Understanding tie strength in social networks, and the factors that influence it, have received much attention in a myriad of disciplines for decades. Several models incorporating indicators of tie strength have been proposed and used to quantify relationships in social networks, and a standard set of structural network metrics have been applied to predominantly online social media sites to pre...

We present a new system to measure the position and force parameters most relevant to violin bowing technique. It is stable and reliable, and as it allows players to perform without impediment and consists of minimal equipment, it is also suitable for use in professional performance settings. This measurement system, implemented on a carbon fiber bow, relies on an electromagnetic field sensing ...

Semantic Indexing Task (SIN) Run No. Run ID Run Description infMAP (%) 1 F A IUPR-DFKI 1 Fisher Kernel + SVMs 2.86 2 F A IUPR-DFKI 2 Color Correlogram + SVMs 5.38 3 F A IUPR-DFKI 3 Fisher Kernel fused with Color Correlograms + SVMs 5.0 4 F A IUPR-DFKI 4 Fisher Kernel + kNN 0.71 Content-based Copy Detection (CCD) Run No. Run ID Run Description Opt.NDCR 1 *iupr-dfki.fsift F-SIFT+BoW+HE+EWGC 0.776...

Field-aligned beams are known to originate from the quasi-perpendicular side of the Earth’s bow shock, while the diffuse ion population consists of accelerated ions at the quasi-parallel side of the bow shock. The two distinct ion populations show typical characteristics in their velocity space distributions. By using particle and magnetic field measurements from one Cluster spacecraft we prese...

background: congenital heart disease (chd) is the most common congenital anomaly in newborns. this study was performed to determine the live birth incidence of chd by ethnicity and sex in gorgan, northern iran. methods: in this longitudinal, hospital-based study, 18162 live births in dezyani hospital in gorgan, north of iran, were screened for chd, from 2007 through 2009. clinical examination, ...

This study contributes to the understanding of how social mortality patterns are reproduced across generations by documenting associations of women's marital status at childbirth in the beginning of last century with selected health indicators across three subsequent generations of their offspring, and by highlighting a special set of plausible mechanisms linked to this particular event in hist...

OBJECTIVE To assess level of contamination of neckwear worn by gynaecologists and obstetricians during routine working week. DESIGN Multicentre randomised double blind crossover trial. Participants wore the same conventional ties for three days in one week and bow ties for the same period in second week. SETTING Two teaching and three district general hospitals in the midlands, Wales, and n...

This study aimed to investigate movement accuracy of experienced cellists, the statistical properties of their note sequences during a reciprocal task, and the degree to which these movement characteristics depend on auditory feedback. Nine experienced cellists were asked to shift alternately between two notes using only their index finger to make contact with the string and fingerboard. Shifti...

background: closure of patent ductus arteriosus (pda), ventricular septal defect (vsd) and atrial septal defect (asd) can be done surgically or by device. this study was designed to compare the total cost of surgical or device closures of pda, asd or vsd for iranian patients. methods: this is a cross-sectional study, conducted from january 1, 2005 until january 1, 2006 in two large heart center...