This paper describes a method for detection, tracking and recognition of lower arm and hand movements from color video sequences using a linguistic approach driven by motion analysis and clustering techniques. The novelty of our method comes from (i) automatic arm detection, without any manual initialization, foreground or background modeling, (ii) gesture representation at different levels of ...

The methods for preventing earthquake-induced structural pounding between two adjacent buildings include ensuring a sufficient separation distance them or decreasing their relative displacement during seismic excitation. Some equations even specific values of such gap sizes have been introduced so as to avoid collisions. Increasing the stiffness buildings, using tuned mass dampers, applying liq...

A 50 year old male with obstructive sleep apnea developed de novo, daily, intense, continuous, left side pounding headache with superimposed stabbing pains, fluctuating in severity. Headache was associated with ptosis of the left eye, left hypoglossal palsy and eventual tongue hemiatrophy, in the absence of papilledema. His Brain and neck imaging procedures (MRI, MRA, MRV) and a left temporal a...

Collapsing building structures during recent earthquakes, especially in Northern and Eastern Kurdistan, including the 2003 earthquake Cewlig; 2011 Van; 2017 near Halabja province, has raised several concerns about safety of pre-seismic code buildings emergency facilities Erbil city. The seismic vulnerability assessment hospital as is one necessities which have a critical role recovery period fo...

Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the effect soil type on buildings experiencing floor-to-column pounding during earthquakes. Five with 4-storeys, 6-storeys, and 7-storeys were considered. Three types 4-storey building different total heights taken into account which leads at 1/3, 1/2 2/3 height impacted column. Two scenarios considered, i.e. between 6-storey (three cases when co...

Seismic pounding occurs as a result of lateral vibration and insufficient separation distance between two adjacent structures during earthquake excitation. This research aims to evaluate the stochastic behavior of adjacent structures with equal heights under earthquake-induced pounding. For this purpose, many stochastic analyses through comprehensive numerical simulations are carried out. About...

CONTEXT Many patients have palpitations and seek advice from general practitioners. Differentiating benign causes from those resulting from clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia can be challenging and the clinical examination may aid in this process. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the accuracy of historical features, physical examination, and cardiac testing for the diagnosis of cardi...