Facial age estimation is an important yet very challenging problem in computer vision. To improve the performance of facial estimation, we first formulate a simple standard baseline and build much strong one by collecting tricks pre-training, data augmentation, model architecture, so on. Compared with baseline, proposed significantly decreases errors. Moreover, long-tailed recognition has been ...

The Logic of Approximate Entailment (LAE) is a graded counterpart of classical propositional calculus, where conclusions that are only approximately correct can be drawn. This is achieved by equipping the underlying set of possible worlds with a similarity relation. When using this logic in applications, however, a disadvantage must be accepted; namely, in LAE it is not possible to combine conc...

The Logic of Approximate Entailment (LAE) is a graded counterpart of classical propositional calculus, where conclusions that are only approximately correct can be drawn. This is achieved by equipping the underlying set of possible worlds with a similarity relation. When using this logic in applications, however, a disadvantage must be accepted; namely, in LAE it is not possible to combine conc...

Background Both American and European guidelines on the management of arterial hypertension advise that an electrocardiogram (ECG) be routinely performed in all patients with arterial hypertension. The ECG may demonstrate evidence of left atrial enlargement (LAE), which has adverse prognostic implications in hypertension. We sought to determine the accuracy of 5 ECG criteria of LAE in a hyperte...

Recent European guidelines have emphasized the association of vegetation size with embolic risk in endocarditis (1). On these grounds, left-sided vegetations >1 cm, and right-sided vegetations >2 cm are considered to be an indication for surgery. In this issue of iJACC, investigators from the MEDIC (Multicenter Electrophysiologic Device Cohort) registry report the importance of vegetation size ...

Echocardiography is commonly performed as a screening test to evaluate perioperative risks before kidney transplantation. However, only limited data are available on echocardiographic parameters of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) and left atrial enlargement (LAE) on acute coronary syndrome and mortality in kidney transplant recipients. We reviewed 2779 adult recipients who underwe...

OBJECTIVES To show that echocardiographic left atrial enlargement (Echo-LAE) and electrocardiographic left atrial abnormalities (ECG-LAA) may be probable new risk factors for ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. METHODS This descriptive prospective case study included 140 CT or MRI-confirmed hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke patients, who were admitted to Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, Iraq from...

Myosin VI is a processive myosin that has a unique stepping motion, which includes three kinds of steps: a large forward step, a small forward step and a backward step. Recently, we proposed the parallel lever arms model to explain the adjacent binding state, which is necessary for the unique motion. In this model, both lever arms are directed the same direction. However, experimental evidence ...

Functional biomarkers like large artery elasticity (LAE) and small artery elasticity (SAE) may predict cardiovascular disease (CVD) events beyond blood pressure. The authors examined the prognostic value of LAE and SAE for clinical CVD events among 6,235 Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis participants who were initially aged 45-84 years and without symptomatic CVD. LAE and SAE were derived f...