The field of Biometrics is rapidly gaining popularity due to increasing breaches of traditional security systems and the decreasing costs of sensors. Among the biometric traits, the ear and the face are considered to be the most socially accepted due to their easy and non-intrusive data acquisition. Furthermore, their feature richness and physical proximity make them good candidates for fusion....

abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...

As ophthalmologists we tend to stick to what we know. We mostly use only four main groups of drugs that act on the eye—anti-infectives, anti-inflammatories, antiglaucoma medications, and lubricants—a limited formulary, but one that is evidence based according to our medical training. But there are alternative therapies which are becoming a growing part of our health care and for which eye condi...

Nurses worldwide have been rightly lauded for their tireless contributions during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Amid a serious shortage, nursing remains plagued by recruitment and retention problems as it struggles to attract, educate retain best potential nurses who reflect diverse composition of communities. The world has shaken Black Lives Matter movement growing awareness that many health p...

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People often draw trait inferences from the facial appearance of other people. We investigated the minimal conditions under which people make such inferences. In five experiments, each focusing on a specific trait judgment, wemanipulated the exposure time of unfamiliar faces. Judgments made after a 100-ms exposure correlated highly with judgments made in the absence of time constraints, suggest...

The aim of this article was to verify the sensitivity and specificity of the body mass index (BMI) cut-off points proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Nutrition Screening Initiative (NSI) for the diagnosis of obesity in the elderly. A cross-sectional study was made with 180 healthy elderly subjects from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Body fat percentage (%BF) wa...

When the wedding was over, Zarghuna climbed aboard bus, leaving evening's cool breeze for pungent, stuffy air of women's section. All in all, there were about forty them-men, women, and children-returning home from celebrations a neighbouring village. The women sat at front, swathed burqas hiding finery underneath, their faces made up carefully hoarded foundation, bright red lipstick, eyes rimm...

S Music and the Moving Image, May 31-June 2, 2013 NYU Steinhardt, Dept. Music and Performing Arts Professions, Program in Scoring for Film and Multimedia 1. FRIDAY, May 31, 9:30 11:00 AM Frederick Loewe Theatre Music Production Libraries: The Craft and the Business Doug Wood, President of Omnimusic & ASCAP Board Member Respondents: Ron Sadoff, Jeff Smith, Elisabeth Weis 2. Friday, May 31, 11:30...