finger prints of 68 patients with down's syndrome and 93 controls have been collected and analyzed for topological of formulation of finger tip patterns suggested by loesch (1975). the results showed that there may be great differences in the dictionary of the finger patterns of the patients and their controls. mean lunar and radial patterns showed mostly significant differences among the patie...

background: diabetes is a major risk factor of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease with high mortality. prevalence of diabetes type 2 is increasing in middle eastand iran. in the current study, relationship between major food patterns and diabetes type 2 were assessed. methods: in this case control study, 332 subjects (110 newly diagnosed cases and 222 controls); 43-77 years of age ...

background and objectives: this study was designed to investigate the association between parental behavior and the dietary intake of tehranian preschool children aged 2-6 years. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study conducted on 310 children aged 2-6 years from the kindergartens of 22 districts of tehran, a qualitative validated 85-item food frequency questionnaire was completed by...

exhaust emissions contribute greatly to air pollution, the social cost of which may occur as danger to human health, attracting huge medical expenses, causing absenteeism and hence loss of productivity. these are incentives to reduce exhaust emissions to the barest minimum. two major cities in ghana, accra and kumasi, are struck by vehicular traffic jams especially during rush-hours and are gra...

The purpose of EAM patterns can be seen to supplement existing EAM frameworks, which often only provide generic approaches in implementing, maintaining, and analysing an Enterprise Architecture. This is done by providing additional concepts, tailorable to the EAM problems at hand. This paper extends the existing EAM patterns approach of the Technical University of Munich by defining a concept f...

Despite increased interest in promoting nutrition during pregnancy, the association between maternal dietary patterns and birth outcomes has been equivocal. We examined maternal dietary patterns during pregnancy as a determinant of offspring's birth weight-for-length (WLZ), weight-for-age (WAZ), length-for-age (LAZ), and head circumference (HCZ) Z-scores in Southern United States (n=1151). Mate...

vii 1 Survivable System Concepts 1 2 Service Traces for Survivability Specification 5 2.1 Essential-Service Workflows 5 2.2 Essential-Service Traces 6 2.3 Relational Specification of Trace Components 6 2.4 Computational Survivability 7 3 Intrusion Traces for Adverse Environment Specification 9 3.1 Intruder Workflows Organized Into Attack Trees 10 3.2 Attack Patterns Organized Into Attack Profil...

Disc herniation is a major reason for lower back pain (LBP), it cost the United Kingdom (UK) government over £1.3 million per day. In fact a very high proportion of the UK population will complain from their back pain. Furthermore, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the main diagnosing procedure for LBP. Automatic disc labeling in the MRI to detect the herniation area will reduce the re...

Recently, we have developed a nonparametric approach to texture analysis, in which the distributions of simple texture measures based on local binary patterns and signed gray level differences are used to provide complementary information about the strurctural and stochastic properties of image texture. Very good performance has been obtained in various texture classification and segmentation p...

In this chapter we describe a unifying framework for local binary patterns and variants which we refer to as histograms of equivalent patterns (HEP). In presenting this concept we discuss some basic issues in texture analysis: the problem of defining what texture is; the problem of classifying the many existing texture descriptors; the concept of bag-of-features and the design choices that one ...