Fingerprint image segmentation is one of the important preprocessing steps in Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS). Segmentation separates image background from image foreground, removing unnecessary information from the image. This paper proposes a new fingerprint segmentation method using Haar wavelet and Kohonen’s Self Organizing Map (SOM). Fingerprint image was decomposed usi...

An investigation was carried out over a year in the village of Chelow, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, to study the efficacy of CDC light traps for sampling malaria vectors. The CDC light traps were useful in determining the seasonal and habitat distribution of Anopheles stephensi and An. fluviatilis, the primary and secondary vectors of malaria, in Chelow, as well as other mosquitoes in tha...

The identification of protein-protein interaction sites is essential for the mutant design and prediction of protein-protein networks. The interaction sites of residue units were predicted using support vector machines (SVM) and the profiles of sequentially/spatially neighboring residues, plus additional information. When only sequence information was used, prediction performance was highest us...

Human detection in camera attract wide interest because of its extensive applications in anomalous incident recognition, counting human being in a crowded area, person classification, and recognition of falling activity for aged people, etc. The paper discuss abnormalities in the human activity and provide efficient solution to detect abnormality. The first step in the proposed work is to captu...

We propose a new approach to the classical detection problem of discrimination of a true signal of interest from an interferent signal, which may be applied to the area of chemical sensing. We show that the detection performance, as quantified by the receiver operating curve (ROC), can be substantially improved when the signal is represented by a multicomponent data set that is actively manipul...

This paper describes a simple rapid staining microcolorimetric method for analytical fibre material identification using colour vectors of stained fibre material photography. The number of morphological characteristics (nM), number of stains (nS), colour information dimensionality (nDC), and picture elementary points number (npx) can play a key role in distinguishing fibre materials, correct id...

The tensors of curvature play an important role in differential geometry. In surface theory (1990), it is determined by the derivative of unit normal vectors of tangent spaces of the underlying surface. However every geometric object in computation is a discrete model. We can only approximate them. In estimating the curvature on polyhedral surfaces, how to approximate normal vectors is a crucia...

The morbidity and mortality of vector-borne diseases is closely linked to exposure of the human host to vectors. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of individual exposure to arthropod bites by investigation of the specific immune response to vector saliva would make it possible to monitor individuals at risk of vectorial transmission of pathogens. The objective of this study was to evaluat...

Notation Vectors are denoted by lower-case bold letters, e.g., x, matrices are denoted by upper-case bold letters, e.g., X and sets are denoted by calligraphic upper-case letters, e.g., X. All vectors are assumed to be column vectors. The (i, j) entry of X is xij . Let {x+i }i=1 be a set of pedestrian training examples and {xj }j=1 be a set of non-pedestrian training examples. The tuple of all ...

Gene replacement therapies utilizing adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors hold great promise for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). A related approach uses AAV vectors to edit specific regions of the DMD gene using CRISPR/Cas9. Here we develop multiple approaches for editing the mutation in dystrophic mdx4cv mice using single and dual AAV vector delivery of a muscle-specific Cas9 casse...