The volume of digital images has increased dramatically in recent years and as a result a crisis is now taking place within a broad range of disciplines that need and use visual material. Whilst storage and capture technologies are able to cope with the huge numbers of images, poor image retrieval is in danger of rendering many repositories valueless because of the difficulty of access. These p...

TOPIC Crisis situations of youth in treatment settings may require restraints. Restraints should only be used in situations where there is imminent danger to the child and when there is no alternative. They are meant to maintain the child's safety, but there is risk for respiratory compromise. PURPOSE Nursing care of children in restraints must include respiratory assessment and, when indicat...

Porphyrias are inherited metabolic disorders resulting from a specific enzyme defect in the heme biosynthetic pathway. Porphyrias are induced by various precipitants. Clinical features include abdominal pain, neurologic manifestations, autonomic neuropathy, and mental disturbance. Diagnosis may be delayed because of variable symptoms that mimic other diseases and because of the rarity of of por...

ecological studies of language teaching have made it clear that for a better understanding of child’s developmental processes in different aspects, it is necessary to go through different layers of language teaching and to investigate them. one of these layers that can influence children’s culture, identity, and education, is media. in modern developing world, media has affected nearly all of t...

This paper presents the design and simulation of an intelligent fuzzy controller to control the flight movement of an airplane being present in the midst of targeted missiles. The objective is to have the in-flight airplane, when an imminent collision danger occurs, move in a direction so as to avoid being hit by any of the targeted missiles. The airplane senses the environment around it, acqui...

the asia-pacific region generates over half of global economic activity (54.2%) and about 43.7% of global trade, and is the most dynamic region in the global economy. at the core of this is an increasingly dynamic, vibrant and entrepreneurial small-medium sized enterprise sector. advances in information and communications technology, market liberalisation and moves towards closer regional econo...

landslide like phenomena such as earthquake, flood, and volcano eruption are considered as the important natural events which happen every year in the mountainous and the elevated regions of the country and incur substantial damages and losses. today, in the countries involved with the issue of earthquake sliding, there is an increasing tendency in evaluating and zoning of the danger and damage...