A Software Development Process for a certain enterprise and/or a certain project will usually integrate elements from a variety of existing process models, comprising generic standards as well as specific development methods. Besides that, change and evolution of business and technology imply change and evolution of development processes. In this paper we propose a Process Framework, which is m...

Dietary patterns are sensitive to differences across socio-economic strata or cultural habits and may impact programing of diseases in later life. The purpose of this study was to identify distinct dietary patterns during pregnancy in the Mid-South using factor analysis. Furthermore, we aimed to analyze the differences in the food groups and in macro- and micronutrients among the different food...

The resolution of a paternity case is presented in which two indirect exclusions were found for the alleged father during routine paternity testing. Genetic studies on family members of the alleged father elucidated the inheritance pattern within the phosphoglucomutase (PGM1) and Duffy (Fy) blood group systems.

Subjects aged 16-64 years (592; 258 men and 334 women), randomly selected from the population of Northern Ireland, kept a 7 d weighed record of all food and drink consumed. Social, personal and anthropometric data were also collected. From the weighed records food consumption was described in terms of forty-one food groups. Using principal components analysis, four distinct dietary patterns wer...

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A network early warning system consists of several distributed sensors to detect malicious network activity. The effectiveness of such early warning systems critically depends on the sensor deployment strategy used. We therefore analysed attack patterns of malicious software collected at sensors worldwide to determine an optimal deployment strategy. Our results show that due to the small number...

Artery and vein (AV) classification of retinal images is a key to necessary tasks, such as automated measurement of arteriolar-to-venular diameter ratio (AVR). This paper comprehensively reviews the state-of-the art in AV classification methods. To improve on previous methods, a new Local Binary Pattern-based method (LBP) is proposed. Beside its simplicity, LBP is robust against low contrast an...

Many of our most common diseases are complex disorders, run in families, but they lack the simple inheritance patterns characteristics of single gene disorders. Complex diseases have low heritability compared to single gene disorders. Understanding the genetic factors underlying common disorders is a difficult but critical task because each genetic and environmental factor can contribute toward...

This paper benchmarks the simple Local Binary Pattern (LBP) approach in the supervised texture segmentation problems of the recent comparative study of Randen and Husøy. A multi-predicate version of LBP is proposed, making our approach even more powerful for images containing textures at multiple scales.

Recent developments in face analysis showed that local binary patterns (LBP) provide excellent results in representing faces. LBP is by definition a purely gray-scale invariant texture operator, codifying only the facial patterns while ignoring the magnitude of gray level differences (i.e. contrast). However, pattern information is independent of the gray scale, whereas contrast is not. On the ...