Human faces undergo considerable amount of variations with aging. This variation being experienced in facial texture and shape with different ages of a particular subject makes recognition of faces very difficult. However, most existing Face Recognition Systems (FRS) suffer from high misclassification of faces because of the large variation in face appearances of the same individual due to agin...

Security and reliability issues in distributed systems have been investigated for several years at LAAS using a technique called Fragmentation-Redundancy-Scattering (FRS). The aim of FRS is to tolerate both accidental and intentional faults: the core idea consists in fragmenting confidential information in order to produce insignificant fragments and then in scattering the fragments so obtained...

A general formula for the error-correcting radius of linear-algebraic multivariate interpolation decoding of folded Reed–Solomon (FRS) codes is derived. Based on this result, an improved construction of FRS codes is motivated, which can be obtained by puncturing Parvaresh–Vardy codes. The proposed codes allow decoding for all rates, remove the structural loss in decoding radius of the original ...

The F-recruitment site (FRS) of active ERK2 binds F-site (Phe-x-Phe-Pro) sequences found downstream of the Ser/Thr phospho-acceptor on cellular substrates. Here we apply NMR methods to analyze the interaction between active ERK2 (ppERK2), and a 13-residue F-site-bearing peptide substrate derived from its cellular target, the transcription factor Elk-1. Our results provide detailed insight into ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study is to evaluate the concurrence between Framingham Risk score (FRS) and United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) risk engine in identifying coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in newly detected diabetes mellitus patients and to explore the characteristics associated with the discrepancy between them. METHODS A cross-sectional study involving 489 subjects ...

Our previous study showed that the patients with more metabolic risk factors had higher risk of high ankle-brachial index (ABI), but the relationship between high ABI and the risk of severe cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is still under debate. This study aims to evaluate this association in the general population. 1486 subjects of South China were recruited in the study. 61 subject...

The aims of this study are to determine the prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis in acromegalic patients and to investigate the relationship between the coronary artery calcium score (CS) and acromegaly status and clinical parameters [Framingham risk score (FRS)]. Fifty-six acromegalic patients and paired non-acromegalic volunteers were stratified according to the FRS into low-, intermediate-...

OBJECTIVE To analyze spectral and spatial signatures of high frequency oscillations (HFOs), which include ripples and fast ripples (FRs, >200 Hz) by quantitatively assessing average and peak spectral power in a rat model of different stages of epileptogenesis. METHODS The lithium-pilocarpine model of temporal lobe epilepsy was used. The acute phase of epilepsy was assessed by recording intrac...

BACKGROUND Conflicting data exists regarding relationship between the Framingham risk score (FRS) and presence of metabolic syndrome (MS). Strong influence of age on FRS may further modify this relationship as prevalence of MS at younger age increases in South-Asian countries including India. However, only limited information is available about the prevalence of MS and its relationship with FRS...