Zusammenfassung Kriminalprognostische Verfahren sind unerlässlicher Bestandteil der Beurteilung von Rückfallwahrscheinlichkeiten im Zuge Entlassungsentscheidungen. Ihre Eignung zur Vorhersage Lockerungsmissbräuchen und intramuralen Regelverstößen wurde hingegen bislang kaum untersucht. Die vorliegende Studie prüft die prädiktive Validität 3. Version Offender Group Reconviction Scale (OGRS 3) de...

This paper presents a novel raster-to-vector technique for digital images by advanced watershed decomposition [5][13] coupled with some ad-hoc heuristics devoted to obtain high quality rendering of digital photography. The system is composed by two main steps: first, the image is partitioned into homogeneous and contiguous regions using Watershed decomposition. Then, a Scalable Vector Graphics ...

A 70-year-old man presented with 2 weeks of progressive typical angina without myocardial infarction. He had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in December 2006, using a left internal mammary graft to the left anterior descending artery, saphenous vein grafts (SVG) to the distal right coronary artery, and the second obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex coronary artery. Co...

Abstract Importance Total arterial revascularization (TAR), the complete avoidance of saphenous vein grafting (SVG) in coronary artery bypass (CABG), is advocated based on superior conduit durability and resistance against atherosclerosis. However, low adoption rate TAR indicates a high level controversy. Objective To compare long-term survival between conventional CABG involving SVG. Data sour...

The higher rate of periprocedural adverse events and lower rate of event-free survival of saphenous vein graft (SVG) intervention compared with native coronary artery intervention is primarily due to distal embolization. Distal embolic protection devices have been shown to reduce the incidence of no flow/slow flow and procedure related myocardial infarction during percutaneous intervention of d...

Many of the multimedia researchers have focused on the issue of the retrieval of images using indexed image collections. A number of spatial data structures based on Minimum Bounding Rectangles (MBRs) have been developed. Previously, we presented aggregation-tree structure to extract metadata from Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents [8]. In this paper, we revised the aggregation-tree to be...

The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) standard allows representing complex graphical scenes by a collection of graphic vectorial-based primitives, offering several advantages with respect to classical raster images such as: scalability, resolution independence, etc. In this paper we present a full comparison between some advanced raster to SVG algorithms: SWaterG, SVGenie, SVGWave and Vector Eye. ...

In our aim to modernize geographical legacy data from the German office of geographical survey with XML languages, we first modeled the data in GML, a standard language for geography markup. The resulting model has then been used as a template for a JAVA application that assembles the necessary information from the legacy data and writes it into a GML document. During the second part of our wor...

Aneurysms of saphenous vein grafts (SVGs) to coronary arteries are rare, usually asymptomatic and found incidentally. We report a case of an 84-year-old female who was found to have 8.1 x 8.4 cm aneurysm of an SVG to obtuse marginal (OM) artery. The aneurysm was prior to the distal anastamosis but no flow into the OM artery was noted. Cook Tornado Embolization Coils were used successfully to oc...

Takayasu's aortitis patients present a variety of symptoms, including angina pectoris, aortic valve regurgitation, and aortic branch stenosis. The case described in this paper primarily presented with angina pectoris. Close investigation revealed a left coronary artery ostium lesion, an aortic root aneurysm, and a mild aortic regurgitation. The patient underwent a modified Bentall operation wit...