BACKGROUND Seasonal variations of blood pressure-related diseases have been described in several populations. However, few studies have examined the seasonal variations of blood pressure in the elderly, a segment of the population particularly exposed to vascular diseases. The association of blood pressure with season and outdoor temperature was examined in 8801 subjects 65 years or older from ...

The continued growth of the cities is causing an increase of the amount of surface to illuminate. However, this rise into lighting brings some unintended consequences such as increased of energy consumption or the light pollution. To make these effects less intrusive as possible some councils have chosen to perform a part-night lighting in some areas. Nonetheless, this kind of shutdown may caus...

Rishi Ramakrishnan Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sydney September 2015 Illumination Invariant Outdoor Perception This thesis proposes the use of a multi-modal sensor approach to achieve illumination invariance in images taken in outdoor environments. The approach is automatic in that it does not require user input for initialisation, and is not reliant on the input of atmospheric radia...

INTRODUCTION Alcohol is the leading cause of death and disability globally among males aged 15–24 in all regions except the Eastern Mediterranean and females aged 15–24 in the wealthy nations and the Americas; much of this burden is from injury. Excessive alcohol use is the leading drug problem among young people in the USA, and the leading causes of alcohol-related deaths among young people in...

We show how high-level scene properties can be inferred from classiication of low-level image features, speciically for the indoor-outdoor scene retrieval problem. We systematically studied the features: (1) his-tograms in the Ohta color space (2) multiresolution, simultaneous autoregressive model parameters (3) coef-cients of a shift-invariant DCT. We demonstrate that performance is improved b...

We show how high level scene properties can be in ferred from classi cation of low level image features speci cally for the indoor outdoor scene retrieval prob lem We systematically studied the features his tograms in the Ohta color space multiresolution si multaneous autoregressive model parameters coef cients of a shift invariant DCT We demonstrate that performance is improved by computing fe...

BACKGROUND Agaricus brasiliensis (A. brasiliensis) is a medicinal mushroom that exerts various pharmacological actions. We previously demonstrated that different cultivation conditions altered the activity of the polyphenol-related enzymes from this mushroom. However, the influence of cultivation conditions on the antioxidant activity of the fruiting bodies remains unclear. Therefore, in this s...