This study examined Object-based (OB) rotation and Visual Perspective-Taking (VPT) abilities in Williams syndrome (WS) compared to typically developing (TD) 5-10-year-olds. Extensive difficulties with both types of imagined rotation were observed in WS; WS performance was in line with the level of ability observed in TD 5-year-olds. However, an atypical pattern of errors on OB and VPT tasks was...

This paper describes our approach for the Visual Privacy Task (VPT) of the MediaEval 2014. Video privacy filtering based on privacy-sensitive-object transparency is proposed. The background (hidden behind the object) is estimated by median filtering over time sequence of pixel values. We focus only on the areas labeled as high privacy sensitive (i.e. face). Low and medium privacy areas were rat...

BACKGROUND Very preterm (VPT) children, with a birth weight below 1500 g or delivered before 32 weeks of gestational age, are at increased risk of poorer long-term health outcomes and higher rates of hospitalization in childhood. However, considerable variation exists in the need for in-hospital care within this population. We assessed the utilization and distribution of hospital-based care fro...

A new Matlab-Based, user-friendly virtual propagation tool (VPT) that can be used for multi-mixed path surface wave path loss calculations has been designed. Any multi-mixed-path surface wave propagation scenario may be specified by the user together with all the necessary input parameters, and path loss vs. range plots may be produced. The effects of multi-mixed paths, electrical parameters of...

in modern endodontics, vital pulp therapy (vpt) has been considered an ultra-conservative treatment modality. based on the level of pulp preservation, vpt includes stepwise excavation, indirect pulp capping (idpc), direct pulp capping (dpc), miniature pulpotomy (mp), partial/cvek pulpotomy and coronal/complete pulpotomy (cp). the present article reviews the treatment outcomes of 94 permanent te...

Once the employee has been selected, trained and motivated, he is then appraised for his performance. Performance appraisal step where management finds out how effective it at hiring placing employees. Thus, teachers evaluate performance of students, bankers creditors, parents behavior their children all us consciously or unconsciously our own actions from time to time. In social interactions, ...

The aims of the study were to assess the availability of verbal coding and its effect on performance in a standard visual matrix task, the Visual Patterns Test (VPT). In a pilot study, participants were presented with the patterns from the VPT and were asked to name the shapes within them. Availability of verbal codes was low overall; however, some patterns resulted in a higher mean number of l...

In this paper, we study the fuzzy front-end (FFE) of innovation in the context of temporary virtual project teams (VPTs). We argue that despite the importance of innovation for today’s organizations, and the prevalence of VPTs in most industries, there are no studies examining how the innovation process plays out in this context. We draw on two temporary VPTs (Saint-Germain and Los Innovadores)...

PURPOSE We hypothesized that intended pregnancy is associated with decreased risk of poor birth outcomes, irrespective of age or race. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study of 47,956 live singleton births using 1993-2001 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS). We used logistic regression to estimate the odds ...