BACKGROUND Subendocardial strain analysis is currently feasible in two-dimensional and three-dimensional (3D) echocardiography; however, there is a lack of clarity regarding the most useful strain component for subclinical disease detection. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that strain analysis along the direction of strongest and weakest systolic compression (referred to as pri...

when the number of training samples is limited, feature reduction plays an important role in classification of hyperspectral images. in this paper, we propose a supervised feature extraction method based on discriminant analysis (da) which uses the first principal component (pc1) to weight the scatter matrices. the proposed method, called da-pc1, copes with the small sample size problem and has...

t is the purpose of this paper to contribute to the discussion initiated bywachter about the parallelism between principal component (pc) and atypological grade of membership (gom) analysis. the author testedempirically the close relationship between both analysis in a lowdimensional framework comprising up to nine dichotomous variables and twotypologies. our contribution to the subject is also...

Abstract Soil management decisions should consider physical potential of the environment, weather variability, and requirements crops to maximize production limits. This calls for characterization environments using selected input variables. Such studies are scanty in southern central Rift Valley Ethiopia due which area is considered homogeneous identical agricultural planning, extension, deliv...

as widespread deserts is located in west and southwest of iran plateau, dust storms form due to west andsouthwest systems over syria or iraq as well as arabian peninsula. these systems severely affect west and southwestregions. sometimes the fine dusts transmit to central, north east, and east regions. in this study for investigating dustysynoptical patterns, meteorological data at 5 synoptic s...

background: in order to check the practicality of classification of universities of medical sciences (umss) based on their infrastructures, and scientific contributions, this study explored the most appropriate indicators to measure the size and productivity of umss. methods: in the first phase, we approached a group of experts who had a deep experience in the management of umss and in the mini...