BACKGROUND The eyebrow and eyelid are important sexually dimorphic and ethnic features of the face. In cosmetic surgery, maintenance of these landmarks is important to obtaining satisfactory results. OBJECTIVES The authors quantify the dimension and position of the eyebrow and eyelid in South Indians and Malaysian South Indians and assess whether significant differences exist between the sexe...

This paper investigates the role that air–sea interaction processes may play in interannual variability of south-eastern African summer rainfall. The principal spatial modes of south-eastern African summer rainfall are first identified using principal component analysis. Four modes are retained. The most important mode of variability is found to represent rainfall variability over most of the d...

Commonly used vocabulary in Indian language documents found on the web contain a number of words that have Sanskrit, Persian or English origin. However, such words may be written in different scripts with slight variations in spelling and morphology. In this paper we explore approximate string matching techniques to exploit this situation of relatively large number of cognates among Indian lang...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. It is a multi-factorial disease and several studies have demonstrated that the genetic factors play a major role in CAD. Although variations in cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) gene are reported to be associated with CAD, this gene has not been studied in South Indian populations. Hence we eva...

Detailed case histories of seven Coloured South Africans with multiple sclerosis are presented; the summary of one South African-born Indian is included. Apart from an isolated case report in 1947, this is the first time that multiple sclerosis has been reported in detail in this South African racial group. All the Coloured patients presented for the first time during the last 12 years.

conclusions the hindi version of the abc scale demonstrated acceptable measurement properties, showing that abc-h can be used for assessing balance confidence in hindi-speaking, community-dwelling indian older adults. it can be an assessment tool either for clinical management or research. results the normative value of abc-h total score observed in the indian older population (n = 100) was 71%...

The working module of any Optical character Recognition system almost depends upon printing and paper of the input document image. A number of OCR techniques are available and claim correctly identified accuracy in printed document image in Indian and foreign script. A few report have been found on the recognition of the degraded Indian language document. The degradation in any scanned printed ...

Machine translation system is software designed that essentially takes a text in one language (called the source language) and translates it into another language (called the target language). This paper presents the state of the art in the field of machine translation. First part of this paper discusses the machine translation systems for non-Indian languages and second part discusses the mach...