This year, the Computer Vision Group at University of Central Florida participated in two tasks in TRECVID 2004: High-Level Feature Extraction and Story Segmentation. For feature extraction task, we have developed the detection methods for “Madeleine Albright”, “Bill Clinton”, “Beach”, “Basketball Scored” and “People Walking/Running”. We used the adaboost technique, and has employed the speech ...

This study is aimed at exploring a framework to develop change climate in social systems based on strategic approach. The methodology of the case was qualitative. potential participations included managers and specialists management Shiraz University Medical Sciences who were selected using purposive sampling standard type. Qualitative data collected semistructured interview with area universit...

rofessor Werner Felix Dutz (Figure 1), an Austrian pathologist, joined the faculty of the School of Medicine of Shiraz University in southern Iran in 1959. He and his wife, Dr. Elfriede Kohout, also a pathologist, had come to Iran for only a two-year appointment at an academic institution in a Third World Country, to meet the existing requirements for eligibility of immigrant status in the U.S....

1Clinical Microbiology Research Centre, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received : 10/10/02; accepted: 21/09/03 ABSTRACT An outbreak of measles due to secondary vaccine failure prompted this investigation into the prevalence of measles antibody in children. We studied 608 children in 7 different age groups: 6, 9, 14 and 18 months and 6, 10 and 15 years. ...

OBJECTIVES Uncorrected hypernatremia in organ donors has been associated with poor graft or patient survival during liver transplants. However, recent studies have found no association between the donor serum sodium and transplant outcome. This study sought to show the negative effect donor hypernatremia has on initial liver allograft function. This is the first study to investigate internation...

This paper describes the INEX 2004 participation of the Informatics Institute of the University of Amsterdam. We completely revamped our XML retrieval system, now implemented as a mixture language model on top of a standard search engine. To speed up structural reasoning, we indexed the collection’s structure in a separate database. We address three research questions. First, we investigate the...

We present the results of Michigan’s participation in DUC 2004. Our system, MEAD, ranked as one of the top systems in four of the five tasks. We introduce our new feature, LexPageRank, a new measure of sentence centrality inspired by the prestige concept in social networks. LexPageRank gave promising results in multi-document summarization. Our approach for Task 5, biographical summarization, w...

background breast cancer is still considered as one of the most common female cancers worldwide regardless of the countries’ level of development. this study determines the incidence of breast cancer in fars province, southern iran. methods this study used patients' records from shiraz university of medical sciences cancer registry centre, which is a hospital-based registry of nemazee hosp...