Chapter 6: Thermal maturity

Chapter 6 Face Recognition in the Thermal Infrared ?

Recent research has demonstrated distinct advantages of using thermal infrared imaging for improving face recognition performance. While conventional video cameras sense reflected light, thermal infrared cameras primarily measure emitted radiation from objects such as faces. Visible and thermal infrared image data collections of frontal faces have been on-going at NIST for over two years, produ...

Chapter 6 Visual Perception

Chapter 6 Wine Fermentation

The molecular biology revolution has brought forth significant new advances with application in microbiological analysis during wine production and storage. For example, traditional methods for microbial strain identification have been mostly supplanted in favor of ribosomal RNA-based methods for speciation of cultured yeast and bacterial populations in wine. Moreover culture-independent molecu...

Print: Chapter 6. Parturition

The last few hours of human pregnancy are characterized by uterine contractions that effect dilatation of the cervix and force the fetus through the birth canal. The myometrial contractions of labor are painful, which is why the term labor pains is used to describe this process. Before these forceful, painful contractions begin, however, the uterus must be prepared for labor. During the first 3...

Chapter 6 Italy

CATI has been widely used in Italian surveys since the 1980s. As a matter of fact telephone interviewing, compared to traditional face-to-face data collection methods, allows to save time and money. It also offers further advantages: better control over the quality of the interview through a centralized facility, continuous monitoring and supervision, and the opportunity to include experiment-l...