12 In this paper, we address the problem of how to accurately estimate the traffic 13 density of road segments from highly noisy image sources. Conventional traffic 14 density estimation techniques from camera feeds typically rely on high quality 15 images. Surprisingly, a large number of live feeds from traffic cameras in devel16 oping regions are highly noisy due to poor camera quality, poor ...

It is argued, on the basis of linear response theory (LRT), that new types of stochastic resonance (SR) are to be anticipated in diverse systems, quite different from the one most commonly studied to date, which has a static double-well potential and is driven by a net force equal to the sum of periodic and stochastic terms. On this basis, three new nonconventional forms of SR are predicted, so...

BACKGROUND In the nutrition literature, there are several reports on the use of artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) approaches for predicting feed composition and nutritive value, while the use of support vector machines (SVM) method as a new alternative approach to MLR and ANN models is still not fully investigated. METHODS The MLR, ANN, and SVM models were d...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of male broiler chickens in the period from 21 to 42 days of age fed diets with increasing levels of sunflower meal (sm) supplemented with an enzyme complex (ec). a total of 1920 animals of the cobb strain were distributed in a randomized block design in a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement (four sm levels and three enzymes utilization types)...

Conventional wastewater collection systems are installed to remove human wastes from households in cities and urban areas. This system demands high water supply rates as the wastes are flushed through pipes using water that flows under gravity. This system is capital extensive, and has been found to be not suitable in urban areas with smaller population sizes. Also, for the same reason, not sui...

Today, a “computer”, without further qualifications, denotes a rather well-specified kind of object; we’ll consider a computer “non-conventional” if its physical substrate or its organization significantly depart from this de facto norm. Thus, the thousands of literate Greeks that ended up in Rome as secretaries and accountants after the “liberation” of Greece in the second century b.c. would b...

The article takes its cue from models of quantitative research applied to complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) and pinpoints some innovative features in the case at issue (Portugal). It goes on to outline new research scenarios moving beyond the either biomedical or CAM framework.