Anthony C. Copeland Mohan M. Trivedi University of California, San Diego Computer Vision and Robotics Research (CVRR) Laboratory Electrical and Computer Engineering Department La Jolla, California 92093-0407 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Abstract. We present an experimental framework for evaluating metrics for the search and discrimination of a natural texture pat...

The substitution of digital representations for analog images provides access to methods for digital storage and transmission and enables the use of a variety of digital image processing techniques, including enhancement and computer assisted screening and diagnosis. Lossy compression can further improve the efficiency of transmission and storage and can facilitate subsequent image processing. ...

Patients with SLE carry an increased risk of infection that account for 11-23% of all hospitalized patients and 50% of all SLE patients develop major infections during the course of their disease. Globally Herpes Zoster has been reported as the most frequent viral infection in SLE patients. We determined the clinical spectrum, disease sequelae and the risk factors associated with the developmen...

BACKGROUND Intramuscular pethidine is routinely used throughout the UK for labour analgesia. Studies have suggested that pethidine provides little pain relief in labour and has a number of side effects affecting mother and neonate. It can cause nausea, vomiting and dysphoria in mothers and can cause reduced fetal heart rate variability and accelerations. Neonatal effects include respiratory dep...

We consider an agent-based model in which two types of agents interact locally over a graph and have a common intolerance threshold τ for changing their types with exponentially distributed waiting times. The model is equivalent to an unperturbed Schelling model of self-organized segregation, an Asynchronous Cellular Automata (ACA) with extended Moore neighborhoods, or a zero-temperature Ising ...

If (Ω,Σ, μ) is a finite atomless measure space and X is a normed space, we prove that the space Lp(μ,X), 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞ is a barrelled space of class א0, regardless of the barrelledness of X. That enables us to obtain a localization theorem of certain mappings defined in Lp(μ,X). By “space” we mean a “real or complex Hausdorff locally convex space”. Given a dual pair (E,F ), as usual σ(E,F ) denotes...

BACKGROUND Variation in development methods of Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment Instruments has led to inconsistent inclusion of risk factors and concerns about content validity. A new evidenced-based Risk Assessment Instrument, the Pressure Ulcer Risk Primary Or Secondary Evaluation Tool - PURPOSE-T was developed as part of a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded Pressure Ulcer Re...

Background: People with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs) face challenges that include fluctuations in pain, fatigue and flares of disease activity, complex medical regimens, decisions about when to seek clinical help symptoms [1,2]. Evidence suggests levels anxiety depression are higher people IRDs compared the general population [3]. Rheumatology teams report psychologically distressed p...