background: polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) has been shown to cause a reduction in health-related quality of life (hrqol). objective:  this study examines the extent of different clinical symptoms in pcos patients on hrqol. materials and methods:  a cross-sectional study was undertaken to ascertain the factors related to hrqol in 200 pcos patients in kashan, iran. main outcome measures were ...

Most emotion recognition systems do not perform real-time emotion recognition due to latencies caused by phrase segmentation and resource-intensive feature acquisition, etc. To address this issue, we present an emotion recognition approach that can estimate speaker emotions with much lower latency. The proposed approach does not rely on phrase-level features to recognize speaker emotion; rather...

In this paper, we describe an entry to the third Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge, EmotiW2015. We detail the associated experiments and show that, through more accurately locating the facial landmarks, and considering only the distances between them, we can achieve a surprising level of performance. The resulting system is not only more accurate than the challenge baseline, but also mu...

This paper introduces xTrust, a general purpose security framework that supports a wide range of applications and security mechanisms in a way that makes trust highly visible. It provides basic services for identifying paths between peers that are trusted for specific purposes, and for utilizing those paths for the trustworthy exchange of information. The design of the system is based on four g...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide organizations which are keen to implement wikis with insight into its usefulness and possible role in the knowledge sharing and management process through lessons learnt from implementation of wikis by organizations ranging from SMEs with less than ten users to those with a vast network of 193 million members. These organizations are from the no...

Supply chain management (SCM) has been a major component of competitive strategy to enhance organizational productivity and profitability. The literature on SCM that deals with strategies and technologies for effectively managing a supply chain is quite vast. In recent years, organizational performance measurement and metrics have received much attention from researchers and practitioners. The ...

The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge andWorkshop (AVEC 2011) is the first competition event aimed at comparison of multimedia processing and machine learning methods for automatic audio, visual and audiovisual emotion analysis, with all participants competing under strictly the same conditions. This paper first describes the challenge participation conditions. Next follows the data used – the SEM...

Background and Objectives: Studies investigating life skills and general health have mainly focused on some skills or parts of health. In this study, ten components of skills and three components of general health were examined in patients presenting to veterans’ health and counseling centers in Tehran and the relationship between each skill and multiple levels of general health was assessed. ...

A general development and automatic management platform for e-service systems is essential for e-service systems to always deliver satisfying, up-to-date, and trustworthy services cost-effectively to its customers, no matter where they are, when they want them, and how they access them. Following an applicationdriven approach, this paper derives the functional architecture of a general developm...

Wang, Wenbo. Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Wright State University, 2015. Automatic Emotion Identification from Text. Peoples emotions can be gleaned from their text using machine learning techniques to build models that exploit large self-labeled emotion data from social media. Further, the self-labeled emotion data can be effectively adapted to train emotion classifie...