Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a DNA virus that infects the liver as primary target. Currently, a high affinity receptor for HBV is still unknown. The dendritic cell specific C-type lectin DC-SIGN is involved in pathogen recognition through mannose and fucose containing carbohydrates leading to the induction of an anti-viral immune response. Many glycosylated viruses subvert this immune surveillanc...

There are as many sign languages as there are deaf communities in the world. Linguists have been collecting corpora of different sign languages and annotating them extensively in order to study and understand their properties. On the other hand, the field of computer vision has approached the sign language recognition problem as a grand challenge and research efforts have intensified in the las...

Sign language recognition (SLR) can provide a helpful tool for the communication between the deaf and the external world. This paper proposed a component-based vocabulary extensible SLR framework using data from surface electromyographic (sEMG) sensors, accelerometers (ACC), and gyroscopes (GYRO). In this framework, a sign word was considered to be a combination of five common sign components, ...

Traffic sign recognition is a difficult task if we aim at detecting and recognizing signs in images captured from unfavorable environments. Complex background, weather, shadow, and other lighting-related problems may make it difficult to detect and recognize signs in the rural as well as the urban areas. We employ discrete cosine transform and singular value decomposition for extracting feature...

Observations of both Ethernet traffic and variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic have demonstrated that these traffics exhibit “self-similarity” and/or infinit l e asymptotic index of dispersion for counts (IDC). We report here on measurements of traffic an a commercialpublic broadband network where similar characteristics have been observed. For the purpose of analysis and dimensioning of the c...

Sign language recognition is to provide an efficient and accurate mechanism to transcribe sign language into text or speech. State-of-the-art sign language recognition should be able to solve the signer-independent continuous problem for practical applications. A divide-and-conquer approach, which takes the problem of continuous Chinese Sign Language (CSL) recognition as subproblems of isolated...

Hand gesture recognition system plays a vital role in our day to day life. This hand gesture recognition system provides us natural, innovative, user friendly way of interaction with the computer which is more familiar to us. Gesture recognition has a wide area of application including human machine interaction, sign language, game technology robotics etc. There are different static hand gestur...

The aims of the present study are: a) to investigate how children of average ages 6 and 8 segment a musical piece during real-time listening, b) to compare children’s indicated segment boundaries with boundaries obtained by the segmentation of the piece by adults (musicians and nonmusicians), and c) to compare the adults’ and children’s segmentation profiles to the structural boundaries predict...