Concern about the proprietary rights over human body parts has had a dramatic recent impact in some European countries with many implications for future research.

Human body pose tracking is a challenging task for several reasons. The large variety of poses and high dimensionality of the human model complicates the examination of the entire subject and makes it harder to detect each body part separately. However, the poses can be presented in a low dimensional space using the dimensionality reduction techniques. Such a reduction improves the trackers rob...

determination of the total body absorbed dose consists of two parts: beta radiation absorbed dose and gamma radiation absorbed dose. the first part is generally determined by clinical data, while the second part has a parameter called absorbed ratio and is determined by computational methods. the monte-carlo computational methods have been shown to be the most suitable in determination of the a...

the researches have made different explanations about rhytons, but they mostly accepted that “rhyton is a kind of a drinking vessel often in the form of an animal, having two holes for pouring water.” rhytons were used in iran from forth millennium b.c. to the end of sasanian period. the animals that are used are of two different kinds: imaginary animals or the real animals. diversity of the sh...

the body-part term dast ‘hand’ is investigated in this article as used in the first part of 160 farsi compound nouns. the questions are: how is the semantic change pattern of hand used in persian compound nouns? also how the collective mind and social/ cultural memory of persian linguistic society can be accounted for and compared with chinese and english? the aim is investigation of semantic c...

This is the second of a two-part review on body temperature variability. Part 1 discussed historical and modern findings on average body temperatures. It also discussed endogenous sources of temperature variability, including variations caused by site of measurement; circadian, menstrual, and annual biological rhythms; fitness; and aging. Part 2 reviews the effects of exogenous masking agents -...