T he American Heart Association Prevention I Conference dealt exclusively with issues related to blood cholesterol level and disease.' The AHA has endorsed a number of national recommendations and guidelines in this area, including the Adult Treatment Panel Guidelines on the Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults,2 the Report of the Expert Panel on Population S...

This paper sets out a model of the participants involved in identity fraud. This model will be verified through discussions with industry experts from key Australian organisations involved in and impacted by identity fraud.

This project explores the possibility of creating a non obtrusive and intuitive gesture interface for wearable computers. A computer vision solution based on the CONDENSATION algorithm is proposed, and the underlying tracking algorithms designed and implemented. A new measurement model and contour likelihood function based on both the shape and color of the hand is presented. The hand tracking ...

One of the challenges in relativistic heavy ion collisions is to measure and study the large number of particles produced in such reactions. Measurement of particle density and transverse energy density in rapidity is a convenient way to describe particle production in heavy ion collisions. The pseudorapidity density (dN/dη) and transverse energy pseudorapidity density (dET /dη) at mid-rapidity...

I would like to hear comments from more experienced experimental researchers about standard practices for recruiting and compensating participants in consumer and marketing experiments. What are the pros and cons of using student participants? (I know there was a debate about this in the literature a few years ago, but what is the current prevailing opinion?) Is there a difference between using...

Consensus is a fundamental building block used to solve many practical problems that appear on reliable distributed systems. In spite of the fact that consensus is being widely studied in the context of classical networks, few studies have been conducted in order to solve it in the context of dynamic and self-organizing systems characterized by unknown networks. While in a classical network the...