Local Binary Patterns and various derivatives of the method have been widely used in the field of texture recognition over the past 15 years. A restriction of these methods is their variance with respect to affine transformations of an image. This is caused by the fixed circular neighborhood and the fixed support area of sampling points. The main approach to deal with affine transformations suc...

Extrapolating across scales is a critical problem in ecology. Explicit mechanistic models of ecological systems provide a bridge from measurements of processes at small and short scales to larger scales; spatial patterns at large scales can be used to test the outcomes of these models. However, it is necessary to identify patterns that are not dependent on initial conditions, because small scal...

Objective: This study investigated the role of family communication patterns, including consensual, pluralistic, protective and laissez-faire, on Internet addiction. Methods: A total of 230 Jahrom Medical University students (120 females and 110 males) answered the questionnaires of the study. The samples were selected based on the random cluster sampling method. In this research, we used Youn...