Coherent Deformable Model Yusuf Sinan Akgul Chandra Kambhamettu Maureen Stone Department of Computer and Information Sciences Division of Otolaryngology University of Delaware The University of Maryland Medical School Newark, Delaware 19716 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Abstract We present a system that extracts and tracks 2D midsagital tongue surfaces from ultrasound image sequences produced by a ...

The motion of a stone skimming over a water surface is considered. A simplified description of the collisional process of the stone with water is proposed. The maximum number of bounces is estimated by considering both the slowing down of the stone and its angular stability. The conditions for a successful throw are discussed. © 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers. @DOI: 10.1119/1.151...

Ruud Hortensius , David Terburg , Barak Morgan , Dan J. Stein , Jack van Honk b,c,g and Beatrice de Gelder a,b,* a Brain and Emotion Laboratory, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands b Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, J-Block, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Af...

Rapid urbanisation and, as a result fast growing informal areas, increase the need for affordable housing. This urgent requires new forms of input from architects active in Global South. The profession must adapt and evolve. Based on previous research, I argue that to build sustainable communities, residents be heard part development process. To involve residents, can use contextually suitable ...

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If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has poverty gone up or gone down? The economist’s instinct, framed by population replication axioms that undergird standard measures of poverty, is to say that in this case poverty has gone down. But this goes against the instinct of those who work directly with the poor, for whom the absolute numbe...