abstract aim and background: evidences show that both negative and positive affects play role in tendency to use substances, giving this issue, the current study was conducted in other to investigate relationships between distress tolerance, negative and positive urgency with severity of dependence and craving in people with substance dependency. methods and materials: the method of this resear...

In this paper we discuss how structural Preferences can be expressed within an LTAG framework on dependancy like structures. We argue that the use of psycholinguistically motivated criteria is useful for building practical parse-ranking applications.

In this work heat flux thermography algorithms are proposed to suppress false indications that appear when testing steel billets with inductive thermography. Not only temperature amplitudes are used for evaluation but also the time dependancy of the temperature profile, different types of cooling rates and signal shape parameters. These new algorithms were tested successfully in a rolling mill....

An original method for an automatic detection of contours in difficult images is proposed. This method is based on a tight cooperation between a multi-resolution neural network and a hidden Markov model-enhanced dynamic programming procedure. This new method is able to overcome the three major drawbacks of the “standard” active contours: initialization dependancy, exclusive use of local informa...

Dooley described patients with frequent manic attacks as being headstrong, selfsufficient, know-it-all types of people who will get the upper hand of the analyst. Gibson noted that while manic-depressive individuals appear remarkably insensitive to interpersonal subtleties on a conscious level, they can be extraordinarily perceptive on a subconscious or unconscious one. He felt that these patie...

Magnetic, Mössbauer, and I.R. studies of nanosize particles of Fe and Co species dispersed in a cage of aluminosilicates structure, in relation to syngas (CO+H2) Fischer Tropsch conversion. The difference in the catalytic activity of such species have shown dependancy on their degree of dispersion. The carbonyl impregnation gave ultra-fine Super Paramagnetic Fe3O4, whereas the nitrate impregnat...

Stick-slip phenomenon is often associated with the control of low velocity motion because of the positional dependancy of friction and negative damping friction that decreases as the motion speed increases. In this paper, smooth low velocity tracking control of a commercial robot joint is demonstrated experimentally using a combination of high gain PID control, fast sampling rate and high posit...