UNLABELLED  Traditional wound tracing technique consists of tracing the perimeter of the wound on clear acetate with a fine-tip marker, then placing the tracing on graph paper and counting the grids to calculate the surface area. Standard wound measurement technique for calcu- lating wound surface area (wound tracing) was compared to a new wound measurement method using digital photo-plan...

Funding by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes) and the Technology Industries of Finland Centennial Foundation is kindly acknowledged. This paper relates to the ongoing 'Nanotechnology and the renewal of Fin-nish industries' (NANOREF) project. I also wish to thank Christopher Palmberg for valuable comments and Mika Pajarinen for help with the data. ABSTRACT: Nanotech...

Within undergraduate Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction is often considered a blend of user-centered requirements analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. While most are teachable within the constraints of a conventional undergraduate lecture course, design is much more difficult to pass on. We know that design-oriented programs (e.g., arts, industrial design, and architecture...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effect of using electronic short story books and traditional printed texts on efl learners’ reading comprehension. for that purpose, ninety female learners ranging in age between fifteen and thirty five sat for the language proficiency test (pet, 2009) as the test of homogeneity and consequently sixty students were selected based on t...

Reviews of training and treatment programs employing lay per sonnel as " helpers" yield provocati ve findings. While there now are numerous nonprofession al training programs, only a few have system atically assessed their effects in terms of therapeutic process variables, and fewer still have pr esented systematic compa risons of the differential effects of lay and professional training (4, 5)...

SemiBoost [23] is a boosting framework for semi-supervised learning, in which unlabeled data as well as labeled data both contribute to learning. Various strategies have been proposed in the literature to perform the task of selecting useful unlabeled data in SemiBoost. Recently, a multi-view based strategy was proposed in [20], in which the feature set of the data is decomposed into subsets (i...

DFD have to be transmitted to the receiver, a well designed video coder should balance the bits used in these two A new motion field representation based on the boundarycontrol vector (BCV) scheme for video coding is examined in parts. Other factors of consideration in video coder design this work. With this scheme, the motion field is characterized include computational cost, hardware complexi...

The field of adaptive systems is rapidly andsurely becoming part of the mainstream. Eversince the advent of Amazon, intelligent person-alization is steadily becoming an integral part ofcommercial systems and services. At the sametime, progress in other aspects of computing ishaving a major impact on research efforts in thearea: web 2.0 technologies are redefining wha...