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BACKGROUND Enthesopathies are a common cause of axial pain that is amenable to "minimally invasive" therapy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of injection therapy for enthesopathies. DESIGN Single blinded, randomized, and cross-over study. METHODS Thirty-five patients diagnosed as having painful enthesopathies as a major pain generator were studied. Of the patients studied, 86% of ...

Attribute estimation is an important machine learning problem. It is contained in many tasks, e.g., feature subset selection, constructive induction, decision and regression tree building. Relief algorithms are one of the most successful heuristic measures for solving this problem. The quality estimates of the Relief algorithms have commonly been interpreted as the difference of two probabiliti...

We have developed a new method for transforming images with per-pixel displacements into textures that have correct parallax when texture-mapped, in the usual way, onto polygons. Our new method results from factoring the 3-D image-warping equations of McMillan and Bishop into a prewarp followed by standard texture mapping. The pre-warp handles only the parallax effects resulting from the direct...

Australia experiences frequent heat waves and generally high average temperatures throughout the continent with substantial impacts on human health and the economy. People adapt to heat by adopting various relief measures in their daily lives including changing their behaviour. Many labour intensive outdoor industries implement standards for heat stress management for their workforce. However, ...

Digital photogrammetry offers effective and accurate procedures for the preservation and inventory of cultural heritage. In case of twoand three-dimensional products of early mapmaking the application of these methods goes far beyond documentation and visualization: it primarily aims at the derivation of new information. This paper reports on conclusions which can be drawn from the quantitative...

In the context of this work a number of rules for landscape design editor development are proposed. These rules are aimed at the support of the reciprocal influence of the relief and objects located on its surface. An experimental graphical editor of dynamic 3D scenes has been created on the basis of relief shape inheritance principle (inheritance of z coordinate of any object). Various inherit...