We analyze the alignment of the low multipoles (quadrupole and octupole) of various maps of the WMAP 5yr release: the CMB maps obtained with ILC and MCMC methods, the CMB map in the V band after foreground reduction, and, for comparison, the (not cleaned) V band map. We study how much this alignment is polluted by residuals on the Galactic region. Among the considered maps, the WMAP-ILC turns o...

The alignment of observed and modeled behavior is a crucial problem in process mining, since it opens the door for conformance checking and enhancement of process models. The state of the art techniques for the computation of alignments rely on a full exploration of the combination of the model state space and the observed behavior (an event log), which hampers their applicability for large ins...

Existing bidirectional model transformation (BX) languages are mainly state-based: model alignment is hidden inside update propagating procedures, and model deltas are implicit. Weaving alignment with update propagation complicates the latter and makes it less predictable and less manageable. We propose to separate concerns and consider two distinct operations: delta discovery (alignment) and d...

The paper suggests a framework for achieving alignment between a process and its external and internal environment. The framework consists of two components. The first component concerns alignment between the process and its external environment business environment in which the process functions or is to function. The second component concerns alignment between the process and its internal env...

The main purpose of this work is the comparison of several objective functions for optimization of the vertical alignment. To this end, after formulation of optimum vertical alignment problem based on different constraints, the objective function was considered as four forms including: 1) the sum of the absolute value of variance between the vertical alignment and the existing ground; 2) the su...

Face alignment, which fits a face model to an image and extracts the semantic meanings of facial pixels, has been an important topic in the computer vision community. However, most algorithms are designed for faces in small to medium poses (yaw angle is smaller than 45◦), which lack the ability to align faces in large poses up to 90◦. The challenges are three-fold. Firstly, the commonly used la...

background: according to clinical observations, foot hyperpronation is very prevalent and may cause malalignment of the lower extremity, leading to structural and functional deficits in standing and walking. this study aimed at investigating the effect of foot hyperpronation on spine alignment in the standing position.   methods: thirty-five healthy males with an age range of 18-30 years partic...

Point cloud data acquisition with laser scanners provides an effective way for 3D as-built modeling of a construction site. Due to the limited view of a scan, multiple scans are required to cover the whole scene, and a registration process is needed to merge them together. The aim of this paper is to introduce a novel method that automatically registers colored 3D point cloud sets without using...