An approach and strategy for automatic detection of buildings from aerial images using combined image analysis and interpretation techniques is described in this paper. It is undertaken in several steps. A dense DSM is obtained by stereo image matching and then the results of multi-band classification, the DSM, and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) are used to reveal preliminary bui...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the skeletal and dento-alveolar effects of the Rick-A-Nator appliance in the treatment of growing patients with skeletal Class II malocclusion due to retrusive mandible. Methods: 13 Class II growing patients with mandibular retrusion and between the ages of 9 years and 12 years were selected to be included in this study. Control group for the tr...

A wireless body sensor network (or simply BSN) is a networked collection of wearable (programmable) sensor nodes that can communicate among themselves and also with other smart devices and other ambient sensors [1], [2]. The sensor nodes have computation, storage, wireless transmission, and different sensing capabilities depending on the physical transducer(s) they are equipped with. Common phy...

Intelligent evaluation agent has been the most recent attempt toward automated supplier bid selection based on customer preferences. It has been proven to have advantages for successful supply chain coordination. Based on a formerly implemented real-time supply chain coordination system using intelligent agents, this work further investigates the problem to devise an intelligent fuzzy algorithm...

People express their mental states all the time, even when interacting with machines. These mental states shape the decisions that we make, govern how we communicate with others, and affect our performance. The ability to attribute mental states to others from their behaviour, and to use that knowledge to guide one’s own actions and predict those of others is known as theory of mind or mind-rea...

When the wedding was over, Zarghuna climbed aboard bus, leaving evening's cool breeze for pungent, stuffy air of women's section. All in all, there were about forty them-men, women, and children-returning home from celebrations a neighbouring village. The women sat at front, swathed burqas hiding finery underneath, their faces made up carefully hoarded foundation, bright red lipstick, eyes rimm...

•Drastic transition of bubble dynamics on wettable/non-wettable porous electrodes•Significant change overpotential electrodes•Design guideline for high-performance gas-evolving electrodes Electrochemical reactions play a crucial role in many industrial energy conversion and storage processes. The continuous gas production leads to the evolution bubbles at reaction sites, which further result lo...