Obesity is considered as a gateway to chronic diseases and disabilities effecting all age groups of the population. Profound changes in society, worldwide nutrition transition and behavioural patterns of communities over recent decades reflect the rising epidemic. Prevention and management of obesity has become one of the most important objective of the health care sector.As obesity is a chroni...

Nowadays, plagiarism has been presented as one of the main distresses that the information technology revolution has lead into our society for which using pattern matching algorithms and intelligent data analysis approaches, these practices could be identified. Furthermore, a fast document copy detection algorithm could be used in large scale applications for plagiarism detection in academia, s...

(ISHRAT HUSAIN) Most of the attention on Islamic finance has so far been focused on the regulatory framework, products and services offered, comparability with conventional finance, risk management characteristics, Shariah compliance, and expansion and penetration issues. Very little work has been done to explore the unique features of Islamic finance for the larger good of the society particul...

In this paper we examine emerging ways to describe and structure learning material, learning tasks and learning situations. In particular, we consider three different approaches, looking at common issues and differences in emphasis. The approaches are: learning patterns [1], inspired by the architectural patterns of Alexander [2]; learning design, as described in the IMS Learning Design specifi...

Mathematical competence requires pattern recognition for appropriate application of concepts and procedures. Research demonstrates that interventions targeting perceptual learning (PL) improve math performance. Little research, however, has directly investigated encoding changes, measured psychophysically, that may accompany PL gains in real-world tasks. We sought evidence of lasting encoding c...

This article first discusses the characteristics of scientific research in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), and then lays out its basic e-management demands. In building a scientific research e-management platform (SREMP), attention must be paid to the characteristics of its data and structure. The data in the SREMP of HSS domains have multiformity. That is, their structure should be a...

Data is in a very important position for pattern recognition tasks including eye gaze estimation. In the literature, most researchers used normal face datasets, which are not specifically designed for eye gaze estimation. As a result, it is difficult to obtain fine labeled eye gaze direction. Therefore large datasets with well-defined gaze directions are desired. To facilitate related researche...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while subjects monitored a visually presented sequence of stimuli that provided information about both a temporal pattern (rhythm) and a spatial pattern, and responded to rhythmical or spatial deviants. A third task, which required the monitoring of the same sequence for screen flickers served as a perceptual baseline condition and controlled for re...

Topics covered: 1. What is disturbance? 2. Characteristics of disturbances and disturbance regimes 3. Role of disturbance in ecosystems and landscapes 4. Factors affecting disturbances 5. Feedback mechanisms affecting disturbance regimes 6. Interactions among the physical template, biotic processes and disturbance regimes 7. Human effects on disturbance regimes 8. Resource management implications.