In this paper we present methods for triangulation of infinite cylinders from image line silhouettes. We show numerically that linear estimation a general quadric surface is inherently badly posed problem. Instead propose to constrain the conic section circle, and give algebraic constraints on dual conic, models manifold. Using these derive fast minimal solver based three silhouette lines, can ...

We report numerical performance of self-adaptive triangulation approach to improve numerical solutions of Poisson equations using bivariate spline functions. Starting with a uniform triangulation, we use the gradient values of an initial spline solution to generate an updated triangulation. Both refining and coarsening the initial triangulation are combined together and a global triangulation i...

Given a set S of disjoint line segments in the plane, which we call sites, a segment triangulation of S is a partition of the convex hull of S into sites, edges, and faces. The set of faces is a maximal set of disjoint triangles such that the vertices of each triangle are on three distinct sites. The segment Delaunay triangulation of S is the segment triangulation of S whose faces are inscribab...

Classical bourgeois political theory articulated the political revolution that established possessive individualism as the basis of legitimate government and the foundation of civil society. In this respect, it inaugurated the systematic investigation of the objective rules governing subjective human existence. The work of Thomas Hobbes and of John Locke, like classical political economy and mo...

OBJECTIVES Published negative studies should have the same rigour of methodological quality as studies with positive findings. However, the methodological quality of negative versus positive studies is not known. The objective was to assess the reported methodological quality of positive versus negative studies published in Indian medical journals. DESIGN A systematic review (SR) was performe...

BACKGROUND Mounting evidence suggests that holding multiple concurrent jobs in public and private (dual practice) is common among health workers in low- as well as high-income countries. Nurses are world's largest health professional workforce and a critical resource for achieving Universal Health Coverage. Nonetheless, little is known about nurses' engagement with dual practice. METHODS We c...

In traditional economics the decision-making process for individuals currently has effectively no role for ethics, as individuals are self-interested. The key concepts in economics which determine the role of ethics in the decision-making process are utility, rationality and methodological individualism and hence how these can be and are formulated and combined determines different roles for et...

In an essay published in 1973 James Doull defined the organization of contemporary society in terms of two principles, “an unlimited technical and economic expansion” and “the utopian confidence that men can live together in unity of purpose.” His purpose was to demonstrate the continuing validity of the tripartite Hegelian analysis of the modern state against subsequent criticism. He located t...

New institutionalism is an approach to the study of social events that is becoming increasingly popular. Different lines of new institutional research can be distinguished. In one line of research it is argued that the social sciences should transcend reductionist modes of explanation, in particular the methodological individualism exemplified by the theory of rational choice. In this view, red...

This study was to examine the effect of triangulation on depression in children. Clinical samples and nonclinical samples were taken from Utah and Illinois. Families were assessed for marital satisfaction and stability, family triangulation, and children’s depression levels by the Marital Adjustment Test, Marital Status Inventory, Nuclear Family Triangulation, and Children’s Depression Inventor...