Orthodox teaching and practice on nutrition and health almost always focuses on nutrients, or else on foods and drinks. Thus, diets that are high in folate and in green leafy vegetables are recommended, whereas diets high in saturated fat and in full-fat milk and other dairy products are not recommended. Food guides such as the US Food Guide Pyramid are designed to encourage consumption of heal...

We proposed an intensity-based morphological pyramid image registration algorithm. This approach utilizes the global affine transformation model, also considering radiometric changes between images. With the morphological pyramid structure, Levenberg-Marquardt optimization, and bilinear interpolation, this algorithm can be implemented hierarchically and iteratively with capability of measuring,...

Pyramid networks have long been proposed for parallel processing. However, when the network contains multiple pairs of source and destination nodes, it is often difficult to use the pyramid efficiently since most of the algorithms try to simultaneously use the apex for each pair of nodes. Therefore, there may exist a severe bottleneck in such circumstances. We propose a Least Level Minimal Rout...

Spatial analysis of salient feature points has been shown to be promising in image analysis and classification. In the past, spatial pyramid matching makes use of both of salient feature points and spatial multiresolution blocks to match between images. However, it is shown that different images or blocks can still have similar features using spatial pyramid matching. The analysis and matching ...

The enhanced pyramid graph was recently proposed as an interconnection network model in parallel processing for maximizing regularity in pyramid networks. We prove that there are two edge-disjoint Hamiltonian cycles in the enhanced pyramid networks. This investigation demonstrates its superior property in edge fault tolerance. This result is optimal in the sense that the minimum degree of the g...

Cats after unilateral bulbar pyramid section showed permanent loss of tactile placing in the contralateral limbs. However, the cats could be trained to place the forelimb following light touch in a conditioning situation with food as a reward. Subsequent unilateral or bilateral cerebral cortical lesions involving sensory and/or motor areas did not abolish this conditioned response. Since these ...

A k-nearest neighbor search algorithm for the Pyramid technique is presented. The Pyramid technique divides d-dimensional data space into 2d pyramids. Given a query point q, we initialize the radius of a range query to be the furthest distance of the k candidate nearest neighbors from q in the pyramid which q is in, then examine the rest of the pyramids one by one. After one pyramid is checked,...

This paper presents a study on the performance of transformed domain features in Devnagari digit recognition. In this research the recognition performance is measured from features obtained in direct pixel value, Fourier Transform, Discrete Cosine Transform, Gaussian Pyramid, Laplacian Pyramid, Wavelet Transform and Curvelet Transform using classification schemes: Feed Forward, Function Fitting...