We present an approach for recognizing human action from a mobile platform. Three components are essential to our action recognition pipeline. First, a new off-the-shelf active sensor is employed to obtain observations. Next, we use our observables to generate a set of pose-inspired features. Finally, we use these features to obtain a history over actions, with the use of a Hidden Markov Model ...

Sleep behavior is heavily influenced by interactions between circadian and homeostatic mechanisms. These interactions, which have been modeled by Borbely and others, vary across individuals, between the sexes, and among species, and they change across the lifespan. In some species, like us, they typically produce a relatively long sleep bout at one time of day whereas in other species, like rat...

The main objective of this study is to assess the cost benefit associated with comprehensive eye exams as a tool for the early detection of diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. A retrospective, claims-based analysis was performed using U.S.-based employees and spouses from a large, national database. Individuals who received first notification of disease as a result of an eye exam were...

Outline of Expectations for Students: • Schedule a thesis committee meeting for the exam. Scheduling includes finding a date that works for each of your committee members and finding a room to hold the exam in. • Prepare an NIH/NSF style written grant proposal on your thesis project (just the science and bibliography parts – not any of the other forms). While the proposal should include some pr...

This paper proposes a prediction error expansionbased reversible data hiding method using no location map. Though a reversible data hiding method once distorts an image to hide data into the image, the distorted image is completely separated to the original image and the hidden data. The proposed method uses only one parameter to extract data; this method extracts data without any location map,...

background helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection usually occurs during childhood, especially in developing countries. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of h. pylori infection among children in primary schools of rasht, a northern iranian city. methods this cross-sectional study was conducted among 961 primary school students in rasht. samples were randomly selected and st...

Many mathematicians have a dismissive attitude towards paradoxes. This is unfortunate , because many paradoxes are rich in content, having connections with serious mathematical ideas as well as having pedagogical value in teaching elementary logical reasoning. An excellent example is the so-called " surprise examination paradox " (described below), which is an argument that seems at first to be...

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Undergraduate biology education is often viewed as being focused on memorization rather than development of students' critical-thinking abilities. We speculated that open-note testing would be an easily implemented change that would emphasize higher-order thinking. As open-note testing is not commonly used in the biological sciences and the literature on its effects in biology education is spar...

PET/CT plays an important role in the diagnosis, staging and management of many pediatric malignancies. The techniques for performing PET/CT examinations in children have evolved, with increasing attention focused on reducing patient exposure to ionizing radiation dose whenever possible and minimizing scan duration and sedation times, with a goal toward optimizing the overall patient experience...