OBJECTIVE To test the feasibility of training laywomen as professional patients to teach doctors to fit the contraceptive diaphragm. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews with instructing doctors and questionnaires to DFFP trainees. These documented current teaching practice and the acceptability of professional patients. The Delphi technique was used to establish a curriculum for the professiona...

Abstract The unbinned maximimum likelihood fitting method, used in many current analyses including Belle’s measurements of sin and lifetimes, maximizes the use of available information to obtain the shape of a distribution in the face of limited statistics. However, a significant difficulty is that there has been no method for evaluating goodness-of-fit for the result. We examine some issues su...

Active Appearance Model (AAM) represents the shape and appearance of an object via two low-dimensional subspaces, one for shape and one for appearance. AAM for facial images is currently receiving considerable attention from the computer vision community. However, most existing work focuses on fitting an AAM to a single image. For many applications, effectively fitting an AAM to video sequences...

Active Appearance Models (AAMs) represent the shape and appearance of an object via two low-dimensional subspaces, one for shape and one for appearance. AAMs for facial images are currently receiving considerable attention from the vision community. However, most existing work focuses on fitting AAMs to high-quality facial images. For many applications, effectively fitting an AAM to low-resolut...

Co-channel interference is a major factor in limiting the capacity and link quality in cellular communications. As the co-channel interference is modeled by lognormal distribution, sum of the co-channel interferences of neighboring cells is represented by the sum of lognormal Random Variables (RVs) which has no closed-form expression. Assuming independent, identically distributed (iid) RVs, the...

The computational complexity of ab initio electronic structure methods can be decreased through the so-called density fitting scheme. The density fitting scheme is also known as resolution of identity (RI). Density fitting schemes became a popular approach to approximate the four-centre two-electron integrals which appear in the computation of the Fock matrix in the Hartree-Fock (HF) method. In...

We propose a method for fitting a piecewise parametric curve to a sequence of digitized points such as those acquired from a computer mouse or digitizing pen. The fitting is done on-the-fly rather than after a complete sequence of points has been acquired, thereby providing high quality parameterized curves for immediate display during drawing. The method is fast, accurate, and robust, handles ...