Recovering lost part of an image plays a great role in image processing. Inpainting is a technique that helps in recovering lost pixels from an image. From the existing techniques of Inpainting, Exemplar Inpainting is one of the fast and better techniques that help in restoring the lost part of an image. Exemplar based method chooses a patch similar to the lost patch from the known area to fill...

There is abundant literature on how to select and statistically deal with predictors in prediction models. Less attention has been paid to the choice of the outcome. We assessed the impact of different asthma definitions on prevalence estimates and on the prediction model's performances. We searched PubMed and extracted data of definitions used to diagnose childhood asthma (between 6 and 18 yrs...

Among gestures naturally performed by users during communication, pointing gestures can be easily recognized and included in more natural new Human Computer Interfaces. We approximate the eye-finger pointing direction of a user by detecting and tracking, in real time, the 3D positions of the centre of the face and of both hands; the positions are obtained by a stereoscopic device located on the...

Recovering lost part of an image plays a great role in image processing. Inpainting is a technique that helps in recovering lost pixels from an image. From the existing techniques of Inpainting, Exemplar Inpainting is one of the fast and better techniques that help in restoring the lost part of an image. Exemplar based method chooses a patch similar to the lost patch from the known area to fill...

Self-organizing robotic systems are able to accomplish complex tasks in a changing environment through local interactions among individual agents and local environment. If a robot views a target or senses the target according to used sensor, it necessitates information whether this target is already guarded on by any other robot. If not, the robot remains to stay (it starts to guard on and rais...

abstract geopedology is a systematic approach of geomorphic analysis for soil mapping which focuses the field operation mainly on sample area. the purpose of this study is to determine the credibility of generalization of the results of geopedological approach for similar landforms in the borujen region, using diversity and similarity indices in a soil taxonomic hierarchical structure. after a ...

The potential for obtaining a true mass spectrometric protein identification result depends on the choice of algorithm as well as on experimental factors that influence the information content in the mass spectrometric data. Current methods can never prove definitively that a result is true, but an appropriate choice of algorithm can provide a measure of the statistical risk that a result is fa...

The original and modified Mallampati tests are commonly used to predict the difficult airway, but there is controversy regarding their accuracy. We searched MEDLINE and other databases for prospective studies of patients undergoing general anesthesia in which the results of a preoperative Mallampati test were compared with the subsequent rate of difficult airway (difficult laryngoscopy, difficu...

Objective. To acquire more data about the epidemiologic characteristics of constipation in different kinds of populations in China. Methods. Using "constipation" and "China" as search terms; relevant papers were searched from January 1995 to April 2014. Data on prevalence, gender, diagnostic criteria, geographical area, educational class, age, race, and physician visit results were extracted an...