Shock waves, high-energy sound or pressure waves (like thunder following lightening or a small, focused explosion), have little to do with electric shock. Shock waves can be generated in many ways, but electrohydraulic devices have the greatest capacity to produce and project high energy to a deep focal depth. ESWT can be highly focused and can achieve a focal point beyond 10 cm into deeper tis...

My lightening visit to the Wilton Park conference on "Women Targeted by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers?" last Wednesday was a real eye-opener. Since this trip was sandwiched between International Peacekeeping Day [1] on Thursday and Tuesday's release of a new report by Save the Children UK [2] showing that girls and boys in conflict-affected countries such as Sudan, the Ivo...

The quest for a whiter shade of pale dates back to ancient civilizations, when a pale complexion was associated with aristocratic lineage. During the Tang dynasty (618-907), Chinese women used ground pearl powder as a whitening make-up. In ancient Persia, field workers bleached their skin with pure natural hydroquinone to keep it from darkening under the sun. In Europe, during the Renaissance, ...

In this project we study selecting of robust method to detect and recognize stop signs in an urban area. To tackle this problem we tries three different method, and the experiment showed that the two of the tree methods are promising to continue working on. The first method was HAAR features combined with Decision Trees which didn’t work well in tests. The second approach was using HOG with log...

Algebraic geometry is a mixture of the ideas of two Mediterranean cultures. It is the superposition of the Arab science of the lightening calculation of the solutions of equations over the Greek art of position and shape. This tapestry was originally woven on European soil and is still being refined under the influence of international fashion. Algebraic geometry studies the delicate balance be...

We investigated the inhibitory effects of hesperidin on melanogenesis. To find melanosome transport inhibitor from natural products, we collected the structural information of natural products from Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) and performed pharmacophore-based in silico screening for Rab27A and melanophilin (MLPH). Hesperidin did not inhibit melanin production in B16F10 murine mela...

Human face detection plays an important role in many applications such as face recognition , human computer interface, biometrics, area of energy conservation, video surveillance and face image database management. The selection of accurate color model is the first need of the face detection. In this paper, a study on the various color models for face detection i.e. RGB, YCbCr, HSV and CIELAB a...