In this study we compared several parameters characterizing differences in the lipoprotein profile between members of families with a positive or negative family history of coronary artery disease (CAD). In addition to regular parameters such as the body mass index (BMI), total plasma cholesterol (TC), low density (LDL-C) and high density (HDL-C) cholesterol and triglycerides (TG) we estimated ...

In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of deregulated electricity prices. We begin by examining the distributional and temporal properties of the price process in a non-parametric framework. This analysis is followed by comparing the forecasting ability of several different statistical models. The findings reveal several characteristics unique to electricity prices including determinis...

❚ Received: April 5, 2016 Accepted: June 21, 2016 ❚ Correspondence: Graziamaria Corbi, Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, via De Santis snc, 86100 Campobasso, Italy Tel. +39 087 4404771 Fax +39 087 4404728 E-mail: [email protected] Introduction. Cardiovascular diseases are very prevalent in the elderly population and characterized by high complexity, poo...

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is an emerging and significant research area in the pattern domain. In daily life, role of non-verbal communication significant, overall communication, its involvement around 55% to 93%. analysis efficiently used surveillance videos, expression analysis, gesture recognition, smart homes, computer games, depression treatment, patient monitoring, anxiety, detectin...

To address the problem that features extracted by CNN-based facial expression recognition (FER) do not consider structural information, a region adaptive correlation deep network (RACN) is proposed. The consists of two branches. In one branch, obtained applying CNN to sub-blocks are used as input proposed second-order (SRCN), which obtains adaptively learning regions. Furthermore, they fused wi...

In this paper‎, ‎we study the class of rings in which every $P$-flat‎ ‎ideal is flat and which will be called $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In particular‎, ‎Von Neumann regular rings‎, ‎hereditary rings‎, ‎semi-hereditary ring‎, ‎PID and arithmetical rings are examples of $PFF$-rings‎. ‎In the context domain‎, ‎this notion coincide with‎ ‎Pr"{u}fer domain‎. ‎We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for‎...

Background and aims: Fer kinase is activated by a number of growth factors and cytokines, and phosphorylates cortactin during cell shape change induced cortical actin reorganisation. In addition, Fer participates in cytoskeletal interactions mediated by cadherins, platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule 1 (PECAM-1), and integrins, and has recently been implicated in limiting the innate immu...

Automatic facial expression recognition (FER) is a topic of growing interest mainly due to the rapid spread of assistive technology applications, as human-robot interaction, where a robust emotional awareness is a key point to best accomplish the assistive task. This paper proposes a comprehensive study on the application of histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) descriptor in the FER problem, h...

The waterlogging tolerance and the physiological responses to this stress were tested in seedlings of Fraxinus angustifolia, an ash tree inhabiting riparian forests, and two provenances of the closely related Fraxinus excelsior, one derived from a riparian forest (FER) and one from a mountainous region (FEM). Besides visible damage, physiological parameters reflecting adaptations of plants to w...

Ab stract: Ac cord ing to H. F. Osborn, one of the three au thors of ‘Baldwin ef fect’, adap tive evo lu tion may not re quire nei ther nat u ral se lec tion nor the in her i tance of ac quired char ac ter is tics. An adap tive evo lu tion ary change in pop u la tion with out nat u ral se lec tion means that an iden ti cal adap tive change in ge net i cally dif fer ent or gan isms of a pop u la...