We will describe our ongoing work on learning-based methods for recovering 3D human body pose and motion from single images and from monocular image sequences. The methods work directly with raw image observations and require neither an explicit 3D body model nor a prior labelling of body parts in the image. Instead, they recover the body pose or motion by direct nonlinear regression against sh...

in this work some quantitative structure activity relationship models were developed for prediction of three bioenvironmental parameters of 28 volatile organic compounds, which are used in assessing the behavior of pollutants in soil. these parameters are; half-life, non dimensional effective degradation rate constant and effective péclet number in two type of soil. the most effective descripto...

In epidemiology, the regression discontinuity design has received increasing attention recently and might be an alternative to randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate treatment effects. In regression discontinuity, treatment is assigned above a certain threshold of an assignment variable for which the treatment effect is adjusted in the analysis. We performed simulations and a validatio...

As right quoted by MT Barrett, “of all the phases of anatomic study in human system, one of the most complex is the pulp cavity morphology.” The external and internal morphology of the tooth varies from person to person. For each tooth in permanent dentition, there is a wide range of variation reported in literature with the respect to frequency of occurrence of the number and shape of the cana...

In this paper, we derive a nonlinear equation of corneal asphericity (Q) using the tangential radius of curvature (rt) on every semi-meridian. We transform the nonlinear equation into the linear equation and then obtain the Q-value of corneal semi-meridian by the linear regression method. We find the 360 semi-meridional variation rule of the Q-value using polynomial function. Furthermore, we co...

Nutlets of 20 taxa of the tribe Marrubieae were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and detailed descriptions of nutlet micromorphological features for all examined taxa are provided. The nutlets exhibited variation in size, shape, color and surface sculpturing. The nutlets shape of most species studied is ovate, but rounded, broad ovate, elliptic, lanceolate, triangular and oblong c...

introduction studies about the health effects of long-term average exposure to outdoor air pollution have played an important role in the recent health impact assessments. exposure assessment for epidemiological studies of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution remains a difficult challenge because of substantial small-scale spatial variation. current approaches for assessing intra-urban ai...