This paper presents GraphBPT, a tool for hierarchical representation of images based on binary partition trees. It relies on a new BPT construction algorithm that have interesting tuning properties. Besides, access to image pixels from the tree is achieved efficiently with data compression techniques, and a textual representation of BPT is also provided for interoperability. Finally, we illustr...

Benchmarked algorithms. For each scene we show images rendered with (1) path tracing (PT), (2) bidirectional path tracing (BPT), (3) stochastic progressive photon mapping (PPM), (4) a combination of BPT and PPM based on a heuristic caustic path classification (BPT-PPM), two variants of Metropolis light transport: (5) MLTVeach [Veach and Guibas 1997]) and (6) MLT-Kelemen [Kelemen et al. 2002], a...

AIM To investigate the effect of basic periodontal therapy (BPT) with antimicrobials (AM) on the parameters of metabolic syndrome (MetS) (waist circumference, systolic/diastolic blood pressure [BP], HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose). METHODS One hundred and ten periodontitis patients without known comorbidities and unaware of possible MetS were randomly assigned to BPT (n = 56) or BPT+...

Behavioral parent training (BPT) is an evidence-based intervention for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related disruptive behavioral disorders of childhood. Despite convincing data on effectiveness, engagement to BPT, particularly for high-risk families, has been a long standing, yet understudied, issue. Data from a clinical trial of a comprehensive BPT appr...

The present study examines the potential of sequencing a neurocognitive intervention with behavioral parent training (BPT) to improve executive functions (EFs), psychiatric symptoms, and multiple indices of functional impairment in school-age children aged 7 to 11 years who have been diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Specifically, in a randomized controlled trial d...

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and substance use disorders often co-occur. Both disorders are heritable and family studies showed that there are familial factors that increase the risk for BPD as well as substance use/abuse. This is the first study that investigates whether the association of borderline personality traits (BPT) with substance use reflects an underlying genetic vulnerabil...

This article focuses on Descartes’s vision how the dimensions of organism connect with each other. Re-reading Descartes is proposed as an antidote against endemic cultural dualism, in a world which medical institutions, still describe human beings using dualistic terms such ‘psychosomatic’, ‘body psychotherapy’, or ‘body-mind’ systems. It also introduces early scientific researcher who develope...

◆ People with asthma are excluded from some occupations, including service in the Australian Defence Force, and asthma can be exacerbated by some occupations, making it desirable to identify currently active asthma and assess its severity in potential entrants. ◆ Objective testing of asthma is by bronchial provocation test (BPT). There are two types of BPT: direct and indirect. Pharmacological ...

This paper proposes a new spectral transformation for speaker normalization. We use the Bilinear Transformation (BLT) to introduce a new frequency warping resulting from a mapping of a prototype Band-Pass (BP) filter into a general BP filter. This new transformation called “Band-Pass Transform” (BPT) offers two degrees of freedom enabling complex warpings of the frequency axis and different fro...

In the mol-ecular structure of the centrosymmetric mononuclear complex [Ni(2-bpt)(2)(H(2)O)(2)](ClO(4))(2) [2-bpt = 4-amino-3,5-di-2-pyridyl-1,2,4-triazole, (C(12)H(10)N(6))], the central Ni(II) atom is six-coordinated by a pair of chelating 2-bpt ligands and two water mol-ecules. Inter-molecular O-H⋯N inter-actions link the monomeric units into a two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded (4,4) network, ...