In spite of significant advancements in imaging technology, monitoring, and microsurgical techniques, complete and safe removal of tentorial meningiomas remains a challenge for most neurosurgeons. Classifications of tentorial meningiomas are revised. The combined supra/infratentorial approach to resect tentorial meningioma is discussed. This approach provides a wider exposure of the supra/infra...

This paper modifies the foundations of combined Discrete Event Simulation (DES) and Continuous Systems Simulation (CSS) by extending the CSS part to the stochastic domain through including discrete (although aggregated) entities. The traditional combined DES/CSS simulation, where the modeller selects between a DES and a CSS description for components of the system under study, lacks a solid the...

Otogenic intracranial infections usually require both neurosurgical and otolaryngological surgery. This prospective, non-randomized study investigated the value of combining both surgical procedures. Thirteen patients with otogenic intracranial abscess were treated by mastoidectomy and abscess removal through the same incision between 1993 and 2002. Another 12 patients underwent abscess removal...

With the growing use of the Social Web, an increasing number of applications for exchanging opinions with other people are becoming available online. These applications are widely adopted with the consequence that the number of opinions about the debated issues increases. In order to cut in on a debate, the participants need first to evaluate the opinions in favour or against the debated issue....

The statistical approaches such as texture spectrum and local binary pattern methods have been discussed in this paper. The features are extracted by the computation of LBP and Texture Spectrum histogram. A combined approach of LBP with texture spectrum is also proposed further. Experiments of texture feature extraction, classification of textures and similarity-based image-to-image matching ar...

Many operating agencies are currently developing computerized freeway traffic management systems to support traffic operations as part of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) user service improvements. This study illustrates the importance of using simplified data analysis and presents a promising approach for improving demand prediction and traffic data modeling to support pro-active tr...

In the future generation networks mobile IP is one of the dominating protocols that provide seamless mobility support in the internet. Although Internet Engineering Task Force has standardized various mobility management protocols like MIPv6, FMIPv6, HMIPv6, FHMIPv6 but still there is space for enhancing their performance. MIPv6 suffers from drawback like handover latency & high signaling cost....

Current techniques for rendering multilayered translucent materials such as skin, marble, jade, and paper can achieve startling realism by modeling subsurface scattering. However, due to performance concerns, all of these techniques require fixing the material properties, including the depth and scattering parameters of each layer, before rendering begins. This makes it impractical to calculate...

In this paper, we present a combined approach designed for automated segmentation of radiological image, such as CT, MRI, etc, to get the organ or interested area from the image. This approach integrates region-based method and boundary-based method. Such integration reduces the drawbacks of both methods and enlarges the advantages of them. Firstly, we use fuzzy connectedness method to get an i...

This paper presents the results of the project MIAU, a data mining approach for intrusion detection alert correlation. MIAU combines different data mining techniques in order to properly solve some existing problems in the management and analysis of alerts generated by actual intrusion detection systems. Some of these data mining methods and their application to MIAU are introduced in this pape...