Accurate segmentation and evaluation of the anatomical and pathological features of retinal vessels are critical for the diagnosis and study of many ocular diseases. These include retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). ROP is a disorder of the retinal blood vessels that is a major cause of vision loss in premature neonates. It is proposed a methodology for extracting the vascular network in the huma...

This study investigates the acoustic correlates of the distinction between primary and secondary stress in English in accented and unaccented morphologically complex words that are either left-prominent or right-prominent (e.g. "violate vs. vio"lation). In both accented and unaccented words, the position of primary and secondary stress significantly influences F0, intensity, and spectral bala...

I service-oriented application development, quickly producing a solution is not too hard as long as the architects and developers have a clear architecture as a governing principle. How to make sure your solution is better than others in terms of quality and time-to-market is a big challenge we are facing nowadays. The quality-aware aspects should be effectively refl ected in the modeling of in...

To cover promising research topics, TKDE has kept a tradition of organizing and publishing special issues in a timely manner. We published a special issue on Mining Biological Data in the August 2005 issue, and another special issue on Intelligent Data Preparation in the September 2005 issue. Meanwhile, to maintain the health of TKDE's current publication queue and to avoid negative impact on t...

Two new electrostatic devices were developed to manage greenhouse insect pests. One was an catcher (EIC) trap small flying pests, and the other arc-discharge zapper (ADZ) kill larger insects emerging from soil beds. The EIC consisted of negatively charged insulated conductor plates (NIPs) grounded (GCPs), which alternately arrayed in parallel at defined intervals. ADZ had same framework as EIC,...

Registration is the process of adding a vehicle to the Motor Vehicle Register and issuing it registration plates. Vehicle licensing is the payment of a fee for the use of a motor vehicle on public roads. In recent times, it has been observed that a reduction in Nigerian government internally generated revenue is in part a result of the evasion of automobile vehicle property and usage taxes by i...

The plan for "e-Government", and the need to facilitate interactions between citizen and Public Administration, make find in the electronic identity card EIC one of the most important means to access network services in a secure way. There are five inspiring principles: ??security for the complete lifecycle of the card from production of the physical support to initialisation, emission and its ...

Wiley's Internet Technology Letters was born to provide an answer contemporary scientists always rushing behind topics that evolve more rapidly than ever before. Indeed, in the context of technologies, new paradigms replace old ones year by and, some cases, month month. Today's cutting edge topics, including 6G and quantum communications, could be replaced shortly with a wave technologies are j...

Understanding fundamental properties of nucleons and nuclei are among the most important scientific goals next-generation machine, Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). With unprecedented versatility provided by EIC, it will provide answers to many standing puzzles open questions in modern nuclear physics. One golden measurements at EIC is coherent vector meson production electron-nucleus (eA) scatterin...