Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZSSBIR) aims at retrieving natural images given free hand-drawn sketches that may not appear during training. Previous approaches used semantic aligned sketch-image pairs or utilized memory expensive fusion layer for projecting the visual information to a low-dimensional subspace, which ignores significant heterogeneous cross-domain discrepancy between hi...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic inflammatory disease of unknown aetiology. It is a multisystem disease characterized by spontaneous remissions and relapses. Certain organs are affected more commonly than others. Some patients have very mild disease, whereas others present with serious, lifethreatening complications. In this report 3 adolescent girls presented with variable manif...

Estimation of flooded area in the Bahr El-Jebel basin using remote sensing techniques M. A. H. Shamseddin, T. Hata, A. Tada, M. A. Bashir, and T. Tanakamaru Water Management and irrigation institute, University of Gezira, P.O. Box 20, Wad Medani, Sudan Dept. of Food Systems and Field Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe 657-8501, Japan Faculty of Agri...

Linear and geometric regression equations were used to estimate liveweight of two hundred eighty six semi-intensively managed West African Dwarf (WAD) goats from Chest girth (CG) Wither height (WH) measurements. CG accounted for 52 58% variation in the using linear respectively, thus showing a curvilinear relationship. WH 31% both equations. measurement was found be more reliable estimating WAD...

Infants and child under-five years' morbidity and mortality trends, due to several causes, reflect a country level of socioeconomic development and quality of life. The aim of this study is to identify the factors related to infant~ and child mortality in Wad-Medani Children Teaching Hospital in central Sudan. It investigated the relationship between the demographic and socioeconomic factors an...

PURPOSE To explore rehabilitation professionals' opinions about the influence and the pathways of injury compensation (IC) on health and disability in patients with whiplash associated disorder (WAD). METHODS Semi-structured interviews were performed among a purposeful selected sample of Dutch expert-professionals in the field of rehabilitation of patients with WAD. Inclusion continued until ...

BACKGROUND Patients are free to choose conventional or Korean medicine treatment under the dual medical system in Korea, and the prevalence of patients who choose Korean medicine treatment for whiplash-associated disorders (WADs) is high. This study analyzed the sociodemographic characteristics and medical service use in this population to provide healthcare providers with basic usage informati...

An extracellular polysaccharide was purified from culture supernatants of Capnocytophaga ochracea 25, a gram-negative bacillus associated with human periodontal disease. The extracellular polysaccharide suppressed in vitro mitogenic responses of murine splenic lymphocytes to concanavalin A and lipopolysaccharide. This suppression wad dose dependent, persisted up to 120 h, and was not caused by ...

Chronic whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) represents a major medical and psycho-social problem. The typical symptomatology presented in WAD is to some extent similar to symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. In this study we examined if the acute stress reaction following a whiplash injury predicted long-term sequelae. Participants with acute whiplash-associated symptoms after a motor veh...