conclusions based on the results of the present study and other performed studies in this regard, menopause, aging, vasomotor symptoms, and education had significant association with the qol of postmenopausal women. the reduced qol in postmenopausal women could eventually lead to the reduced qol of their spouses. therefore, it is necessary to plan for the education of these women and their husb...

Cardiopulmonary imaging is a key tool in modern diagnostic and interventional medicine. Automated analysis of MRI or ultrasound video is complicated by limitations on the image quality and complicated deformations of the chest cavity created by patient breathing and heart beating. When these are the primary causes of image variation, the video sequence samples a two-dimensional, nonlinear manif...

A loudness measurement which takes account of the spectral and temporal structure of a sound event, better than the A-weighted SPL, has advantages. Nevertheless, it is not universally accepted because the loudness measurement does not allow a complete judgment of complex sound events comparable to human hearing. In addition to loudness, there are other psychoacoustic parameters such as sharpnes...

Dimension reduction techniques have been a successful avenue for automatically extracting the “concepts” underlying unstructured data, a task that naturally arises in fields as diverse as information retrieval, image processing, social science, etc. It is surprising how much can be achieved for this task using only the raw data itself, without resorting to any additional knowledge or intelligen...

The use of Constructive Induction (CI) methods for the generation of high-quality attributes is a very important issue in Machine Learning. In this paper, we present a CI method based in Genetic Programming (GP). This method is able to evolve projections that transform the dataset, constructing a new coordinates space in which the data can be more easily predicted. This coordinates space can be...

Introduction: Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) was introduced and became more common based on its low cost, fast image procedure rate and low radiation dose compared to CT. This imaging modality improved diagnostic and treatment-planning procedures by providing three-dimensional information with greatly reduced level of radiation dose compared to 2D dental imaging modalitie...