I n the late 19th century, William Osler notoriously quipped that treating infants with cardiac defects was futile, thereby encouraging Maude Abbott to pursue her rigorous studies of pathologic heart specimens. Ultimately, this work resulted in The Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, which is widely regarded as the first systematic catalogue of cardiovascular malformation (CVM) and therefore t...

BACKGROUND Although the signal-averaged ECG (SAECG) is currently the best noninvasive test to identify patients with ventricular tachycardia (VT) following myocardial infarction (MI), it is still a relatively insensitive test. Body surface mapping has improved the sensitivity of ECG in detecting various cardiac diseases. This study applied body surface mapping to the SAECG in the form of a clin...

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the closure stage of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis and the maturational stage of the cervical vertebrae (CVM) in growing and young adult subjects using cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). CBCT images with an extended field of view obtained from 315 participants (148 females and 167 males; mean age 15.6 ±7.3 years; range 6 to...

The paper is aimed at providing evidence on economic efficiency, and equity of distribution of domestic water services in the West Bank. The study utilizes the CVM as a means of monetizing public preferences and households’ WTP. In the CVM questionnaire, the dichotomous choice with follow-up debriefing questions format is followed by an open-ended follow-up question was undertaken. A second que...

Software Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems have been proposed to provide the convenience of shared memory programming on clusters of workstations. Different research groups advocate specific design decisions in their implementations. In this paper we present an experimental comparison of the communication requirements of three different page based systems software DSM systems, CVM, Quarks...

Our research efforts focus on the deployment of 3D sensing capabilities to a multi-modal under vehicle inspection robot. In this paper, we outline the various design challenges towards the automation of the 3D scene modeling task. We employ laser-based range imaging techniques to extract the geometry of a vehicle’s undercarriage and present our results after range integration. We perform shape ...

We present a streaming model for large-scale classification (in the context of l2-SVM) by leveraging connections between learning and computational geometry. The streaming model imposes the constraint that only a single pass over the data is allowed. The l2-SVM is known to have an equivalent formulation in terms of the minimum enclosing ball (MEB) problem, and an efficient algorithm based on th...

The Lane-Curvature Method (LCM) presented in this paper is a new local obstacle avoidance method for indoor mobile robots. The method combines the Curvature-Velocity Method (CVM) with a new directional method called the Lane Method. The lane method divides the environment into lanes, and then chooses the best lane to follow to optimize travel along a desired heading. A local heading is then cal...

Chronolog is an extension of logic programming based on temporal logic. The paper presents a framework which can be used to exploit multiple levels of parallelism found in Chronolog programs, context parallelism, AND-and OR-parallelism. Based on an analysis of these modes of parallelism in Chronolog programs, a parallel execution mechanism of the language is discussed and a formal execution mod...