S U M M A R Y The variation of frequency-dependent seismic wave attenuation with direction (attenuation anisotropy) contains additional information to that contained in velocity anisotropy. In particular, it has the potential to distinguish between different mechanisms that can cause velocity anisotropy. For example, aligned fracturing might be expected to cause measurable velocity and attenuat...

T o many people in this community, “multimedia” means multiple digitalmedia types, such as audio, images, and video. From audio/visual (AV) media, researchers can extract various AV features—for example, melfrequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) from audio, color moments from images, or motion vectors from videos—to represent the AV multimedia. Significant research has been done in feature extr...

Point clouds acquired by RGB-D camera-based indoor mobile mapping system suffer the problems of being noisy, exhibiting an uneven distribution, and incompleteness, which are the problems that introduce difficulties for point cloud planar surface segmentation. This paper presents a novel color-enhanced hybrid planar surface segmentation model for RGB-D camera-based indoor mobile mapping point cl...

Using cosmological N -body simulations we study the radial velocity distribution in dark matter haloes focusing on the lowest-order even moments, dispersion and kurtosis. We determine the properties of ten massive haloes in the simulation box approximating their density distribution by the NFW formula characterized by the virial mass and concentration. We also calculate the velocity anisotropy ...

We introduce a new approach to prove the regularity of solutions to transport equations of the Vlasov type. Our approach is mainly based on the proof of propagation of velocity moments, as in a previous paper by Lions and Perthame [16]. We combine it with Moment Lemmas which assert that, locally in space, velocity moments can be gained from the kinetic equation itself. We apply our theory to tw...

BACKGROUND The most common complication of lumbar puncture (LP) occurring in over thirty percent of patients is headache. The position after lumbar puncture, needle type and size, and volume of the extracted cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been evaluated as contributory factors in occurrence of post lumbar puncture headache (PLPH), but the position before lumbar puncture has not been evaluated. ...

Biomechanical comparison between rigid and non-rigid posterior stabilization systems following lumbar interbody fusion has been conducted in several studies. However, most of these previous studies mainly focused on investigating biomechanics adjacent spinal segments or spine stability. The objective the present study was to compare biomechanical responses devices when using different instrumen...

this paper presents a comparison study between the multilayer perceptron (mlp) and radial basis function (rbf) neural networks with supervised learning and back propagation algorithm to track hand gestures. both networks have two output classes which are hand and face. skin is detected by a regional based algorithm in the image, and then networks are applied on video sequences frame by frame in...

performing a probabilistic study rather than a determinist one is a relatively easy way to quantify the uncertainty in an engineering design. due to the complexity and poor accuracy of the statistical moment methods, the monte carlo simulation (mcs) method is wildly used in an engineering design. in this work, an mcs-based reliability analysis was carried out for the stability of the chain pill...