After rising sharply in the 1980s, workers’ compensation costs and benefits declined during the 1990s. The recent decline may reflect, in part, a decline in the availability and adequacy of these benefits. Workers in the second half of their work lives are particularly likely to be affected by these changes. Although workers’ compensation continues to compensate workers for acute short-term inj...

The demand for computer-assisted game study in sports is growing dramatically. This paper presents a practical video analysis system to facilitate semantic content understanding. A physics-based algorithm is designed for ball tracking and 3D trajectory reconstruction in basketball videos and shooting location statistics can be obtained. The 2D-to-3D inference is intrinsically a challenging prob...

Significant socio-economic burden of colonic motility disorders necessitates in-depth analysis of this pathology. Current analysis techniques are based on diameter measurements of colonic lumen on cine-MR images. Interleaved multi-plane acquisition makes it difficult to perform simultaneous measurements on the line of plane intersections due to the out-of-plane motion (OPM) caused by respiratio...

We consider the generalized method-of-case (GMC) inference scheme with fuzzy antecedents, which has been introduced by Da in [1]. We show that when the fuzzy numbers involved in the observation part of the scheme have continuous membership functions; and the t-norm, t-conorm used in the definition of the membership function of the conclusion are continuous, then the conclusion defined by the co...

Blocked designs are useful in experiments. The general minimum lower order confounding (GMC) is an elaborate criterion which was proposed for selecting optimal fractional factorial designs. Zhang and Mukerjee (2009b) extended the GMC criterion to the B-GMC criterion for selecting a 2n−m : 2r design, where 2n−m : 2r denotes a two-level regular blocked design withN = 2n−m runs, n treatment factor...

In this work, we establish some efficient and practical design rules for the implementation of single-channel ultra-high speed (>160-Gbit/s) telecommunication systems based on dense dispersion management. Moreover, we analyze some of actual implementation issues such as slope compensation scenario, junction losses, polarization mode dispersion and chromatic dispersion fluctuations.

This paper describes a motion blur technique which can be applied to rendering fluid simulations that are carried out in the Eulerian framework. Existing motion blur techniques can be applied to rigid bodies, deformable solids, clothes, and several other kinds of objects, and produce satisfactory results. As there is no specific reason to discriminate fluids from the above objects, one may cons...

Agency theory posits that debt-like compensation (such as defined-benefit pensions and other deferred compensation) aligns managerial interests more closely with those of debtholders and reduces the agency cost of debt. Consistent with theory, we find that a higher CEO relative leverage, defined as the ratio of the CEO's inside leverage (debt-toequity compensation) to corporate leverage, is ass...

This paper describes a technique that produces a content-based representation of a video shot composed by a background (still) mosaic and one or more foreground moving objects. Segmentation of moving objects is based on ego-motion compensation and on background modelling using tools from robust statistics. Region matching is carried out by an algorithm that operates on the Mahalanobis distance ...

Motion Compensated Free Breathing Myocardial Perfusion MRI Using Iterative Non Local Shrinkage Yasir Q Mohsin, Sajan Goud Lingala, Edward DiBella, and Mathews Jacob Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa city, IA, United States, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States, Department of Radiology, University of Utah, S.L.City,UT, U...