This paper proposes a unified probabilistic framework for real-time depth map fusion. By modeling the depth imaging process as a random experiment, the depth map fusion is converted into probability density function (pdf) estimation. The depth fusion problem is decoupled into four parts: the fusion space, the influence term, the visibility term and the confidence term. We combine these four ter...

with demand for health services continuing to grow as populations age and new technologies emerge to meet health needs, healthcare policy-makers are under constant pressure to set priorities, ie, to make choices about the health services that can and cannot be funded within available resources. in a recent paper, smith et al apply an influential policy studies framework – kingdon’s multiple str...

This research endeavors to integrate theory from several research streams in order to propose a framework for research into the common situation where organizations make sequential decisions with multiple relevant goals and multiple possible actions where the goals, actions, and decision context display dynamic characteristics in relation to environmental and decision contexts. Goal-driven deci...

Background: HIV/AIDS control are one of the most important goals of the health systems. The aim of this study was to determine how HIV/AIDS control was initiated among policy makers’ agenda setting in Iran.   Methods: A qualitative research (semi-structured interview) was conducted using Kingdon’s framework (problem, policy and politics streams, and policy windows and policy...

In response to a nationwide rise in obesity, several states have passed legislation to improve school health environments. Among these was Arkansas's Act 1220 of 2003, the most comprehensive school-based childhood obesity legislation at that time. We used the Multiple Streams Framework to analyze factors that brought childhood obesity to the forefront of the Arkansas legislative agenda and resu...

In this paper we discuss a new automatic speech recognition ASR approach based on the inde pendent processing and recombination of several feature streams In this framework it is assumed that the speech signal is represented in terms of multiple input streams each input stream representing a di erent characteristic of the signal If the streams are entirely synchronous they may be accommodated s...