In our laboratory, human temporal bone specimens from patients who in life have undergone cochlear implantation are routinely processed with the implant in situ, embedded in Araldite, sectioned at 20 µm and serially photographed during cutting, stained with toluidine blue and mounted on glass slides. From the images, two-dimensional and three-dimensional reconstructions can be made and a very a...

A research model and hypotheses explore software user perceptions of privacy, trust, and legal protection in using application software with embedded spyware. Empirical results reveal actual users of software with spyware, versus users of software without spyware, have lower trust perceptions of a software vendor. Further examination of trustworthiness as a multi-dimensional construct, reveals ...

Gait analysis is the methodic measurement and evaluation of all the different factors that affect human locomotion. It can be applied for rehabilitation purposes and lower the risks of injuries. Modern technology has lead to an amount of precise methods of executing gait analysis. The disadvantages with these are that they often are expensive and only available at a few specially built location...

introduction: the quality of education sector is worth considering as this system has a significant effect on the economic growth of the country. this study aimed to determine the quality gap and rank the student’s expectation of educational services provided in shiraz university of medical sciences in 2013. method: this research included two cross-sectional phases. the sample size of both phas...

1Department of Medical Physics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; 2Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Philips-University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; 4Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; and 5Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Jo...

A general-purpose three-dimensional (3D) simulation code IBSIMU for charged particle optics with space charge is under development at JYFL. The code was originally developed for designing a slit-beam plasma extraction and nanosecond scale chopping for pulsed neutron generator, but has been developed further and has been used for many applications. The code features a nonlinear FDM Poisson's equ...

Software visualization tools have so far not taken advantage of the recent advances in multi-dimensional separation of concerns. To integrate the two, it is necessary to define a representation for concerns and concern spaces that fits these tools and can be implemented as a graph. If successful, this will enrich the structure of system models, allowing new kinds of visualizations and ultimatel...

Bertini real is a command line program for numerically decomposing the real portion of a oneor two-dimensional complex irreducible algebraic set in any reasonable number of variables. Using numerical homotopy continuation to solve a series of polynomial systems via regeneration from a witness set, a set of real vertices is computed, along with connection information and associated homotopy func...

New upper and lower bounds are presented for a multi-dimensional generalization of bin pa king alled box pa king. Several variants of this problem, in luding bounded spa e box pa king, square pa king, variable sized box pa king and resour e augmented box pa king are also studied. The main results, stated for d = 2, are as follows: A new upper bound of 2.66013 for online box pa king, a new 14=9 ...

Software quality and reliability can be improved using various techniques during the software development process. One effective method is to utilize software metrics and defect data collected during the software development life cycle and build defect predictors using data mining techniques to estimate the quality of target program modules. Such a strategy allows practitioners to intelligently...