We present a damage pattern mining framework for hurricane data on residential houses using aerial photographs with 1:3000 based scale. The vertical photographs are normally collected for an overview of a disaster area or for more detailed assessment. Damage on roof, especially for shingles torn off, is expected to be discovered in a more efficient and automatic way instead of going through the...

Recently, Kitaev [9] introduced partially ordered generalized patterns (POGPs) in the symmetric group, which further generalize the generalized permutation patterns introduced by Babson and Steingrı́msson [1]. A POGP p is a GP some of whose letters are incomparable. In this paper, we study the generating functions (g.f.) for the number of k-ary words avoiding some POGPs. We give analogues, exten...

Abstract Children and adolescents in residential care often present with emotional and/or behavioral problems associated to previous adverse experiences such as abuse neglect. Consequently, child welfare systems have developed therapeutic (TRC) programs address the most complex needs of this population. The aim study is explore characteristics youths TRC comparing them those youth general (GRC)...

Landscape changes associated with urbanization can lead to many serious ecological and environmental problems. Quantifying the vertical structure of the urban landscape and its change is important to understand its social and ecological impacts, but previous studies mainly focus on urban horizontal expansion and its impacts on land cover/land use change. This papers focuses on the residential l...

Urban remote sensing research and approaches to modelling residential mobility focus predominantly on growth patterns. In this paper, the phenomenon of extreme urban decline, named ‘shrinkage’, is scrutinised. The different characteristics of urban decline are illuminated using a multi-scale approach. Selected patterns of the spatial growth and shrinkage are first calculated by means of satelli...

OBJECTIVES To describe the pattern of infectious diseases among children admitted from a residential child care centre and to identify any unusual clusters of admissions. DESIGN Retrospective case review. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All children from a residential child care centre aged over 28 days who were admitted from the Accident and Emergency Department to paediat...

Brugada syndrome is a genetically determined familial disease with autosomal dominant transmission and variable penetrance, conferring a predisposition to sudden cardiac death due to ventricular arrhythmias. The syndrome is characterized by a typical electrocardiographic pattern in the right precordial leads. This article will focus on the new electrocardiographic features recently agreed on by...

there are no adequate data that evaluate the safety and effectiveness of lowering triglyceride levels in infants. the authors report a neonate affected by familial hyperchylomicronemia, while being investigated for sepsis the serum sample obtained for blood counts was discovered to be lipaemic and the case was subsequently investigated for dyslipidemia. based on this very abnormal lipid profile...

To the Editor: Michowitz et al present an interesting study on the prevalence of familial atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia (AVNRT). They report a prevalence of 127 out of 10 000 of familial AVNRT with a likely autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance (with incomplete penetrance). A potentially important question is whether all the observed cases represent “pure” familial AVNRT or w...

A recent survey has shown that Nepali drug users in Hong Kong tend to have a low rate of usage of day-care and residential rehabilitation services, but a high rate of usage of methadone services. Little is known about the reasons behind such a pattern. Therefore, in this study, a 12-month ethnographic examination has been implemented in three sites, including a day-care center, residential reha...