A real-world limitation of visual servoing approaches is the sensitivity of visual tracking to varying ambient conditions and background clutter. The authors present a model-based vision framework to improve the robustness of edge-based feature tracking. Lines and ellipses are tracked using edge-projected integration of cues (EPIC). EPIC uses cues in regions delineated by edges that are defined...

Thematically, textually, and literarily, the psalm of Habakkuk (3:3 -15) differs markedly from the material in the rest of the book. Translation and subsequent analysis of the psalm reveal that it is a remnant of epic literature, and as such it focuses on the theme of the heroic. Throughout the passage, God is the hero whose actions divide the psalm into two parts. The first poem (vv 3-7) relat...

Medium Spectral Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) oxygen A band measurements were used as a proxy for the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), to be launched on NASA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). The high spatial resolution of MERIS (1 × 1 km) is exploited to study the effects of subscale spatial heterogeneity of clouds on the cloud-top pressure retrieved at the coarser...

the comparative research about the common features and roots of the shāh-nāme, the most renowned iranian national epic and the most comprehensive and authoritative source of heroic narratives, with other works of the same nature in verse and prose is a long story and cannot be adequately addressed in a limited scope. however, the present article aims at describing one or more common aspects. on...

As a literary subgenre, epic poetry is characterized with specific features in terms of language which distinguishes it from other subgenres. The secondary layer meaning the distinguishing factor. In study, order to examine epic, analyzes story "Rostam and Sohrab" frequency variety meanings its relationship type epic. For this purpose, syntactic structure verbs at beginning stanza related are e...

OBJECTIVES To describe the research methods for the development of a new open source, cross-platform tool which processes data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Norfolk Food Frequency Questionnaire (EPIC-Norfolk FFQ). A further aim was to compare nutrient and food group values derived from the current tool (FETA, FFQ EPIC Tool for Analysis) with the previousl...

Aims: Peritoneal carcinomatosis is treated with Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) with or without Early Postoperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (EPIC) depending on the pathology involved. Since 2010 heated intraperitoneal oxaliplatin has been utilised in our institution. Our aim was to determine if there was a significant cost difference between pati...

BACKGROUND Three prospective studies have examined the mortality of vegetarians in Britain. OBJECTIVE We describe these 3 studies and present preliminary results on mortality from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Oxford (EPIC-Oxford). DESIGN The Health Food Shoppers Study and the Oxford Vegetarian Study were established in the 1970s and 1980s, respectively; e...

PURPOSE There is little information in the literature on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) changes due to high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy monotherapy for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a prospective study of HRQOL changes due to HDR brachytherapy monotherapy for low risk or favorable intermediate risk prostate cancer. Sixty-four of 84 (76 %) patients who were trea...