The realistic reconstruction of hair motion is challenging because of hair’s complex occlusion, lack of a well-defined surface, and nonLambertian material. We present a system for passive capture of dynamic hair performances using a set of high-speed video cameras. Our key insight is that, while hair color is unlikely to match across multiple views, the response to oriented filters will. We com...

Subtropical south-east Queensland’s expanding population is expected to lead to a demand for an additional 754,000 dwellings by 2031. A legacy of poor housing design, minimal building regulations, an absence of building performance evaluation and various social and market factors has lead to a high and growing penetration of, and reliance on, air-conditioners to provide comfort in this relative...

This field study examines whether and how supervisors’ subjective adjustments to objective performance measures are influenced by their prior subjective evaluations of employees. Evaluations were determined entirely subjectively in the sample internal audit organization in 2005. In 2006, the organization introduced a pay-for-performance incentive plan that established four objective measures of...

In this paper we show some preliminary results of our research in the fieldwork of classification of imbalanced datasets with SVM and stratified sampling. Our main goal is to deal with the clinical problem of automatic intestinal contractions detection in endoscopic video images. The prevalence of contractions is very low, and this yields to highly skewed training sets. Stratified sampling toge...

Background: Learning Management System (LMS) is a web-based system designed to support teaching and learning at an institution. The capabilities of any LMS are required to be evaluated to detect the room for improvement. This study aimed at discovering the students' perceptions of the functions of the LMS at Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS). Methods: This qualitative study included 15...

Since computing power and data storage have become cheaper and more easily available, the number of empirical papers in economics has increased dramatically. Despite the large numbers of empirical papers, however, there is still no unified and machine readable standard for saving regression results: The Open Economics WG would like to fill this gap by proposing and promoting an open standard fo...

In view of the recent advances of communication and information technology along with the growing need for online networking, computer security has become a challenge to almost all the studies that have been carried out in this research axis. So far, various tools and mechanisms have been developed in order to guarantee a safety level up to the requirements of modern life. Among these, intrusio...

Sports performance is generally considered to be governed by a range of interacting physiological, biomechanical, and psychological variables, amongst others. Despite sports performance being multi-factorial, however, the majority of performance-oriented sports science research has predominantly been monodisciplinary in nature, presumably due, at least in part, to the lack of a unifying theoret...

This paper presents a new parallelization method for reductions of arrays with subscripted subscripts on scalable shared-memory multiprocessors. The mapping of computations is based on the connict-free write distribution of the reduction vector across the processors. The proposed method is general, scalable, and easy to implement on a compiler. A performance evaluation and comparison with other...

Agriculture is the single biggest user of land and water in Morocco; however its performances are still low due to high rainfall variation and rates of soil productivity depletion. Increasing concerns about soil and environment quality degradation have raised the need to review existing tillage management systems and develop new systems for seed-bed preparation. Consequently, No-tillage is foun...