Reengineering legacy software systems to object oriented platforms has received significant attention over the past few years. In this paper, we propose a goal driven software migration framework that aims to identify and extract a quality object model from a procedural system and to generate quality object oriented code that produces a platform for network-centric application integration. The ...

Reflection Transformation Imaging has proved to be a powerful method to acquire and represent the 3D reflectance properties of an object, displaying them as a 2D image. Recently, Polynomial Texture Maps (PTM), which are relightable images created from a set of photos of the object taken under several different lighting conditions, have been used in Cultural Heritage field to document and virtua...

Coordinate metrology aims to answer two questions: whether a manufactured part meets design tolerance specifications and how well the manufactured part meets the specifications. Existing methods for analyzing measured coordinate data are not adequate or effective for parts of complex tolerance zones. This paper presents a new approach to dimensional qualification of manufactured parts. In this ...

Reengineering legacy software systems to object oriented platforms has received significant attention over the past few years. In this paper, we propose a goal driven software migration framework that aims to identify and extract a quality object model from a procedural system and to generate quality object oriented code. The framework is composed of analysis tools, transformation rules, and no...

OBJECTIVE Despite the magnitude of the problem of catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSIs) in children, relatively little research has been performed to identify effective strategies to reduce these complications. In this study, we aimed to develop and evaluate effective catheter-care practices to reduce pediatric CA-BSIs. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Our study was a multi-institution...

The quick advance in remote sensing technologies provides the ability to acquire high quality metric information. This is achievable by forming the relationship between image coordinates and ground coordinates as 2D and 2D-to3D transformation models. Most of these models are based on point features. Although point-based transformation models are well developed, it is time-consuming and costly t...

In this paper we present a flexible framework for parametric speech analysis and synthesis with high quality. It constitutes an extended source-filter model. The novelty of the proposed speech processing system lies in its extended means to use a Deterministic plus Stochastic Model (DSM) for the estimation of the unvoiced stochastic component from a speech recording. Further contributions are t...