This work was part of the course EC520. The objective of this project is to develop an algorithm for the detection and enumeration of crabs on beach. The basic method is background modeling and background subtraction. Based on several previous frames, the background of current frame can be estimated using median model or non-parametric model. Morphological operation is applied to foreground ima...

background & aim: emotional intelligence is one of the most important issues that has strong effects on patient nursing care. currently, a concept analysis approach is considered as one of the most important approaches for nursing knowledge development. therefore, this narrative study is done by content analysis approach to understand and use emotional intelligence in nursing. methods & materia...

nursing is considered as a high level of risk profession and burnout. past research on nurses has identified a significant negative relation of nurses’ job burnout with their hardiness and emotional intelligence. the present research aimed to explore the job burnouts among nurses, and to examine the relationship between nurses’ burnout with predictor variables such as emotional intelligence, sp...

Artificial insemination is a well-established part of modern agricultural practice. A viable semen sample is judged by the total number of spermatozoa (sperm) in the sample and the motility of the sperm. In this paper, we report the development of a reusable measurement cell and electronics for screening semen samples based on the Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) and Universal Frequency to Dig...

Achievement gaps between underrepresented minority (URM) students and their white peers in college science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classrooms are persistent across many white-majority institutions of higher education. Attempts to reduce this phenomenon of underperformance through increasing classroom structure via active learning have been partially successful. In this study, ...

Counter reachability games are played by two players on a graph with labelled edges. Each move consists in picking an edge from the current location and adding its label to a counter vector. The objective is to reach a given counter value in a given location. We distinguish three semantics for counter reachability games, according to what happens when a counter value would become negative: the ...

Losses from the proton and antiproton beams of the Fermilab Tevatron have been shown to produce a halo which contribute to backgrounds to physics signals in the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF). To provide a measure of the beam halo and losses, we have installed arrays of scintillation counters on both sides of the CDF detector. We describe here the physical configuration of these counters, ...

Chen et al. in 2004 proposed a new hierarchy structure, called the enhanced pyramid network (EPM, for short), by replacing each mesh in a pyramid network (PM, for short) with a torus. Recently, some topological properties and communication on the EPMs have been investigated or derived. Their results have revealed that an EPM is an attractive alternative to a PM. This study investigates the node...