Face recognition is important in human identification. The biological recognition technique acts as a good method and broad applications in security areas. This work presents a method to improve the face recognition accuracy using a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Wavelet Transform. Wavelet Transform is used to decompose the input image with different levels and rearrange...

The World Health Organization (WHO), National Cholesterol Education Program Adults Treatment Panel III (NCEP ATP III) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) have proposed different criteria to diagnose metabolic syndrome (MetS). However, there is no single definition to accurately diagnose MetS. The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of MetS using WHO, NCEP ATP III and I...

Background—We sought to determine the frequency with which physicians follow National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP-ATPII) guidelines in screening for cardiovascular risk factors and treating hyperlipidemia. Methods and Results—We conducted a retrospective chart review on randomly sampled charts of 225 patients admitted to the coronary care unit between January and June 1996. The main out...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship of the metabolic syndrome and its single components, defined by four different criteria, with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) in a prospective population-based study. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The metabolic syndrome was defined according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), the International D...

BACKGROUND Upward trends of obesity urge more effective identification of those at cardiovascular risk. A simple dichotomous indicator, enlarged waist (> or =88 cm) combined with elevated triglycerides (> or =1.45 mmol/L) (EWET), was shown to offer advantages in identifying individuals with atherogenic "lipid overaccumulation" compared with other indicators, including the metabolic syndrome def...

OBJECTIVES This investigation was designed to determine the relationship between National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) ATP-II lipid guidelines and subclinical atherosclerosis, defined by electron beam tomography (EBT) calcified coronary plaque, in asymptomatic women. BACKGROUND NCEP guidelines are used to identify women at increased risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) on the basis ...

Metabolic syndrome (MS) was measured on the sample of 307 inhabitants of the island of Vis. Two criteria where used, one defined by the WHO (World Health Organization) and the other defined by the NCEP (National Cholesterol Education Program). The results according to NCEP definition showed a 47.2% of prevalence of MS, which is high but expected because of high independent factors analyzed in t...

We analyse climate variability in the North Atlantic sea-air fluxes derived from the voluntary observing ship (VOS) data and NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. An ensemble of VOS climatologies has been produced in by the cross-application of different parameterizations and variable corrections. Interannual to decadal scale variability in both VOS and NCEP/NCAR fluxes is primarily determined by the turbulent...