BACKGROUND Infrared thermography is an aid tool that can be used to evaluate several pathologies given its efficiency in analyzing the distribution of skin surface temperature. OBJECTIVES To propose two forms of infrared image analysis of the masticatory and upper trapezius muscles, and to determine the intra and inter-rater reliability of both forms of analysis. METHOD Infrared images of m...

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is used as the raw material in more than fifty industries and also main source of materials textile, oil, animal feed, paper industries. Additionally, it a crop great economic importance for its producer countries with added value employment opportunities. among crops sensitive to weed competition yield decreases weeds. For this reason, control treatments should b...

Abstract: Sugarcane cultivar RB961552 was developed by the Breeding Program of Federal University Alagoas, a member university RIDESA. It selected for being highly productive, responsive to fertigation and high leaf biomass excellent inter-row closure. is resistant brown orange rust moderately scald smut diseases.

human action recognition is an important problem in computer vision. one of the methods that are recently used is sparse coding. conventional sparse coding algorithms learn dictionaries and codes in an unsupervised manner and neglect class information that is available in the training set. but in this paper for solving this problem, we use a discriminative sparse code based on multi-manifolds. ...

The results of experimental studies free-convective heat transfer single-, double- and four-row bundles finned tubes without with an exhaust shaft are presented. It is shown that the inter-tube spacing significantly affects energy efficiency bundle. optimum 61 mm for single-row, about 70 double-row, over bundles. With increase number rows in bundle specific capacity increases, but rate its decr...

Modern agriculture promotes non-inversion, ploughless tillage systems, and simplified plant cultivation methods. Environmentally friendly production technologies must nevertheless guarantee high yields of good quality. In the years 2017/18–2019/20, studies were carried out in which it was assumed that these conditions could be met by strip soil with simultaneous application fertilisers paired-r...

This study investigated the quality of metacognition at its inter-individual level, i.e., socially-shared metacognition, across two collaborative writing tasks of different difficulty levels among a cohort of Iranian EFL learners.  Moreover, it examined the correlation between the individual and the social modes of metacognition in writing.  The analysis of think-aloud protocols of a number of ...

{luwan2, cdong3, dchen}@illinois.edu Enabling Hardware Support for Fast Data Relay Architectural overview: Host CPU initializes the kernel computation on our FDR-CGRA. DMA is in charge of system-level dataflow. FDR-CGRA can focus on accelerating time-consuming kernels. Processing elements: Support concurrent computation and communication with dedicated computing path and bypassing path for Fast...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the inter- and intra-observer reliability of both qualitative and quantitative parameters used in the assessment of nail-fold capillaroscopy images. METHODS Fifty mosaic nail-fold images of healthy controls (n = 10), patients with primary RP (n = 10) and SSc (n = 30) were assessed in random order by two blinded observers on two occasions at centres in Sweden, UK and T...