background: it has been suggested that nutrition might play a role in the etiology of multiple sclerosis (ms). however, dietary patterns associated with ms risk are unknown. this study was conducted to compare the dietary patterns of patients with ms and healthy controls to find the relationship between dietary patterns and ms. methods: usual dietary intake of 75 women with relapsing/remitting ...

This paper discussed an object-oriented design for general game using C# and XNA using design pattern. We presented application of structural patterns, creational pattern and behavioral pattern to create game sprite, manage game state and game sprites, different collision and rewards among sprites or between sprites and map; we also discussed how to apply design patterns to handle communication...

Product lines can improve the efficiency of software development. Product lines offer reference architecture for the development of similar products. This architecture is developed in an evolutionary process while using existing systems and reusable components. The start of the development of product lines very often is based on the reengineering and generalization of several similar existing a...

This paper presents an experimental system capable of recognizing forms and printed characters positioned on cylindrical objects in an industrial application. Forms are classified with structural pattern recognition methods while characters are recognized with a hybrid classifier utilizing both statistical and structural information. Training of form and character classifiers is performed using...

An application of the syntactic method to recognition of electrocardiogram (ECG) and to the measurement of ECG parameters is presented. Solutions to the subproblems of primitive pattern selection, primitive pattern extraction, linguistic representation, and pattern grammar formulation are given. Attribute grammars are used as the model for the pattern grammar because of their descriptive power,...

Function-Described Graphs (FDGs) have been introduced as a representation of an ensemble of Attributed Graphs (AGs) for structural pattern recognition and a distance measure using restrictions between AGs and FDGs has been reported. Nevertheless, in real applications, AGs can be distorted by some external noise, and therefore some constraints have to be relaxed. To gain more flexibility and rob...

In many pattern recognition tasks we may be interested in asking questions about the behavior of sequences of observations on a particular random vector. Given that we have observed the sequence of feature vectors x1, x2, ..., xi, at i discrete points in time, for example, how likely is it that x will take the value xi+1 at time i+1. We may be interested in asking questions about the behavior o...

interface, 2abstract predicate, 11, 14isStorable, 14isValidKey, 9isValidRec, 9isValidTable, 11abstract predicates, 9Access Layer, 7, 11, 33accessor method, 12Adapter design pattern. See designpattern