Holistic Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and holistic Independent Component Analysis (ICA) methods require long training times and large storage spaces for the recognition of facial images. These drawbacks can be avoided by using partitioning-based methods, namely partitioned PCA (pPCA) and partitioned ICA (pICA), which yield similar performance for pPCA and improved performance for pICA met...

INTRODUCTION & OBJECTIVES Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common disorder and social debilitating that has adverse effects on the mother, child and family. Pica is an eating disorder characterized by persistent ingestion of substances that the consumer does not define as food. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of postpartum depression with pica during pregnancy. METHOD...

BACKGROUND Pica, the craving and subsequent consumption of non-food substances such as earth, charcoal, and raw starch, has been an enigma for more than 2000 years. Currently, there are little available data for testing major hypotheses about pica because of methodological limitations and lack of attention to the problem. METHODOLOGY In this paper we critically review procedures and guideline...

Although response blocking can decrease problem behavior, one potential adverse side effect is the induction of aggression. In the current study, we report on a young adult who engaged in high rates of pica maintained by automatic reinforcement. Blocking pica, however, led to aggression. When redirection to an alternative preferred food item was added to an intervention consisting of response b...

A 38-year-old man presented with a dissecting aneurysm of the left proximal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) manifesting as Wallenberg's syndrome. The patient was treated by endovascular occlusion of the aneurysm and parent artery. Immediately after the treatment, the PICA territory was supplied by collateral circulation via the ipsilateral anterior inferior cerebellar artery. Seven ...

Die Universitätsbibliothek Groningen arbeitet im PICA-Verbundsystem für Bibliotheksautomatisierung mit, das 1969 von der Königlichen Bibliothek in Den Haag und einigen Universitätsbibliotheken errichtet worden ist Die ÜB Groningen hat zuerst die Katalogisierung automatisiert. Das Katalogisierungsverfahren findet im Rahmen des gemeinsam automatisierten PICA-Verbundkatalogs statt. Etwa 70 bis 80 ...

The plasma from many vertebrates contains a component that specifically binds and inhibits carbonic anhydrase II with nanomolar affinity. Amino-terminal sequencing of pICA, the previously identified 79-kDa carbonic anhydrase inhibitor isolated from porcine plasma [Roush, E. D., & Fierke, C. A. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 12536-12542], and sequencing of four proteolytic fragments of pICA revealed th...

Wildlife-vehicle collisions are one of the main causes mortality for wild mammals and birds in UK. Here, using a dataset 54,000+ records collated by citizen science roadkill recording scheme between 2014–2019, we analyse present temporal patterns wildlife 19 most commonly reported taxa UK (84% all roadkill). Most (13 out 19) showed significant consistent seasonal variations road fitted two patt...

Following Baxter's method of producing Q 72-operator, we construct the Q-operator of the root-of-unity eight-vertex model for the crossing parameter η = 2mK N with odd N where Q 72 does not exist. We use this new Q-operator to study the functional relations in the Fabricius-McCoy comparison between the root-of-unity eight-vertex model and the superintegrable N-state chiral Potts model. By the c...

We conducted functional analyses of the pica of 3 participants. The pica of 1 participant appeared to be maintained by automatic reinforcement; that of the other 2 participants appeared to be multiply controlled by social and automatic reinforcement. Subsequent preference and treatment analyses were used to identify stimuli that would complete with the automatic function of pica for the 3 parti...