In this article we compare 14 distance measures and their modifications between feature vectors with respect to the recognition performance of the principal component analysis (PCA)-based face recognition method and propose modified sum square error (SSE)-based distance. Recognition experiments were performed using the database containing photographies of 423 persons. The experiments showed, th...

Altered trunk muscle reflexes have been observed in patients with low back pain (LBP). Altered reflexes may contribute to impaired postural control, and possibly recurrence of LBP. Specific stabilization exercise (SSE) programs have been shown to decrease the risk of LBP recurrence in a select group of patients with acute, first episode LBP. It is not known if trunk muscle reflex responses impr...

The role of damping in the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) was studied experimentally for the first time. The experiments used Y3Fe5O12 (YIG)/Pt bilayered structures where the YIG films exhibit very similar structural and static magnetic properties but very different damping. The data show that a decrease in the damping gives rise to an increase in the SSE coefficient, which is qualitatively consiste...

Efficiently tracing randomly distributed rays is a highly challenging problem on wide-SIMD processors. The MBVH (multi bounding volume hierarchy) is an acceleration structure specifically designed for incoherent ray tracing on processors with explicit SIMD architectures like the CPU. Existing MBVH traversal methods for CPUs target 4-wide SIMD architectures using the SSE instruction set. Recentl...

Grammatical evolution (GE) is one of the newest among computational methods (Ryan et al., 1998), (O’Neill and Ryan, 2001). Basically, it is a tool used to automatically generate Backus-Naur-Form (BNF) computer programmes. The method's evolution mechanism may be based on a standard genetic algorithm (GA). GE is very often used to solve the problem of a symbolic regression, determining a module's...

Gaussian filtering is a basic operation commonly used in numerous image and volume processing algorithms. It is, therefore, desirable to perform it as efficiently as possible. Over the last decade CPUs have been successfully extended with several SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) extensions, such as MMX, 3DNow!, and SSE series. In this paper we introduce a new technique for Gaussian filte...

Slow slip events (SSEs) are another mode of fault deformation than the fast faulting of regular earthquakes. Such transient episodes have been observed at plate boundaries in a number of subduction zones around the globe. The SSEs near the Boso Peninsula, central Japan, are among the most documented SSEs, with the longest repeating history, of almost 30 y, and have a recurrence interval of 5 to...

Expert system technology provides a new opportunity for organising and systematising the available knowledge and experience in the structural selection domain. Computerisation, in general, and expert system technology, in particular, can provide assistance for the engineers by giving much greater access to information, knowledge and expertise and by processing this information. This paper prese...

The accuracy of the secondary structure element (SSE) identification from volumetric protein density maps is critical for de-novo backbone structure derivation in electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM). It is still challenging to detect the SSE automatically and accurately from the density maps at medium resolutions (∼5-10 Å). We present a machine learning approach, SSELearner, to automatically iden...

This study examines whether changing the reporting location of OCI from the Statement of Changes in Equity (SSE) to a combined Income Statement or a separate Statement of Comprehensive Income (SCI), as required by Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 201105, has affected the value relevance of OCI. Using manually collected data, we find that the value relevance of OCI decreased for firms that chang...