1 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, 2 Frontier Lifeline Hospitals, Chennai , India, 3 Stem Cell Facility, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India, 4 SRM Institute for Medical Sciences, Chennai India, India, 5 The Mary-Yoshio Translational Hexagon (MYTH), Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM), Chennai, ...

Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is a recently developed, short-term treatment for patients with a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of multiple trauma. NET can be applied very successfully in patients with complex trauma complaints (Jongedijk, 2014; Schauer, Neuner, & Elbert, 2011). An important feature of NET is that trauma processing is never an isolated event but is always em...

Video query systems have been used increasingly for both business and personal applications. Many applications for video data involve stationary cameras, resulting in a stable background and moving objects in the foreground. The movements of these objects can be extracted to form lifelines using techniques such as those developed in our lab. Our current task is to organize these lifelines and t...

Lifelines are essential to urban life as they include all kinds of facilities and systems as water, gas, fuel, power, communication and transportation. The scope of this paper is to evaluate the influence of the uncertainties of seismic load and damage state definition in system’s reliability. At first, a rapid pre-estimation of the reliability of the system just after the earthquake is conduct...