Abstract Prior research has investigated global mobility through the lenses of consumer acculturation, identity, and possessions with a focus on consumers’ socialization identity management in host culture. It neglected, however, ways that globally mobile consumers simultaneously navigate multiple, cross-border markets which they are embedded. We adopt social network perspective to investigate ...

background: this study aims to assess the pattern of meal frequency consumption of iranian children and adolescents at national and subnational levels according to the socioeconomic status (ses) of the living region. methods:  this multi-centric study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 students, aged 6-18 years, who were selected by multistage random cluster sampling from 30 provinces. mea...

abstract background: primary immunodeficiency diseases (pid) are heterogeneous group of inherited disorders mainly characterized by recurrent infections leading to several times hospital admissions. the economic impact of pid is a challenging issue; therefore, this study was designed to determine the medical costs of hospitalizations in this group of patients as an indicator of the direct cost ...

Three-dimensional laser scanned surface segmentation is an important step for computer-aided broken objection patching. Current methods still have high time consuming problem in practical applications. In order to solve this problem, we propose the rapid three-dimensional (3-D) surface segmentation based on region dilation. The procedure includes three steps of point cloud meshing, candidate re...

Recently, a number of computer-aided paint systems have been developed to improve the colour painting process, traditionally one of the most time-consuming steps in two-dimensional cel animation production. However, much improvement remains to be made in the design of these new systems. In this thesis, we describe a region-based cel painting design which uses the "paint-by-number" method and is...