Segmentation of femurs in Anterior-Posterior x-ray images is very important for fracture detection, computer-aided surgery and surgical planning. Existing methods do not perform well in segmenting bones in x-ray images due to the presence of large amount of spurious edges. This paper presents an atlas-based approach for automatic segmentation of femurs in x-ray images. A robust global alignment...

since the jurisprudential traditions have accepted clearly buying & selling the hunter dogs and there is no available jurisprudential traditions about other species of dogs like as flock, garden and..., many of the jurists don't accept the trading and selling of those dogs. but deliberating upon traditions show that the buying & selling of those dogs is correct and there is no problem. in ...

Abstract This paper treats the risk-averse optimal portfolio problem with consumption in continuous time with a stochastic-volatility, jump-diffusion (SVJD) model of the underlying risky asset and the volatility. The new developments are the use of the SVJD model with double-uniform jump-amplitude distributions and time-varying market parameters for the optimal portfolio problem. Although unlim...

This paper treats the risk-averse optimal portfolio problem with consumption in continuous time with a stochastic-volatility, jump-diffusion (SVJD) model of the underlying risky asset and the volatility. The new developments are the use of the SVJD model with double-uniform jumpamplitude distributions and time-varying market parameters for the optimal portfolio problem. Although unlimited borro...

In this paper we propose a logic-based social approach to the specification and verification of agent interaction. We firstly introduce integrity constraints about social acts (called Social Integrity Constraints) as a formalism to express interaction protocols and to give a social semantics to the behavior of agents, focusing on communicative acts. Then, we discuss several possible kinds of ve...

In this paper we revisit the question of whether relative performance-adjusted contracts provide portfolio managers with adequate incentives to gather information. We show that when portfolio managers are constrained in their ability to short-sell, relative performance-adjusted or linear ‘benchmarked’ contracts can provide incentives for gathering more precise information. We also provide condi...

one of the ways of selling products is “direct selling”. the companies which use this method sell their products directly to end users just by their distributors’ intermediation. in this method, distributors retail sell the products out of a fixed commercial location. harmful effect of loading unsold products with distributors had legislators make companies buy-back those products. briefly, we ...