Clustered events are usually deemed as feature when several spatial point processes are overlaid in a region. They can be perceived either as a precursor that may induce a major event to come or as offspring triggered by a major event. Hence, the detection of clustered events from point processes may help to predict a forthcoming major event or to study the process caused by a major event. Neve...

OBJECTIVE The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its Guidelines recommend nations ban the use of misleading terms, such as 'light' and 'mild' on tobacco product advertising, packaging and labelling. Many nations, including the USA, have implemented such bans and some have introduced or passed legislation requiring plain packaging on tobacco products. We previously reported that man...

Nowadays, the use of intelligent control systems to reduce human error is one of the most popularresearch fields. Design and implementation of such controllers requires to actual knowledge of theenvironment conditions. Traffic lights as one of the inputs of intelligent control systems are significant.usually the traffic lights have the various physical structure. also, generally in image proces...

Nowadays, because of the growing numbers of vehicles on streets and roads, the use of intelligent controlsystems to improve driving safety and health has become a necessity. To design and implement suchcontrol systems, having information about traffic light colors is essential. There are the wide variety oftraffic lights in terms of light intensity and color. Therefore it seems that design and ...

A multiscale approach [1] that couples the finite-element method (FEM) and discrete-element (DEM) is employed to model analyse earthquake fault rupture-soil-foundation interaction (FR-SFI) problem. In approach, soil constitutive responses are obtained from DEM solutions of representative volume elements (RVEs) embedded at FEM integration points so as effectively bypass phenomenological hypothes...

objective: the aim of the present study was to compare microtensile bond strengths (μtbs) of glass fiber posts to different parts of intra-radicular dentin using conventional method and one-shot technique under different light intensities. materials and methods: twenty-eight single-rooted teeth were prepared to receive fiber posts: group 1: conventional method at light intensity of 600 mw/cm2; ...

Currently, cancer remains one of the main causes of death. To assist in the fight against this disease, cancer registries are being used. A cancer registry is a systematic, continuous, exhaustive and non redundant collection of data about cancers diagnosed and/or treated in a country or region. The collected data is defined in international standards with common terminologies (e.g., the Interna...

On 12 May 2008, the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake occurred in Sichuan Province, China, triggering thousands of landslides, debris flows, and barrier lakes, leading to a substantial loss of life and damage to the local environment and infrastructure. This study aimed to monitor the status of geologic hazards and vegetation recovery in a post-earthquake disaster area using high-resolution aer...

Earthquake clustering phenomena such as aftershocks, foreshocks, and pairing of mainshocks are prominent and characteristic features of earthquake occurrence. Because the earthquake nucleation process controls the time and place of occurrence of earthquakes, non-linear dependence of nucleation times on stress changes can strongly affect the spatial and temporal patterns of earthquake occurrence...