The most commonly used shape similarity metrics are the sum of squared differences (SSD) and the sum of absolute differences (SAD). However, Maximum Likelihood (ML) theory allows us to relate the noise (differences between feature vectors) distribution more generally to a metric. In this paper, a shape is partitioned into tokens based on its concave regions, invariant moments are computed for e...

Submitted by: Ramachandiran Nandhagopal, MBBS, DM, Abdullah Al-Asmi, MD, FRCPC. From the Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Al-Khod, Muscat, Oman. Address correspondence to: Dr. Ramachandiran Nandhagopal, Consultant Neurologist, Neurology Unit, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, PO Box 35, SQU Al-Khod, Zip 123, Muscat, ...

Salah seorang diantara sahabat Nabi Saw. selain Khulafa'ur Rasyidin yang berempat (Abu Bakar, Umar bin Khattab, Usman 'Affan dan Ali Abi Thalib) dikenal sebagai mufti memberi fatwa hukum adalah Abdullah Mas'ud. Beliau memiliki pandangan luas berpengetahuan komprehensif dalam bidang keagamaan, sehingga fatwa-fatwa diintrodusirnya mendapat epresiasi rujukan penetapan Islam. Latar belakang Ibnu Ma...

sorrow is one of the poetic subjects which is frequent since the ignorance period through elegiac poems which are full of kindness and sad motions. but since the recent & new era in particular since he romanticism era it gains progress in such a way that it does not only appear through the poetic couplets which illustrate an experience of poetic elegical sense, but also it becomes of potential ...

of the City of Hope 11 12 13 *Corresponding author 14 15 Ismail H. Al-Abdullah 16 Department of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Research, 17 Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope 18 1500 E. Duarte Rd, Duarte, CA 91010 19 Tel: 626-256-4673 Ext 60109 20 Fax: 626-256-8704 21 Email: [email protected] 22 23 24 25 Running title 26 27 Human islets from hypernatremic donors 28 29 30 31 32 3...

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Review and Research Available online at www.globalresearchonline.net 138 *NourAl-Abdullah Al-Kafri, **Mohammed Amer AL–Mardini *Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Quality control, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Damascus, Syria. **PhD Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Quality control, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Damascus, Syria. ...

This study discussed colors and their symbolism in Omani poetry, through the phenomenon of man’s interest colors, using them for various expressions, joyful, cheerful, sad. The problem arose that poets use according to perceptions because suggestive original value building poetic image, so poet depends color on specific order, strength its appearance. In most cases, we find is not mentioned wha...

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Systems analysis and design (SAD) is a core part of systems development and the Information Systems curriculum (Gorgone et al, 2002; Bajaj et al, 2004). SAD is a complex process, with many techniques used to understand problems and design solutions. This paper investigates how an agile software development approach may be used for the teaching and learning of SAD. The research reviews and compa...