 4(3):477-82, 2013 With E. Sarhrouni & A. Hammouch. Dimensionality a reduction and classification feature using mutual information applied to hyperspectral images: a wrapper strategy algorithm based on minimizing the error probability using the inequality of Fano. Appl. Math. Sciences 6(102):5073-84, 2012 With E. Sarhrouni & A. Hammouch. Application of symmetric uncertainty and mutual information to dimensionality reduction and classification of hyperspectral images. Inter. J. Engin. Technology 4(5):268-76, 2012 With A. El Akadi, A. Amine & A. El Ouardighi. A two-stage gene selection scheme utilizing MRMR filter and GA wrapper. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 26:487-500, 2011 With H. El Khattabi & A. Tantaoui. Measure a subjective video quality via a neural network (2011) With M. El Hassouni. 3D Mesh denoising using an improved vertex based anisotropic diffusion. Int. J. Comp. Sci. Inform. Security 8(2), 2010 With O. Zytoune & Y. Fakhri. A novel energy aware clustering technique for routing in wireless sensor networks. Wireless Sensor Networks 2(3):233, 2010 With O. Zytoune. An uniform balancing energy routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. Wireless Personal Comm. 55(2):147-61, 2010 With B. Elbhiri & R. Saadane. Developed distributed energy efficient clustering (DDEEC) for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (2010) With Ideraim, D. Ducrot & D. Mammass. An unsupervised classification using a novel ICM method with constraints for land cover mapping from remote sensing imagery. Int. Review Computers & software 4(2):165-76, 2009 With A. El mAkadi, A. Amine & A. El Ouardighi. A new gene selection approach based on minimum redundancy-maximum relevancy (MRMR) and genetic algorithm (GA) (2009) With A. El Akadi & A. El Ouardighi. A powerful feature selection approach based on mutual information. Int. J. Comp. Sci. Netw. Soc. 8(4):116, 2008 With A; Radgui, C. Demonceaux, E.M. Mouaddib & M. Rziza. An adapted Lucas-Kanade’s method for optical flow estimation in catadioptric images (2008) With A. Jbari & A. Adib. Blind audio separation and content analysis in the time-scale domain. Inter. J. Semant. Computing 1(3):307-18, 2007 With F. Essannouni, R. Oulad Haj Thame & A. Salam. Simple noncircular correlation method for exhaustive sum square difference matching (2007) With M. Bakrim & M. Najim. New cumulant-based approaches for non-Gaussian time-varying AR models. Signal Processing 39 (1-2):107-15, 1994 With A.A. Abdelouahad., M. El Hassouni & H. Cherifi. A reduced reference image quality measure using Bessel K forms model for tetrolet coefficients With E. Sarhrouni & A. Hammouch. Band selection and classification of hyperspectral images using mutual information: an algorithm based on minimizing the error probability using the inequality of Fano With H. Bouirouga, S. El Fikhi & A. Jilbab. Comparison of performance between different SWM kernels for the identification of adult video With A. Amehraye, D. Pastor & A. Tantaoui. From maskee to audible noise in perceptual speech enhancement With A. Jbari & A. Adib. A double referenced contrast for blind source separation With M. Rziza, M. El Aroussi, M. El Hassouni & S. Ghouzali. Local curvelet based classification using linear discriminant analysis for face recognition With B. Ibrahim & E.H. Ibn Elhaj. Optimal and generalized multiple descriptions image coding transform in the wavelet domain With H. El Maia & A. Hammouch. Hybrid color-texture space for image classification With O. Zytoune & Y. Fakhri. A balanced cost cluster-heads selection algorithm for wireless sensor networks With S. Mabtoul & E. Ibn Elhaj. Robust semi-blind digital image watermarking technique in DT-CWT domain
Donato Alarcón Segovia
Donato Alarcón Segovia, Mexican physician (Ciudad de Mexico 06 May 1935 – Ciudad de Mexico 21 December 2004) Authored over 300 papers, 14 books and 99 book chapters World Pioneer on studies of immune regulating circuits and analysis of pathogenic role of antinuclear and anti-phospholipids antibodies With D.G. Alarcón reported the first detailed description of pleuropulmonary manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (1961) Studied lupus drug-induced syndromes, described its clinical aspects and auto antibodies that feature it (1969) First to suggest that antinuclear antibodies could be natural antinuclear auto antibodies (1970) before Avrameas With A. Ruiz Arguelles & E. Fishbein first described antibodies penetration in living cells and its functional consequences in Nature 271:67-9, 1978 With F. Ramos Niembro, R.P. Tamayo & J. Alcocer proposed the use of colchicine for treatment of sclerodermia (1979) With J. Alcocer described cytokines relationship to a disease in J. Clin. Investig. (1981) Performed the first studies about nuclear medicine application to rheumatic studies disease With A.E. Gharavi first described primary variety of antiphospholipid syndrome (1989) With Harris described the criteria of antiphospholipid syndrome Imagined the bone gammagraphy technique Eponym of Alarcón Segovia diagnostic criteria for mixed connective tissue disease and Alarcon-Brown classification for nectrotizing vasculitides Held about 10000 citations LINKS http://reumatologiaclinica.org/es/in-memoriam/articulo/13075522/ (in Spanish)
Dharani Dhar Awasthi
Dharani Dhar Awasthi, Indian mycologist and lichenologist (Naret, Askote, Uttaranchal 29 September 1922 – 21 August 2011) DESCRIBED LICHENIZED FUNGI TAXA Valid Genera Cyclographina 1979 Heppsora 1977 with K.P. Singh Parmelaria 1987 Species About 100 HONORS (Lichenes) Awasthia Esslinger 1978 Awasthiella Singh 1980 HONOURS Acharius Medal (1992)