although, most of the abnormal structures of human brain do not alter the shape of outer envelope of brain (surface), some abnormalities can deform the surface extensively. however, this may be a major problem in a surface-based registration technique, since two nearly identical surfaces are required for surface fitting process. a type of verification known as the circularity check for the shap...

Nearly 2 decades ago, local Ca 2 release events during diastole were first observed and named Ca sparks.1 These were originally attributed to large releases from single ryanodine receptor (RyR) channels.1 Subsequently, Lipp and Niggli proposed that Ca sparks could be the summation of smaller releases recruited from within the same cluster and coined the term calcium quarks.2 Arduous experiments...

An Eye estimation technique has been developed, using a non-intrusive machine vision based concepts. The system uses a small monochrome security camera that points directly towards the driver’s face and monitors the driver’s eyes in order to detect fatigue This paper describes how to find the eyes, and determine the status of the eyes are open or closed. An application of Viola Jones algorithm ...

A number of prominent researchers in Artificial Intelligence look forward to a time when androids will co-exist with humans. In such a world the question ‘Can machines think?’ will be answered in the affirmative, if it is asked at all. A far more pressing problem will be whether androids can be differentiated from humans in some way. It is argued that an undetectable android cannot be manufactu...

A current debate is whether increased looking time in infancy is related to violation of expectations. In this study, 6- to 9-month-old infants' brain activity was analyzed during presentation of correct and incorrect solutions to simple arithmetic equations [(e.g., presentation of 1 + 1; one doll on a TV monitor, with another doll added from behind a screen, followed by a solution of 2 (correc...

Meghan Baker, MD, ScD; Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH, FIDSA; Alyssa R. Letourneau, MD, MPH; Rebecca E. Kaganov, BA; Jennifer R. Peeples, MPH; Marci Drees, MD, MS, FACP; Deborah S. Yokoe, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; CDC Prevention Epicenters Program; Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute Boston, MA; Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; University of California Irvine School ...

How do individuals detect inconsistencies? According to the theory described in this article, they search for a possibility represented in a mental model, in which each proposition in a description is true. If they find such a possibility, the description is consistent; otherwise, it is inconsistent. Evidence corroborates the theory. The evaluation of consistency is easy when the first possibil...

Physically-aware N-detect (PAN-detect) test improves defect coverage by exploiting defect locality. This paper presents physically-aware test selection (PATS) to efficiently generate PAN-detect tests for large industrial designs. Compared to traditional N-detect test, the quality resulting from PAN-detect is enhanced without any increase in test execution cost. Experiment results from an IBM in...