in recent years due to improvements of technology within automobile industry, design process of advanced driver assistance systems for collision avoidance and traffic management has been investigated in both academics and industrial levels. detection of traffic signs is an effective method to reach the mentioned aims. in this paper a new intelligent driver assistance system based on traffic sig...

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the agencies. Abstract This paper presents a scan statistic, progressive upper level set (PULSE) scan statistic, for geospatial hotspot detection and its software implementation. Like ULS, the PULSE scan statistic is based on the arbitraril...

The theory of load-induced relaxation of the layered Maxwell half-space is applied to the study of glacioisostatic adjustment in Fennoscandia. The interpretation uses emergence data from Angermanland (Sweden) and uplift-rate data from the Gulf of Bothnia. With mantle viscosity fixed at 10 Pa s, the data can be explained by an earth model characterized by (a) an elastic surface layer of conventi...

[1] Tomographic models based on hypothetically infinite frequency ray interpretation of teleseismic travel time shifts have revealed a region of relatively low P and S wave speeds extending from shallow mantle to 400 km depth beneath Iceland. In reality, seismic waves have finite frequency bandwidths and undergo diffractive wave front healing. The limitation in ray theory leaves large uncertain...

Since the Reform and Open Door Policy Initiative launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the Chinese government gradually undertook the open door policy towards foreign direct investment (FDI). First, the government created Special Enterprise Zones (SEZ) in the selected coast cities. A set of preferential treatment is granted to the foreign enterprises invited in SEZs with a restriction on the trans...

A new fiber-optic perimeter intrusion detection system employing only one single-mode fiber as a disturbance sensor for each zone is presented. signal generated through interference between lights from two resonators, i.e., linear laser cavity and an extended resonator, was used determining defended zone. not sensing the intrusion-induced but also transmission of pump lights. Although many pape...

The task of detecting people entering a sterile zone is a common scenario for visual surveillance systems. We propose a novel texture classifier to detect a person in a video frame without temporal information in realtime by identifying salient texture regions. An extension to this classifier by fusing it with simple motion information significantly outperforms standard motion tracking. Lower d...

Abstract Nakagami- m parametric imaging has been used for and detection of coagulation zone in microwave ablation. In order to improve the image smoothness accuracy detection, multi-pyramid coarse-to-fine bowman iteration (MCB) method was proposed compared with traditional moment-based estimator (MBE) method. Phantom simulations showed that MCB could obtain better higher lateral target size tha...

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BACKGROUND This study aims to assess the incidence and clinical relevance of slow ventricular tachycardia (VT) and the effectiveness and/or deleterious effects of antitachycardia pacing in slow VT in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator recipients. METHODS AND RESULTS This multicenter prospective randomized study included 374 patients (326 men) without prior history of slow VT (<148 bpm) im...