Hotelling’s T two sample test based on Bookstein coordinates or Kendall coordinates has been applied to test the difference between two groups of shape configurations. While this method has several advantages, some empirical evidences have shown that it is sensitive to the variation and correlation within landmarks and the selection of baseline. It is typical to select the two landmarks that fo...

Background and Aims: Most children get a lot of anxiety while they visit a dentist. The most important factor in the child's fear at the beginning of treatment is the syringe and needle. Ways to cope with this anxiety include behavioural control techniques such as mental regeneration, distraction, and induction. The purpose of this study was to compare the pain and anxiety in children when usin...

We study the eμ + Emiss T and l l + Emiss T signatures (l = e, μ) for different values of tanβ in the mSUGRA model. With tanβ rising, we observe a characteristic change in the shape of dilepton mass spectra in ll +Emiss T versus e μ final states reflecting the decrease of χ̃02 → llχ̃1 branching ratio. We also study the non mSUGRA modifications of the CMS test point LM1 with arbitrary relations am...

This paper gives an overview of shape dissimilarity measure properties, such as metric and robustness properties, and of retrieval performance measures. Fifteen shape similarity measures are shortly described and compared. Their retrieval results on the MPEG-7 Core Experiment CE-Shape-1 test set as reported in the literature and obtained by a reimplementation are compared and discussed.