The present research is an introductory paper on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems. A review on topics and techniques related to the longrange and shortrange SAR systems are presented. The longrange SAR image is constructed using RangeDoppler Algorithm (RDA); while the RangeMigration Algorithm (RMA) is implemented with shortrange SAR for image formation. The simulation results indica...

Studies were conducted in selected areas in three states namely Johor (n=117, male=55, female=62), Negeri Sembilan (n=130, male=52, female=78) and Malacca (n=97, male=33, female=64) involving free living elderly (age range from 60 to 93 years old). Respondents were divided into three age cohort groups that is 60 to 69 years, 70 to 79 years and above 80 years old. Assessment of macro and micronu...

In this paper, we make a study on three Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) based methods: Regularized Discriminant Analysis (RDA), Discriminant Common Vectors (DCV) and Maximal Margin Criterion (MMC) in the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem. Our contributions are that: 1) we reveal that DCV obtains the same projection subspace as both RDA and wMMC (weighted MMC, a general form of MMC) when RDA’s ...

Maternal placentophagy has recently emerged as a rare but increasingly popular practice among women in industrialized countries who often ingest the placenta as a processed, encapsulated supplement, seeking its many purported postpartum health benefits. Little scientific research, however, has evaluated these claims, and concentrations of trace micronutrients/elements in encapsulated placenta h...

BACKGROUND Because different groups of people with low back pain (LBP) engage in different tasks, their lumbopelvic-hip complex may move in different ways in those groups. The purpose of this study was to quantify the differences in lumbopelvic movement pattern during the passive hip external rotation (PHER) test in LBP patients with and without rotational demand activities (RDA). MATERIAL AN...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Osteopenia and increased risk for fractures in IBD result from several factors. AIM OF THE STUDY To investigate the dietary intake of calcium in IBD patients. METHODS A 22-item quantitative validated frequency food questionnaire was used for quantifying dietary calcium in relation to gender and age, in 187 IBD patients, 420 normal- and 276 diseased controls. STATISTICAL ...

This paper presents the Remote Device Access (RDA) package developed atCERNintheframework of the joint PS/SL Controls Middleware project. The package design reflects the Accelerator Device Model inwhichdevices,namedentitiesinthecontrolsystem, canbecontrolledviaproperties.RDAimplementsthis model in a distributed environment with devices residinginserversthatcanrunanywhereinthecontrols network. I...