background: there is a great amount of literature concerning the effect of racial segregation on health outcomes but few papers have discussed the effect of segregation on the basis of social, demographic and economic characteristics on health. we estimated the independent effect of segregation of determinants of socioeconomic status on infant mortality in iranian population. methods: for measu...

in this paper the problem of 3d scene and object classification from depth data is addressed. in contrast to high-dimensional feature-based representation, the depth data is described in a low dimensional space. in order to remedy the curse of dimensionality problem, the depth data is described by a sparse model over a learned dictionary. exploiting the algorithmic information theory, a new def...