Abstract Background The wrinkles and grooves present on the sulci labiorum of human lips form characteristic patterns. As previous authors claimed, these can be used for personal identification in forensic cases because they are unique, permanent, classifiable. Many scientists had devised different systems to classify lip prints (Suzuki Tsuchihashi, Martin Santos, Renaud, Afchar Bayar, Jose Mar...

Learning to quantify (a.k.a. quantification) is a task concerned with training unbiased estimators of class prevalence via supervised learning. This originated the observation that “Classify and Count” (CC), trivial method obtaining estimates, often biased estimator, thus delivers suboptimal quantification accuracy. Following this observation, several methods for learning have been proposed sho...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition that affects the correct functioning of motor system in human body. Patients exhibit reduced capability to produce facial expressions (FEs) among different symptoms, namely hypomimia. Being so hard be detected its early stages, automatic systems can created help physicians assessing and screening patients using basic bio-markers. In this...

Competencies are behaviors that some people master better than others, which makes them more effective in a given situation. Considering entrepreneurship translates into behaviors, the competency-based approach expresses attributes necessary generation of such with greater precision. By virtue dynamic and complicated nature entrepreneurial phenomena and, especially, numerous data sets variables...

OBJECTIVE The diagnosis of insufficiency fractures of the sacrum in an elder population increases annually. Fractures show very different morphology. We aimed to classify sacral insufficiency fractures according to the position of cortical break and possible need for intervention. METHODS Between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2014, all patients with a proven fracture of the sacrum followin...

Gene expression is controlled by the concerted interactions between transcription factors and chromatin regulators. While recent studies have identified global chromatin state changes across cell-types, it remains unclear to what extent these changes are co-regulated during cell-differentiation. Here we present a comprehensive computational analysis by assembling a large dataset containing geno...