in this research work the classification of the southern coasts of the caspian sea is performed using sedimentary and morphodynamic indices. this includes field study of morphodynamic characteristics of the shore structures. field measurements include in situ samplings of sediments and actual observations of structures on site. these field activities were done along six transects in the dry coa...

The paper presents a non-linear quantization method for detail components in the JPEG2000 standard. The quantization step sizes are determined by actual statistics of the wavelet coefficients. Mean and standard deviation are the two statistical parameters used to obtain the step sizes. Moreover, weighted mean of the coefficients lying within the step size is chosen as quantized value contrary t...

Databases recording cattle exchanges offer unique opportunities for a better understanding and fighting of disease spreading. Most studies model contacts with (sequences of) networks, but this approach neglects important dynamical features of exchanges, that are known to play a key role in spreading. We use here a fully dynamic modeling of contacts and empirically compare the spreading outbreak...

We extend prior research on system call anomaly detection modeling methods for intrusion detection by incorporating dynamic window sizes. The window size is the length of the subsequence of a system call trace which is used as the basic unit for modeling program or process behavior. In this work we incorporate dynamic window sizes and show marked improvements in anomaly detection. We present tw...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of age-based formula (ABF) and height-based formula (HBF) for pediatric cardiac patients, including patients with failure to thrive (FTT). MATERIAL AND METHOD In a retrospective study of 260 cardiac patients that included those with failure to thrive, aged 2 to 7 years was done. The actual uncuffed endotracheal tube (ETT) size was compared with the predi...

Background: Assessment of food intake is a cornerstone of nutritional research. However, the use of minimally validated dietary assessment methods is common and can generate misleading results. Thus, there is a need for valid, precise and cost-effective dietary assessment tools to be used in large cohort studies. The objective is to validate a newly developed automated self-administered web-bas...

This study investigates whether the earliest words children choose to say are mainly words containing sounds they can produce (cf. 'phonological dominance' hypotheses), or whether children choose words without regard to their phonological characteristics (cf. 'lexical dominance' hypotheses). Phonological properties of words in spontaneous speech from six children age 0;8 to 2;11 were analyzed b...