Edward Ayensu
Edward Solomon Ayensu, Ghanaian botanist and economist (Sekondi 28 Aug 1935 – Accra 22 April 2023) Papers / books with more than 100 citations With J. Duke. Medicinal plants of China (1984) Medicinal plants of West Indies (1981) With A.L. Stoffers, B. Meggers & W. Duckworth. Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review (1973) With J. Hutchinson, J. Dalziel, R. Keay & F. Hepper. Flora of West Tropical Asia (1972) With D. Coursey. Guinea yams: the botany, ethnobotany, use and possible future of yams in West Africa. Economic Botany (1972) Plant anatomy Leaf anatomy and systematics of New World Velloziaceae. Smithsonian Contrib. To Botany 15 (1974) With J. Skvarla. Fine structure of Velloziaceae pollen. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 101(5):250-66, 1974 Biological and morphological aspects of the Velloziaceae. Biotropica 5(3):135-49, 1973 With J. Vaughan & C.R. Metcalfe. Anatomy of the monocotyledones. VI. Dioscoreales (1973) Aspects of the complex nodal anatomy of the Dioscoreaceae. J. Arnold Arboret. 50(1):124-37, 1969 With P. Tomlinson. Notes on the vegetative morphology and anatomy of the Petermanniaceae (Monocotyledones). Linn. Soc. London Bot. J. 62(1):17-26, 1969 Comparative vegetative anatomy of the Stemonaceae (Roxburghiaceae). Bot. Gaz. 129 (2), 1968 With W. Stern. Systematic anatomy and ontogeny of the stem in Passifloraceae (1964) DESCRIBED PLANTAE TAXA Genus Nanuza with L.B. Smith Sections Vellozia sect. Xerophytoides 1976 with L.B. Smith Xerophyta sect. Barbacenioides 1974 and Vellozoides 1974 Species (with Lyman B. Smith) Barbacenia aurea 1976 Barbacenia bibiriensis 1976 Barbacenia burle-marxii 1976 Barbacenia chlorantha 1976 Barbacenia contasana 1980 Barbacenia culta 1976 Barbacenia cyananthera 1976 Barbacenia filamentifera 1976 Barbacenia latifolia 1976 Barbacenia minima 1979 Barbacenia nana 1976 Barbacenia nanuzae 1976 Barbacenia nuda 1976 Barbacenia pallida 1976 Barbacenia pulverulenta 1976 Barbacenia rectifolia 1976 Barbacenia reflexa 1976 Barbacenia salmonea 1976 Barbacenia saxicola 1976 Barbacenia sordida 1976 Barbacenia umbrosa 1976 Burlemarxia spiralis 1976 Pleurostima andersonii 1976 Pleurostima cylindrica 1976 Pleurostima delicatula 1976 Pleurostima hatschbachii 1976 Pleurostima monticola 1976 Pleurostima pabstiana 1976 Pleurostima spectabilis 1976 Vellozia bahiana 1976 Vellozia bicarinata 1976 Vellozia brachypoda 1976 Vellozia burle-marxii 1976 Vellozia caespitosa 1976 Vellozia caput-ardeae 1976 Vellozia castanea 1976 Vellozia costata 1976 Vellozia decídua 1976 Vellozia furcata 1980 Vellozia geotegens 1976 Vellozia harleyi 1980 Vellozia hatschbachii 1976 Vellozia lilacina 1976 Vellozia modesta 1976 Vellozia nanuzae 1976 Vellozia nivea 1976 Vellozia nuda 1976 Vellozia patens 1976 Vellozia pterocarpa 1976 Vellozia scabsosa 1976 Vellozia sibalata 1976 Vellozia sincorana 1976 Vellozia stellata 1980 Vellozia stipitata 1976 Vellozia teres 1976 Vellozia tomeana 1976 Vellozia torquata 1976 Vellozia wasshausenii 1976 Xerophyta concolor 1974 Xerophyta nutans 1974 Xerophyta concolor 1974 Xerophyta pauciramosa 1974 Xerophyta simulans 1974 Xerophyta zambiana 1974 HONORS Ayensua L.B. Smith 1969 (Bromeliaceae)
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)