Conventional screening for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in children involves time-consuming and intrusive facial distance measurements. We are developing an alternative method that will allow automatic measurement of the relevant distances from a pair of stereo photographs, as a screening aid. This paper describes a method for automatic extraction from such photographs of the points on the eyes used ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the choice of electrode placement site in transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) over acupuncture points vs peripheral nerve points influences the peripheral neurophysiological effects as reflected in negative peak latency in the superficial radial nerve, and on sensory changes in terms of peripheral mechanical pain threshold and mechanical pain tole...

BACKGROUND Both Peak Oxygen Uptake (peak VO2), from cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and the distance walked during a Six-Minute Walk Test (6 MWD) are used for following the natural history of various diseases, timing of procedures such as transplantation and for assessing the response to therapeutic interventions. However, their relationship has not been clearly defined. METHODS We de...

Now, we are constructing a City-streets Building Database System. Particularly, we want to use this system to recognize real-world building images and provide the necessery information about the building objects. Because in building image there are many objects, and only the parts of building objects are necessary for recognition, we have developed a method by which all the parts of building ob...

The paper illustrates a method for the design of suitable controllers of chaotic systems characterized by complex peak-to-peak dynamics, namely by a recursive relationship between consecutive peaks (relative maxima) of a scalar output variable. For such systems, a reduced model can be defined which, in general, is a hybrid model composed of a one-dimensional map and a finite-state automaton. Th...

در بحث امدادرسانی به مصدومان بلایای طبیعی و غیرطبیعی، هدف اصلی یک زنجیره این است که اقلام موردنیاز مانند آب مواد غذایی، دارویی، پناهگاه سایر ملزومات سریع‌ترین زمان ممکن در­دسترس قرار بگیرد تا از تعداد مرگ‌ومیر ناشی وقوع بلایا حد امکان کاسته شود؛ بنابراین طراحی توسعه اجرایی­کردن می‌تواند نقش مهم بزرگی دست­‌یافتن پاسخ مناسب ایفا کند. بارزترین تفاوت‌ها برخورد با ، غیرقابل‌پیش‌بینی‌­بودن تقاضا نظر ...

Possible optical setups for measurement of the peak-to-peak value of an ultrasonic transducer are described in this work. The Michelson interferometer with the calibrated nanopositioner in reference path and laser Doppler vibrometer were used for the basic measurement of vibration displacement. Langevin type of ultrasonic transducer is used for the purposes of Electro-Ultrasonic Nonlinear Spect...