Computational techniques are highly used in medical image analysis to aid the medical professionals. Glaucoma is a sight threatening retinal disease that needs attention at its early stages, though it does not reveal any symptoms. Glaucoma is identified usually through cup to disc ratio and ISNT rule. This work involves segmentation of blood vessels, segmentation of optic disc through proposed ...

College students, especially women, demonstrated negativity toward math and science relative to arts and language on implicit measures. Group membership (being female), group identity (self female), and gender stereotypes (math male) were related to attitudes and identification with mathematics. Stronger implicit math male stereotypes corresponded with more negative implicit and explicit math a...

OBJECTIVE Nightmares are a robust and modifiable predictor of increased suicidality and poor psychiatric outcomes, yet nightmare screening and treatment remain rare, even in sleep centers. This paper aims to examine what proportion of nightmare sufferers have discussed nightmares with a healthcare provider, as well as possible explanations for low rates of nightmare complaints. METHODS The pr...

But the Lord came down to see. .. the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ''Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do;. .. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.''. .. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all th...

When not performing a task, we are usually engaged in a variety of thoughts, for instance about current problems, opportunities, our self-image, our relationships, about past experiences, and about plans for the future. Such mind wandering was found to occupy almost half of our time spent awake (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Mind wandering may have had the evolutionary advantage of better a...

The study sought to explain remedial learners’ attitude towards English language using three variables: gender, age and locus of control. Three properly validated instruments were used to collect data on the relevant variables from 385 remedial English learners randomly selected from 5 remedial education centers in Ibadan, Nigeria. Data analysis involved the use of multiple regression to explai...

Is public opinion a beloved but unreal myth like the unicorn? Or a thing out there in the garden like an elephant, of which sight-impaired, competing methodologists measure different parts? Or a fuzzy set of probabilities like the electron, both wave and particle, perhaps of inherently uncertain location? Or does it include all of the above? ...If we want to measure public opinion, we need to d...

In many real-world probabilistic reasoning problems, one of the questions we want to answer is: how many objects are out there? Examples of such problems range from multitarget tracking to extracting information from text documents. However, most probabilistic modeling formalisms — even firstorder ones — assume a fixed, known set of objects. We introduce a language called Blog for specifying pr...