We present ExprGen, a system to automatically generate 3D stylized character expressions from humans in a perceptually valid and geometrically consistent manner. Our multi-stage deep learning system utilizes the latent variables of human and character expression recognition convolutional neural networks to control a 3D animated character rig. This end-to-end system takes images of human faces a...

The scientific literature is abundant regarding control charts in multivariate environments for numerical and mixed data; however, there are few publications qualitative data. Qualitative variables provide valuable information on processes various industrial, productive, technological, health contexts. Social no exception. There multiple nominal ordinal categorical used economics, psychology, l...

background: quality of life in post-menopausal women and menopausal symptoms are closely related concepts. influence health education policy in order to promote health and adopt a menopause lifestyle requires alternative strategies, including health training programs with community - based interventions. the current study aims to survey the effects of support groups on quality of life of post-m...

• Objective: To review the diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis. • Methods: Qualitative review of the literature. • Results: Bronchiolitis is a common disease that affects most children under 2 years of age. The most common etiology is respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The diagnosis is usually clinical, although rapid screening tests are available that can assist with early iden...

BACKGROUND C-Reactive Protein (CRP) has been shown to be an accurate biomarker for discriminating bacterial from viral infections in febrile patients in Southeast Asia. Here we investigate the accuracy of existing rapid qualitative and semi-quantitative tests as compared with a quantitative reference test to assess their potential for use in remote tropical settings. METHODS Blood samples wer...

Virtual ly 32 years ago in the summer of 1B16 a small number of green ajid brown beetles were collected al Riverton, N . J. They were sent to the United States National Museum in Washington where taxonomic experts identified them as the Japanese beetle. I t was believed the insect made its accidental introduction into this country a year or two earl ier as grubs in soil around the roots of exot...

The COBAS AMPLICOR system automates amplification and detection of target nucleic acids, making diagnostic PCR routine for a variety of infectious diseases. The system contains a single thermal cycler with two independently regulated heating/cooling blocks, an incubator, a magnetic particle washer, a pipettor, and a photometer. Amplified products are captured on oligonucleotide-coated paramagne...