BACKGROUND Within-person variation in dietary records can lead to biased estimates of the distribution of food intake. Quantile estimation is especially relevant in the case of skewed distributions and in the estimation of under- or over-consumption. The analysis of the intake distributions of occasionally-consumed foods presents further challenges due to the high frequency of zero records. Two...

In our work, a robot can proactively ask for help when necessary, based on its awareness of its sensing and actuation limitations. Approaches in which humans provide help to robots do not necessarily reason about the human availability and accuracy. Instead, we model the availability of humans in the robot’s environment and present a planning approach that uses such model to generate the robot ...

Bed bugs appear to be feared more than vector insects and other household pests. The reasons for this exaggerated fear are not fully understood. One hypothesis is that the folk knowledge on recognising and controlling bed bugs decreased as bed bugs became rarer in the 1960s and led to irrational perceptions. Here, we examine people's ability to recognise a bed bug and their response what to do ...

retained surgical gauze is occasionally observed in general practice. herein, we report a case with surgical gauze retained for over 13 years that created a fistula which drained pus into the stomach.

For purposes of this subpart: Bank holding company means any company that controls a bank (as provided in section 2 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841 et seq.)). Consultant. For purposes of this subpart, a consultant for a national bank, savings association, bank holding company, savings and loan holding company, or other company shall include only an individual who works d...

As cell phones have become essential tools for human communication and especially smartphones rise as suitable devices to implement ubiquitous computing, personalized intelligent services in smartphones are required. There are many researches to implement services, and an intelligent synthetic character is one of them. This paper proposes a structure of emotional intelligent synthetic character...

In this paper, a class of polyphase signature sequences for direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS/CDMA) systems is proposed. The proposed class has zero periodic (= even) cross-correlation (CC) function and approximate maximum magnitude of odd cross-correlation (OCC), where is the length of sequences. Although the maximum magnitude is relatively large, it is observed that the maximu...

A lot of effort in Qualitative Reasoning had been spent in the RCC-8 calculus. This paper proposes a calculus named OCC (Occlusion Calculus) closely related to Galton’s LOS-14 calculus, that is more expressive in a vision context. The OCC relations qualitatively describe configurations from two convex objects in the projective view from a 3D scene. To set OCC on a mathematical ground an axiomat...