Automatic classification of urban settlement from satellite images has various applications such as urban development planning and the gathering of environmental statistics. Abeigne Ella et al. [1] showed that Local Binary Patterns (LBP) features extracted from QuickBird images of the Soweto region in South Africa is superior to other feature extraction methods described in [2],[3], [4], [5], [...

Carotenoids are unstable compounds and are easily degraded to a variety of products in the presence of oxygen and light as well as at elevated temperatures. Ohloff (1972) hypothesised that carotenoids are precursors of aromatic compounds such as C13-norisoprenoids. Recently, several C13-norisoprenoids have been identified upon liberation from their bound forms in grapes and wines (Sefton et at....

1 1. INTRODUCTION This introduction presents a context for this dissertation and helps clarify to the reader how fulfillment of the research aims and objectives will make a contribution to management science and practice. To do so, the discussion starts off with a background and purpose of the research project, and then it explains the research focus and gives a brief overview of the project's ...

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Ellis-Van Creveld syndrome is a very rare congenital disorder which its principal features are polysyndactyly, chondrodysplasia, cardiac abnormalities and ectodermal dysplasia. We report a 10-year-old girl with major manifestations of this syndrome who also had multiple brownish macules and patches on trunk and extremities with aortic and pulmonary stenosis in echocardiographic evaluations.

ellis-van creveld sydrome (chondroectodermal dysplasia) is a hereditary form of short limb disproportionate dwarfism characterized by diffuse involvement of skeletal system and visceral organs. two brothers affected by this syndrome are presented here following a brief account of the disease's manifestations.