BACKGROUND MRI is an important clinical tool for diagnosing dementia-like diseases such as Frontemporal Dementia (FTD). However there is a need to develop more accurate and standardized MRI analysis methods. OBJECTIVE To compare FTD with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) with three automatic MRI analysis methods - Hippocampal Volumetry (HV), Tensor-based Morphometry...

Many cooperative transaction models are intended to support teams of programmers sharing a software development environment. However, papers on this topic often neglect to describe how the programmers might actually interact with the cooperative transactions in terms of user commands and corresponding responses from the environment. In this paper, we consider a particular cooperative transactio...

The purpose of the current paper is to clarify the misunderstanding in using the constant returns to scale (CRS) model in data envelopment analysis (DEA) to estimate returns to scale (RTS) classi®cation. By illustrating the following two di€erent assumptions: (a) all decision making units (DMUs) are assumed to be compared to a CRS frontier in the CCR model, i.e., all DMUs are assumed to be capa...

Aspergillus fumigatus is responsible for a disproportionate number of invasive mycosis cases relative to other common filamentous fungi. While many fungal factors critical for infection establishment are known, genes essential for disease persistence and progression are ill defined. We propose that fungal factors that promote navigation of the rapidly changing nutrient and structural landscape ...

Objetivo: Revisar a literatura com o objetivo de identificar as principais complicações do câncer colorretal (CCR). Revisão Bibliográfica: O CCR é um tumor maligno responsável por ser terceira causa morte associada ao no Brasil. pode classificado como familiar ou esporádico, sendo último, mais predominante. Devido diagnóstico tardio, déficit rastreio adequado, há aumento incidência complicações...

in this research, efficiency of iranian forest and rangeland decision making unit was assessed using non-parametric method. inputs and outputs determined by field research and with applying a delphi method the final input and output variables selected. forty five wood-producing units (forestry plans) in three northern iranian province were studied using data envelopment analysis. the efficiency...

Despite recent progress, computational visual aesthetic is still challenging. Image cropping, which refers to the removal of unwanted scene areas, is an important step to improve the aesthetic quality of an image. However, it is challenging to evaluate whether cropping leads to aesthetically pleasing results because the assessment is typically subjective. In this paper, we propose a novel casca...

Micromachined corner cube retroreflectors (CCRs) can be employed as transmitters in free-space optical communication links. In this application, a CCR is illuminated by an unmodulated beam, and one mirror of the CCR is intentionally misaligned to modulate the intensity of the retroreflected beam. The low power consumption, small size, and ease of operation of a CCR makes it an attractive option...

We introduce a new regression method – called Correlated Component Regression (CCR) – which provides reliable predictions even with near multicollinear data. Near multicollinearity occurs when a large number of correlated predictors and relatively small sample size exists as well as situations involving a relatively small number of correlated predictors. Different variants of CCR are tailored t...