In this article, we describe the information geometrical understanding of the belief propagation decoder, especially of the turbo decoding. The turbo decoding was proposed by Berrou et al. early in 90’s, and many studies have been appeared on this practical and powerful error correcting code. Even though many experimental results support the potential of the turbo decoding, there is not suffici...

This paper describes a method to nd initial estimates of face location in an image where the orientation and viewpoint of the faces are not known. Features such as eyes, nose and mouth are detected from the image using quadrature phase lters and grouped into potential face candidates. AAne invariants are used in grouping to overcome the problem of variation in viewpoint. An eecient searching al...

Introduction: Violence is associated with individuals’ health and occupational safety and for many jobs, workplace violence represents a serious occupational hazard. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the reasons for violence from the viewpoint of hospital administrative support staff and to determine the steps necessary to eliminate or reduce this problem. Materials and Methods: ...

student evaluation of the quality of instruction is considered as one of the most widely used methods for assessing faculty in universities. this study aimed to identify and compare faculty and students' views about the evaluation system of the quality of faculty teaching in 2011-2012 in ilam university of medical sciences. in this descriptive – analytical study, statistical population was incl...

the western symbolism that characterized in france at the late nineteenth century invaded the arabic modern literature and had great effect on development of its forms and genres especially on the theater. actors arose in arab world take principles of symbolism in their productions among them ali oqla orsan who is truly master of writing, presenting and criticism of theater in syria. his symbol...

ion Level Coherence Layer Business layer Aspects Behavior Capability-based planning with TOGAF and ArchiMate 86 Figure 28: Concepts and relationships in the Capability Motivation Viewpoint The Capability Motivation Viewpoint (shown above in Figure 28) focuses on the relationship of capability with business strategy and the different elements that motivate it. The included elements of driver, me...

In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...