Object tracking in real time videos is a critical task .So far many algorithms have been proposed to overcome the difficulties which arises from noise, occlusions and changes in the foreground object. But still there is a need for an efficient algorithm that can effectively track the object due to its varying position under various ambient conditions. Among various tracking methods, the mean sh...

Diets eliminating animal products have rarely been associated with hypothyroidism but may protect against autoimmune disease. Thus, we investigated whether risk of hypothyroidism was associated with vegetarian compared to omnivorous dietary patterns. The Adventist Health Study-2 was conducted among church members in North America who provided data in a self-administered questionnaire. Hypothyro...

A great deal of information is available about social, economic and political factors that can affect people’s food choice but little research has been done on the effects of new cultural environments on migrants’ food habits. Those studies which have been conducted on immigrants in Britain have concentrated mainly on people under stress or with serious health problems, whereas little is known ...

In describing the two dietary patterns identified in this manuscript, the authors reported that the variation in food intake explained by these dietary patterns amounted to 84 % (paragraph 2 of Results, p4). This was the common variance shared by all foods entered into the dietary pattern analysis; whereas the total variance in food intakes explained by the patterns was 13 % (Western dietary pa...

Despite the increasing use of dietary patterns (DP) to study diet and health outcomes, relatively few studies have examined the reliability of DP using different dietary assessment methods. Reduced-rank regression (RRR) is an emerging statistical method that incorporates a priori information to characterise DP related to specific outcomes of interest. The aim of the present study was to compare...

• High-level and Process Patterns from the Memory Protection Society. James Noble and Charles Weir. In Pattern Languages of Program Design 4. Neil Harrison, Brian Foote and Hans Rohnert, editors. Addison-Wesley, 1999. • Patterns for Small Machines. James Noble and Charles Weir. Proceedings of the European Conference on Pattern Languages of Program Design, Irsee, Germany. Universitäts Verlag Kon...

OBJECTIVE Adequate consumption of fruits and vegetables is a part of recommendations for a healthy diet. The aim of the present study was to assess acute cumulative dietary exposure to organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides via fruit and vegetable consumption by the population of schoolchildren aged 11-12 years and the level of risk for their health. DESIGN Cumulative probabilistic risk as...

We present a novel Affine-Gradient based Local Binary Pattern (AGLBP) descriptor for texture classification. It is very hard to describe complicated texture using single type information, such as Local Binary Pattern (LBP), which just utilizes the sign information of the difference between pixel and its local neighbors. Our descriptor has three characteristics: 1) In order to make full use of t...

Face image retrieval is an important issue in the practical applications such as mug shot searching and surveillance systems. However, it is still a challenging problem because face images are fairly similar due to the same geometrical configuration of facial features. In this paper, we present a face image retrieval method which is robust to the variations of face image condition and with high...

Multicast is an efficient paradigm for transmitting data from a sender to a group of receivers. The IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs standards specify how to send multicast frames with no ACK and using one of the Basic Service Set (BSS) rates. This situation has led many researchers to design techniques aiming to improve reliability of a multicasting mechanism. The Leader-Base Protocol (LBP) is one su...