Terms such as vulnerability, national resilience, and resilience are quite difficult for the residents may not be properly understood by residents. To that end, it is important to understand how related terms vulnerability. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire on Then, sorted out what associated with resilience. similarity map of associative created using quantification method third type...

The article describes the status of our ongoing R&D at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) towards the development of an advanced multimedia database biomedical information system that supports content-based image retrieval (CBIR). NLM maintains a collection of 17,000 digitized spinal X-rays along with text survey data from the Second National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (...

Ocean remotely sensed image analysis using two-dimensional continuous wavelet transforms Li-Chung Wu a , Laurence Zsu-Hsin Chuang b , Dong-Jiing Doong c & Chia Chuen Kao a a Department of Hydraulic and Ocean Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan b Institute of Ocean Technology and Marine Affairs, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan c Department of Marine Environ...

Title of dissertation: MONUMENTS AS A NATIONAL PRACTICE: THE DILEMMAS OF LIBERAL NATIONALISM Avital Shein, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Ronald Terchek Department of Government and Politics Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu Department of Government and Politics At first glance, the very idea of liberal nationalism appears to be an oxymoron. It is dedicated to univer...

background: medical image interpolation is recently introduced as a helpful tool to obtain further information via initial available images taken by tomography systems. this information may be useful for better diagnosis of possible lesions or better tumor delineation at radiation treatment. to do this, deformable image registration algorithms are mainly utilized to perform image interpolation ...

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