Advances in communication devices and technologies are dramatically expanding our communication capabilities and enabling a wide range of multimedia communication applications. The current approach to develop communication-intensive applications results in products that are fragmented, inflexible and incapable of responding to changing end-users’ communication needs. These limitations have resu...

The present study aimed to provide a version of the Cervical Vertebral Maturation (CVM) method for the detection of the peak in mandibular growth based on the analysis of the second through fourth cervical vertebrae in a single cephalogram. The morphology of the bodies of the second (odontoid process, C2), third (C3), and fourth (C4) cervical vertebrae were analyzed in six consecutive cephalome...

Extracellular recordings were made in the right nucleus ambiguus of urethane-anesthetized rats from 33 neurons that were activated at constant latency from the craniovagal cardiac branch. Their calculated conduction velocities were in the B-fiber range (1.6-13.8 m/s, median 4.2), and most (22/33) were silent. Active units were confirmed as cardiac vagal motoneurons (CVM) by the collision test f...

The existing multi-label support vector machine (Rank-SVM) has an extremely high computational complexity due to a large number of variables in its quadratic programming. When the Frank–Wolfe (FW) method is applied, a large-scale linear programming still needs to be solved at any iteration. Therefore it is highly desirable to design and implement a new efficient SVM-type multi-label algorithm. ...

We recently developed a collagen vitrigel membrane (CVM) chamber possessing a scaffold composed of high-density collagen fibrils. In this study, we first confirmed that the advantage of CVM chamber in comparison to the traditional culture chamber with porous polyethylene terephthalate membrane is to preserve a culture medium poured in its inside even though the under side is not a liquid phase ...

Concern over the presence of veterinary drug residues in food has been increasing world wide. Because of this concern the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has been involved on an international basis in efforts to develop food safety standards for veterinary drugs. The major thrust of the Codex Committee on Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods (CC/RVDF) has be...

This paper presents the results of a qualitative in-depth study to investigate if and how our previously proposed Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors (CVM) can support practitioners in assessing the quality of HCI design alternatives. The results of the study underline the epistemic value of CVM in cross-cultural system design processes. The metaphors have not only helped participants organize their t...

The preceeding four chapters contain the views of economics scholars whose own research has been focused on the development of the CVM; their interests and expertise in (with) the method was reflected in our repeated references in Part I to their earlier works. As stated in Chapter I, the breadth of our assessment of the CVM is greatly enhanced by looking also to outstanding scholars whose rese...

This paper derives asymptotic approximations to the power of Cramer-von Mises (CvM) style tests for inference on a finite dimensional parameter defined by conditional moment inequalities in the case where the parameter is set identified. Combined with power results for Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) tests, these results can be used to choose the optimal test statistic, weighting function and, for test...

This study investigates whether or not the scale bias found in contingent valuation (CVM) studies on mortality risk reductions is a result of cognitive constraints among respondents. Scale bias refers to insensitivity and non near-proportionality of the respondents’ willingness to pay (WTP) to the size of the risk reduction. Two hundred Swedish students participated in an experiment where their...