Title : An optimization method for elastic shape matching. Applications to forensic facial reconstruction. Abstract : Shape morphing or matching arises in a wide variety of situations in areas from biomedical engineering to computer graphics and scientific computing. Beyond the specific stakes to each particular application, the general issue is to find one transformation from a given ‘template...

brought back vivid memorial of my visit there in the autumn of 1977. Although only there for a week I managed to see a great deal, and was much impressed by the spirit and the hospitality of the people I met. Their endurance in the war years and afterwards is legendary, and once again today they are facing a time of great stress, deprivation and uncertainty as to the future. In the light of rec...

In this paper we consider a single-server polling system with switch-over times. We introduce a new service discipline, mixed gated/exhaustive service, that can be used for queues with two types of customers: high and low priority customers. At the beginning of a visit of the server to such a queue, a gate is set behind all customers. High priority customers receive priority in the sense that t...

The purpose of this retrospective study done on 255 AMD patients evaluated at a low vision rehabilitation service was: 1) to describe the visual function characteristics (VFCs) of AMD patients presenting to visual rehabilitation, 2) to document changes in these VFCs between initial and follow-up rehabilitation visits, and 3) to investigate the relationship of the VFCs found at rehabilitation in...

Background and aims: Public sector in Iran is responsible for providing whole primary health care and approximately 85% of the second and third level services. Following the previous programs, and in order to improve health system performance, Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education launched Health Sector Evolution Plan of Iran (HSEP) in 2014 aimed to reduce patients’ ...