Heel strike detection is an important cue for human gait recognition and detection in visual surveillance since the heel strike position can be used to derive the gait periodicity, stride and step length. We propose a novel method for heel strike detection using a gait trajectory model, which is robust to occlusion, camera view and to low resolution which can generalize to a variety of surveill...

We describe a case of bilateral basal ganglia hemorrhage after a lightning strike to the head documented by a CT scan. Review of the literature shows this to be the most common brain imaging finding that can be attributed to a lightning strike. Several mechanistic theories are discussed, with the most plausible one being related to preferential conduction pathways through the brain.

[1] On Venus a 1000-km-long, 50to 200-km-wide, anastomosing shear zone system (Thetis Boundary Shear Zone (TBSZ)) separates the eastern Ovda and northwestern Thetis Regiones. Previous workers mapped a part of this shear zone and interpreted it as a sinistral strike-slip shear zone containing an extensional jog. In the present study it is reexamined for a detailed structural and kinematic analys...

KRASHNA: STRIKE NOW by Dave McCarthy At yesterday a f te rn o o n ’s anti-war rally on the main quad SBP Dave Krashna called for a general b o y co t t o f classes. Dir­ ecting his a t tack no t only against the war bu t also against racism, sexism, and militarism, Krashna cited the Cambodian expansion as the “ ca ta lyst” prom pting him to propose the boyco tt . He implored the people o f Notr...

This paper improves the price-performance ratio of ECM, the elliptic-curve method of integer factorization. In particular, this paper constructs “a = −1” twisted Edwards curves having Q-torsion group Z/2× Z/4, Z/8, or Z/6 and having a known non-torsion point; demonstrates that, compared to the curves used in previous ECM implementations, some of the new curves are more effective at finding smal...