BACKGROUND Although fall prevention studies for the elderly have been reported, there is a paucity of work summarizing the effectiveness of these interventions. OBJECTIVES The research question that guided this study was: 'What are the effects of fall prevention programs on the proportion of falls in the elderly?" METHOD Meta-analysis was employed to summarize findings of intervention studi...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of  patch therapy on visual acuity in adults with ametropic amblyopia. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed on 66 patients with unilateral ametropic amblyopia aged 9 to 35 years reffered to a clinic in shahroud. the patients were randomly assigned to two groups. in the treatment group, based on the visual acuity of the amblyopic eye, 3-6 hours da...

Painting style transformation aims to produce a painting in a particular artist’s style from a picture or other paintings. In the previous implementations of example-based painting style transfer, users had to manually select the patches from example patches. It is time-consuming and subjective for a user to select proper patches from a large number of patches. This paper develops a patch-based...

I challenge (1) the assumption that habitat patches are natural units of measurement for species richness, and (2) the assumption of distinct effects of habitat patch size and isolation on species richness. I propose a simpler view of the relationship between habitat distribution and species richness, the ‘habitat amount hypothesis’, and I suggest ways of testing it. The habitat amount hypothes...

This article presents a detailed implementation of the Non-Local Bayes (NL-Bayes) image denoising algorithm. In a nutshell, NL-Bayes is an improved variant of NL-means. In the NLmeans algorithm, each patch is replaced by a weighted mean of the most similar patches present in a neighborhood. Images being mostly self-similar, such instances of similar patches are generally found, and averaging th...

Wildland fire use (WFU) is a tool that has been utilized by managers in the Forest Service since the 1970s to reintroduce fire as a natural ecosystem process. Today it is also applied to meet additional resource objectives including restoration and maintenance of ecosystems and fire hazard reduction through lessening the extent and severity of future fires. Few studies have characterized the sp...