Abstract Past findings on the connection between class position and political preferences are overwhelmingly derived from cross-sectional studies, which provided a limited basis for inferring causality. This study uses long-term panel data thousands of British respondents to measure impact intra-generational mobility across range identities preferences. Upward leads small increases in economic ...

In this paper, we present the speaker diarization system which is used in personal video recordings. Speaker diarization begins by the extraction of relevant features from the input signal. Features are measurable characteristics which are important to the distinction between different classes. They should have low inter-class similarity and also low intra-class variability. So, LDA is used to ...

New network applications which involve transmission of continuous media data such as au dio and video conferencing introduce immense challenges for the design of packet switching internetworks Existing ow and congestion control mechanisms have been shown to be ine ec tive for supporting the real time requirements of continuous media data transfers We propose a novel bandwidth regulation mechani...

In this paper the unfairness problems in wireless 802.11 LAN are researched and studied via simulation. The contributions are twofold. First of all, the intra-class fairness of the EDCA queues for downlink streams, in the presence of bidirectional traffic is investigated. Secondly, Active Queue Management schemes are evaluated as an possible improvement for the intra-class fairness. The simulat...

Ultrasound-based shear wave elastography (SWE) has recently gained substantial attention for non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis. The purpose of this study was to perform an intra-individual comparison between 2-D shear wave elastography (2-D-SWE with a GE system) and Virtual Touch Tissue Quantification (VTTQ with a Siemens system) to assess whether these can be used interchangeably to gr...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to translate the Trunk Control Measurement Scale into a Korean version and to analyze the intra- and inter-rater reliability. [Subjects and Methods] Fifteen children with spastic cerebral palsy and four physical therapists with over 10 years of clinical experience participated in this study. A Korean-American physical therapist translated the trunk contro...

background: the accuracy and reproducibility of measurements in a locally made three dimensional (3d) simulator was assessed and compared with manual caliper measurements. materials and methods: a total of 20 casts were scanned by our laser scanner. software capabilities included dimensional measurements, transformation and rotation of the cast as a whole, separation and rotation of each tooth ...

background: research supports that in vitro fertilization causes anxiety and that anxiety can continue into the resulting pregnancy. most women who have ivf will have a less invasive treatment for infertility prior to ivf; however, it is unclear if specific less invasive treatment cycles impact anxiety that is experienced in the pregnancy resulting from ivf. methods: a prospective study was con...

In multiclass object classification, a key element is to design a robust identification of relevant class specification in presence of intra-class variations. However, this is a difficult problem due to high variability of visual appearance within each class. One possible approach is to adaptively combine a set of diverse and complementary features-such as features based on color, shape-in orde...