The medieval period in Denmark (11-16 century) was a time of great social and economic change. The current study seeks to analyze dietary patterns of individuals from a medieval site in Holbæk, Denmark who lived during this historically dynamic and tumultuous period. A previous isotopic analysis indicated a mixed terrestrial C3 based diet with varying amounts of marine foods (Jørkov 2007). This...

Patterns in nature result from dynamic relationships of forces and constraints. What is analogous for patterns in art? Art is created by human hands motivated by inspiration and thought. It is the product of creativity and skill. Creativity is constrained by cognitive processes and skill by the limits of technology. Based upon the author’s studies of Oriental carpets, this paper suggests that p...

Low back pain has become one of the major reasons from absence from work. The aetiology of LBP is still not fully understood and controversy remains regarding the significance of the influencing factors. Clinical objectivity is consistently increased by isokinetic testing devices whose validation is a major goal in clinical practice. By this means we set up a protocol of examination to better q...

OBJECTIVE To identify dietary patterns among young adults and the relationships with socio-economic, demographic and lifestyle characteristics. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional analysis of a cohort study. Food intake was assessed by a frequency questionnaire, and dietary patterns were identified using principal components analysis. SETTING Southern Brazil. SUBJECTS A total of 4202...

A general texture description model is proposed, using topology related attributes calculated from Local Binary Patterns (LBP). The proposed framework extends and generalises existing LBP-based descriptors like LBP-rotation invariant uniform patterns (LBP), and Local Binary Count (LBC). Like them, it allows contrast and rotation invariant image description using more compact descriptors than cl...

A major issue in computer aided celiac disease diagnosis is the prevalence of substantial intra-class and even intra-image variations. A method which splits the images into a set of smaller ones and finally applies a decision level fusion turned out to be a powerful technique to address these problems and to boost the classification accuracy. This is especially true if using Local Binary Patter...

This paper investigates the problem of learning sets of discriminative patterns from local binary patterns (LBP). Such patterns are usually referred to as ‘dominant local binary patterns’ (DLBP). The strategies to obtain the dominant patterns may either keep knowledge of the patterns labels or discard it. It is the aim of this work to determine which is the best option. To this end the paper st...

The spread of an infectious disease is sensitive to the mixing patterns in the population and to precautions people take to reduce the transmission of the disease. We investigate the impact that different mixing assumptions have on the spread an infectious disease in an age-structured ordinary differential equation model. We consider the impact of heterogeneity in susceptibility and infectivity...

Dietary patterns reflect habitual exposure of foods and nutrients and are a preferred means to assess diet and disease relations. Our objective was to design a screening tool to assess diet quality and dietary patterns among older adults and to relate the patterns to markers of general health and nutrition status. We used a population-specific data-based approach to design a diet screening inst...