background: definite data regarding the incidence and distribution of renal tumours in eastern india is not known. for better management, as it is essential to identify patients with poor prognosis, prognostic factors like stage, nuclear grade and their relationship to molecular markers are also unclear in this region. the purpose of our study was to assess the spectrum of adult renal tumours w...

This paper discusses how present scanning technologies are being applied to automatic lumber grading. The presentation focuses on 1) what sensing and scanning devices are needed to measure information for accurate grading feature detection, 2) the hardware and software needed to efficiently process this information, and 3) specific issues related to softwood lumber grading and hardwood lumber g...

• Fast and convenient imaging of the retina by a photographer • Storage, archiving, and transmission of the images • Use of the images for quality assurance (that is, having them checked by another person) to ensure that no cases of retinopathy go undetected • Ability to enhance images – magnification, red-free, enhanced contrast, etc. When using the Scottish Grading Protocol2, just one retinal...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) beef grading system plays an important role in marketing and promoting beef. USDA graders inspect beef carcasses and determine a quality grade within a few seconds. Although the graders are well-trained, the nature of this grading process may lead to grading errors. Significant differences in the USDA graders’ ‘called’ and ‘camera-graded’ quali...

Aim: To find out utility of grading breast carcinoma on fine needle aspiration (FNA) as per the criteria proposed by Robinson and Colleagues and compare it with histological grading proposed by Elston and Ellis based on method by Nottingham’s modification of Bloom and Richardson system. Methods: Cytological smears of 58 cases of breast carcinoma diagnosed on fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA...

A contour sub-division algorithm on each layer arising from slicing a heterogeneous object is proposed. Within each slice, the material grading is decomposed into subcontours according to the different grading variation. A parameter called “grading step-width” is defined to control the number of sub-contours and resolution of the grading. With such discretization, it is, therefore, possible to ...

Standards-based grading, in which grading should be designed to communicate to students their current level of mastery with regards to well-articulated standards, is becoming popular at the K-12 level. As yet, the literature addressing standards-based grading at the university level is scarce. In this paper, I document my attempts to put into practice the principles of standards based grading i...

A simple method that incorporates coupling between bath and system and between individual bath modes is proposed. In Ž . the new locally propagating gaussian LPG approximation, the bath is modeled by Gaussians at each system site that propagate in time. Each site couples to others by the overlap of their Gaussians. In a test case with weak but non-negligible coupling, LPG is nearly as rapid as ...

We present some techniques for planning in temporal domains specified with the recent standard languange PDDL2.1. These techniques are implemented in LPG, a fully-automated system that took part in the third International Planning Competition (Toulouse, 2002) showing excellent performance. The planner is based on a stochastic local search method and on a graph-based representation called “Tempo...