aim : the aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of preoperative abdominal ultrasonography in suspected appendicitis, and equivocal exam. background : acute appendicitis is a common problem and occasional challenging diagnosis in emergency department of every general hospital. patients and methods : within a period of one year from march 2007 through march 2008, all patient with suspecte...

    Condition Monitoring,   Oil Analysis, Wear Behavior,   Fuzzy Rule Based System   Maintenance , as a support function, plays an important role in manufacturing companies and operational organizations. In this paper, fuzzy rules used to interpret linguistic variables for determination of priorities. Using this approach, such verbal expressions, which cannot be explicitly analyzed or statistic...

generally speaking, lexical items that enter our minds through reading a text commonly leave us with pictures, sounds, echoes, and feelings in the mind. while the ability to produce images in the mind in the process of reading appears to be vital for greater comprehension and recall of texts, research has indicated that many poor readers seemingly do not visualize as they read. on the contrary,...

The evolution of technology is changing how people work within organizations. Information about customer consumption leads to a new era of business intelligence, wherein Big Data is analyzed to improve business. In this project we apply information visualization in the context of Big Data for product’s consumption. The aim of this project is to visualize the evolution of consumption, to detect ...

THIS CHAPTER PRESENTS THE PROjECT “X BY Y,” a visualization of all entries to the Prix Ars Electronica, a well-known media art award, from 1987 to 2009. The final version of the visualization consists of a series of large-scale prints, splitting up the submissions according to different criteria. This chapter describes the process leading up to the final piece, and the rationale for specific de...

The present study examined the impact of visualization and graphic organizers as pre-listening strategies on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement and their listening comprehension. To do so, this study was carried out in three listening classes at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The participants included 80 junior EFL university stude...

Legends were used to combine Cavepainting strokes with the data being visualized. CavePainting strokes added to the legend indicate how the final visualization element changes in response to a particular data type. The lower portion of the legend shows miniature versions of the final visualization element. There is one legend per data attribute visualized. Shown below are the pressure legends f...