INTRODUCTION High plantar pressure is a proven risk factor for ulceration among individuals with diabetes mellitus. The Harris and Beath footprinting mat is one of the tools used in screening for foot ulceration risk among these subjects. There are no reports in the literature on the reliability of footprint analysis using print pattern criteria. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluat...

In a process of insect footprint recognition, footprint segments need to be extracted from scanned insect footprints in order to find out appropriate features for classification. In this paper, we use a clustering method in a preprocessing stage for extraction of insect footprint segments. In general, sizes and strides of footprints may be different according to type and size of an insect for r...

It is commonly held that the major functional features of the human foot (e.g. a functional longitudinal medial arch, lateral to medial force transfer and hallucal (big-toe) push-off) appear only in the last 2 Myr, but functional interpretations of footbones and footprints of early human ancestors (hominins) prior to 2 million years ago (Mya) remain contradictory. Pixel-wise topographical stati...

The Global Water Footprint Standard approach was used to calculate the volumetric blue and green water footprint indicator for lucerne production as important feed for dairy cows in a major lucerne production region in South Africa. The degree of sustainability of water use then was assessed by comparing water use to water availability for the region. The results show a volumetric water footpri...

As the threat posed by global climate change becomes more acute, action must be taken to mitigate carbon emission. Carbon footprint, as a widely used term and concept, is increasingly being recognized as a valuable indicator in the field of GHG and carbon emissions management. However, few attempts have been made to investigate precise relationship between carbon footprint and influential facto...

Over the last decade footprint feature extraction has been actively researched for footprint recognition. This paper provides an up-to-date review of major human footprint recognition 1 / 4

The interaction between the GGCC-specific Bsp RI DNA methyltransferase (M. Bsp RI) and substrate DNA was studied with footprinting techniques using a DNA fragment that was unmodified on both strands. Footprinting with DNase I revealed an approximately 14 bp protected region. Footprinting with dimethylsulfate detected major groove interactions with the guanine bases of the recognition sequence. ...

A wireless sensor network is a network consisting of spatially distributed, sometimeautonomous sensors, communicating wirelessly to cooperatively achieve some task. For example, a wireless sensor network may be used for habitat monitoring to ascertain the environment’s temperature, pressure, humidity, etc. In order for a wireless sensor network to provide such data, one needs to ensure there is...

We describe a visual analytics method supporting the analysis of two different types of spatio-temporal data, point events and trajectories of moving agents. The method combines clustering with interactive visual displays, in particular, map and space-time cube. We demonstrate the use of the method by applying it to two datasets from the VAST Challenge 2008: evacuation traces (trajectories of p...

Processes causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions benefit humans by providing consumer goods and services. This benefit, and hence the responsibility for emissions, varies by purpose or consumption category and is unevenly distributed across and within countries. We quantify greenhouse gas emissions associated with the final consumption of goods and services for 73 nations and 14 aggregate world...