In this paper airborne thermal videos are used to detect vehicles. The movement of the camera is estimated from the optical flow using projective planar homographies as transformation model. A three level classification process is proposed: On the first level the eigenvalues of the squared averaged gradient are used to extract interest locations that can be put into correspondence with other su...

We consider a one dimensional stochastic control problem that arises from queueing network applications. The state process corresponding to the queue-length is given by a stochastic differential equation which reflects at the origin. The controller can choose the drift coefficient which represents the service rate and the buffer size b > 0. When the queue-length reaches b, the new customers are...

objective: previous research has linked self regulation and parenting styles separately to academic procrastination. this article investigates the impact of the dimensions of parenting styles, behavioral self regulation and short term self regulation on procrastination of students. method: a sample of 249 adolescents (174 females and 75 male) aged 19 - 21 years completed measures of parent as s...

a prospective study during 1990-1995 was conducted to assess the risk of rejection and infection in kidney-transplant recipients, who's original kidney had vesico-ureteral reflux (ver). two groups of recipients with and without ver were followed for one month after transplant 24 and 250 cases respectively. the calculated relative risks for the effect of ver showed a moderate increased risk...

The impact of humic acid fouling on the membrane transport of two pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) - namely carbamazepine and sulfamethoxazole - in forward osmosis (FO) was investigated. Deposition of humic acid onto the membrane surface was promoted by the complexation with calcium ions in the feed solution and the increase in ionic strength at the membrane surface due to the reverse ...

Fast capacity estimation is a key enabling technique for second-life of lithium-ion batteries due to the hard work involved in determining the capacity of a large number of used electric vehicle (EV) batteries. This paper tries to make three contributions to the existing literature through a robust and advanced algorithm: (1) a three layer back propagation artificial neural network (BP ANN) mod...