Textures have an intrinsic multiresolution property due to their varying texel size. This suggests using multiresolution techniques in texture analysis. Recently linear scale space techniques along with multiple classifier systems have been proposed as an effective approach in texture classification especially at small sample sizes. However, linear scale space blurs and dislocates conceptually ...

Multiscale analysis initially proposed in image processing domain, turned out to be an effective tool in many other areas. It has been also proposed for motion data trajectories parametrized in quaternion space. In this paper we introduce novel approach, which is the framework for non-linear scale space analysis of quaternion trajectories. In the paper theoretical basis has been proposed and nu...

This paper describes a new algorithm which discovers the hierarchical organization of a document or media presentation. We use latent semantic indexing to describe the semantic content of the signal, and scale-space segmentation to describe its features at many different scales. We present results from a text document and a video transcript.

A great number of investigations on person characterization rely on the assessment of the Big-Five personality traits, a prevalent and widely accepted model with strong psychological foundation. However, in the context on characterizing unfamiliar individuals from their voices only, it may be hard for assessors to determine the Big-Five traits based on their first impression. In this study, a 2...

This research covered three villages in Kura local Government Area of Kano State. The study described the socio-economic characteristics of maize producers and their production techniques and also determined the profitability and resource use efficiency in the maize production. Structured questionnaires were used for primary data collection and 40 small scale producers were purposively selected...

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of free and microencapsulated Ziziphora clinopodioides Essential Oil (ZEO) and Nisin individually and in combinationon sensory characteristic and shelf life of fish burger during 20 days of storage at 4±1˚C. Fish burgers were prepared and treated with free and microencapsulated form of ZEO and Nisin in 15 treatments and evaluated by 20...

this research identifies returns to scale (rts) of efficient decision making units (dmus) with desirable (good) and undesirable (bad) inputs and outputs by presenting a new dea (data envelopment analysis) approach. in this study, we first introduce a new input-output oriented model to determine efficient dmus in the presence of undesirable factors and then, returns to scale of these dmus are es...

hospitals as the centers that consume the most resource of health system, based on their function have difference performance and efficiency. the purpose of this study was to assess the efficiency of ahvaz hospitals using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. this study is a descriptive-analytic study that assessed the efficiency of teaching and nonteaching hospitals in ahvaz using dea in 200...