The Galactic CO survey of Dame, Hartmann, & Thaddeus (2001; hereafter DHT) is composed of both large-scale unbiased surveys, mainly concentrated within 10 • of the Galactic plane, and targeted observations of clouds at higher latitudes. Analysis of all-sky IRAS and 21 cm maps suggests that the DHT survey is nearly complete for clouds larger than ∼ 1 • , even though roughly half of the total are...

OBJECTIVES This study seeks to determine whether perception of weight status among the overweight has changed with the increasing overweight/obesity prevalence. METHODS The perception of weight status was compared between overweight participants (BMI between 25.0-29.9 kg/m2) from NHANES III (1988-1994) and overweight participants from NHANES 1999-2004. Perception of weight status was assessed...

The aim of a quality assurance (QA) program is to assist radio-diagnostic facility in consistently obtaining adequate radiological information with minimum dose and cost. An integrated part control (QC) which series examinations checks on equipment performance are undertaken, so that any changes can be objectively monitored remedies made. main objective the present work was carry out an indepen...

Speech is easily produced with regular periodic patterns—as if spoken to a metronome. If we ask what it is that is periodically spaced, the answer is a perceptual ‘beat’ that occurs near the onset of vowels (especially stressed ones). Surprisingly, when periodically produced speech is studied it exhibits attractors at harmonic fractions (especially halves and thirds) of the basic periodicity. I...

Background: Mobile diabetes apps enable health care professionals (HCPs) to monitor patient progress, offer remote consultations, and allow more effective and informed treatment decisions between patients and HCPs. The OneTouch Reveal app aggregates data from a blood glucose meter and provides analytics to help patients and HCPs visualize glycemic trends and patterns, enabling more informed tre...

Approximately 18 million people suffer from diabetes mellitus, also known as diabetes, only in the United States which is 5% of the total population. It is the seventh leading cause of death. By 2020, the cost associated with diabetic treatment is expected to rise as high as $192 billion (Freer, March 2011). There is no cure for diabetic till date. Measuring glucose level in a diabetic patient ...

In this paper we present results from the METER (MEasuring TExt Reuse) project whose aim is to explore issues pertaining to text reuse and derivation, especially in the context of newspapers using newswire sources. Although the reuse of text by journalists has been studied in linguistics, we are not aware of any investigation using existing computational methods for this particular task. We inv...

This paper introduces a novel way to detect metrical structure in music. We introduce a way to compute autocorrelation such that the distribution of energy in phase space is preserved in a matrix. The resulting autocorrelation phase matrix is useful for several tasks involving metrical structure. First we can use the matrix to enhance standard autocorrelation by calculating the Shannon entropy ...