A reliable personal recognition based on ear biometrics is highly in demand due to its vast application in automated surveillance, law enforcement etc. In this paper a robust ear recognition system is proposed using gradient ordinal relationship pattern. A reference point based normalization is proposed along with a novel ear transformation over normalized ear, to obtain robust ear representati...

The treatment is described of 17 patients with presumed viral hepatitis who developed hepatic coma unresponsive to standard conservative measures. Five patients were considered for treatment by exchange transfusion. Four were treated, with transient improvement in two, but all died. Nine patients were considered for treatment by heterologous liver perfusion. Six were treated, with transient imp...

Code coning is considered as the challenge to the software quality. To develop a reliable and authenticated software system, it is required to remove the clone based bugs over the software system. There are number of associated approaches but no one is able to provide the reliable solution. In this work, a combined mathematical model is presented to overcome the limitations of existing approach...

In an oil field that has reached its maximum gas handling capacity, and where wells are producing under gas coning conditions such that the gas-oil ratio (GOR) depends on the wells production rate, oil production is maximized if the marginal GOR (mGOR) is equal for all wells. The GOR and the mGOR are not readily available measurements, but they can be predicted using detailed reservoir models. ...

introduction: meatoplasty is the final and essential step in performing effective canal wall down surgery for chronic otitis media. in this article we review some previous techniques and discuss our preferred method. materials and methods: in this observational case series study, we used this technique in 53 patients (28 male and 25 female) between january 2005 and january 2008. our survey was ...

maize genotypes were screened for host resistance and seed treatment chemicals were evaluated in field to manage fusarium ear rot complex of maize at high- and mid-hill environments in nepal during 2003 and 2004. seven popular maize genotypes along with a susceptible check were used in the host resistance study. the maize genotypes adopted from exotic sources, manakamana-3 and deuti, performed ...

Introduction: Otalgia is one of the complaints which may occur at any age. The etiology of the pain may be in the ear, structures around the ear or other head and neck structures. This is caused by the complex nervous connections in the head and neck areas, the ear, the pharynx and the nose. Since understanding the etiologies of referred otalgia can help in the assessment and treatment of the ...