Terrestrial laser scanning broadens its application areas in civil engineering, and claims even more attention in engineering survey. The paper shows the results of a laboratory test of a laser scanner. The laboratory test involved complex 3D accuracy analysis, reflectivity investigation of different colors and materials used at construction sites and observation of reflection angles. Instead o...

Recent advances in neuroimaging technologies have allowed ever more detailed studies of the human brain. The combination of neuroimaging techniques with genetics may provide a more sensitive measure of the influence of genetic variants on cognitive function than behavioural measures alone. Here we present a review of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of genetic links to execu...

The advent of large scale multimedia databases has led to great challenges in content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Even though CBIR is considered an emerging field of research, however it constitutes a strong background for new methodologies and systems implementations. Therefore, many research contributions are focusing on techniques enabling higher image retrieval accuracy while preserving l...

BACKGROUND Gc protein is the precursor for Gc protein-derived macrophage activating factor (GcMAF), with three phenotypes: Gc1f, Gc1s and Gc2, based on its electrophoretic mobility. The difference in electrophoretic mobility is because of the difference in its posttranslational sugar moiety composition. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared the difference between Gc protein and GcMAF electrophore...

Service-based applications have been attracting a lot of attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Therefore, as these applications need to operate in a highly dynamic and distributed world, they should adapt their behavior to ensure the expected functionality and quality. Many adaptation techniques have been proposed so far focusing on a single layer of the SBA life-cycle. In ...

Pancreatic serous cystadenomas are uncommon benign tumours that are often found incidentally on routine imaging examinations. Radiological imaging techniques alone have proven to be suboptimal to fully characterize cystic pancreatic lesions. Endoscopic ultrasound, with the addition of fine-needle aspiration in difficult cases, has showed greater diagnostic accuracy than conventional imaging tec...

We show how machine perception techniques can allow people to use their own bodies to control complex virtual representations in computer graphic worlds. In contrast to existing solutions for motion capture, tracking people for virtual avatars or intelligent interfaces requires processing at multiple levels of resolution. We apply active perception techniques and use visual attention to track a...

Although cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is touted as the predominant approach in sex offender-specific group treatment, a review of the field shows that the “behavioral” part of CBT has become minimal in relation to that which is cognitive. The authors show how a revitalized “behavioral sensibility” may help to enhance group treatment by focusing greater attention on directly observable beh...

Green technology has drawn a huge amount of attention with the development of the modern world. Similarly with the development in communication technology the industries and researchers are focusing to make this communication as green as possible. In cellular technology the evolution of 5G is the next step to fulfil the user demands and it will be available to the users in 2020. This will incre...

The integration of distributed renewable energy sources and the multi-domain behaviours inside the cyberphysical energy system (smart grids) draws up major challenges. Their validation and roll out requires careful assessment, in term of modelling, simulation and testing. The traditional approach focusing on a particular object, actual hardware or a detailed model, while drastically simplifying...