This paper introduces a new approach for gait-based gender classification in which some key biomechanical poses of a gait pattern are represented by partial Gait Energy Images (GEIs). These pose-based GEIs can more accurately represent the shape of the body parts and some dynamic features with respect to the usually blurred depiction provided by a general GEI comprising all poses. Gait-based ge...

This paper demonstrates the benefit of applying the Gait-Energy Image (GEI) [15] and Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) [12] descriptors for action recognition. Multi-class Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification show promising results at 100% using leave-one-out cross validation. Furthermore, this technique gains 27◦ viewpoint tolerance and robustness to occlusions, clothing and carryi...

BACKGROUND It has been shown that gender equity has a positive impact on the everyday activities of people (decision making, income allocation, application and observance of norms/rules) which affect their health. Gender equity is also a crucial determinant of health inequalities at national level; thus, monitoring is important for surveillance of women's and men's health as well as for future ...

Heat tolerance is a target trait in the selective breeding of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius, as it plays an important role in the survival and growth of cultured S. intermedius during summer. We investigated family growth and survival response to two temperature treatments to evaluate the genotype by temperature interaction (GEI) in the family selection of S. intermedius. Sea ur...

Equivalence of access control models can be proved by comparing their expressive power. Tripunitara and Li [3] have given a generalized theoretical formulation for comparing expressive power of access control models via simulations that preserve security properties which are called state matching reductions. This report gives a formal proof of a state matching reduction from Group-Centric Colla...

Entrepreneurship is a significant economic process in regional development. This study aims to analyze the characteristics of Egyptian entrepreneurial ecosystem by using global entrepreneurship index (GEI) data from 2006–2017. empirical provides an in-depth insight into situation based on GEI methodology and its sub-indexes, pillars, individual institutional variables. Results revealed that “As...

Genotype × environmental interaction (GEI) is an important consideration in plant breeding programs because it reduces the progress from selection in any one environment (Hill, 1975). Significant GEI results from the changes in the magnitude of differences between genotypes in different environments or changes in the relative ranking of the genotypes. Consistent performances across different si...

BACKGROUND Canine gastroesophageal intussusception (GEI) is a rare and potentially fatal disease usually affecting puppies or young dogs < 3 months of age and of medium to large breeds. Surgical intervention has been advocated as the therapy of choice by most authors. Endoscopic treatment may offer an advantageous or alternative method of treatment. CASE PRESENTATION GEI was diagnosed in a ni...

In Tribolium flour beetles and other organisms, individuals migrate between heterogeneous environments where they often encounter markedly different nutritional conditions. Under these circumstances, theory suggests that genotype-by-environment interactions (GEI) may be important in facilitating adaptation to new environments and maintaining genetic variation for male traits subject to directio...