BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate potential temperament endophenotypes for clinically significant importance of shape and weight. METHOD Seven temperament risk factors for eating disorders and the Eating Disorder Examination were assessed in 699 female twins aged 12-15 years. Each variable was evaluated against the following endophenotype criteria: associated with illness in t...

BACKGROUND Health care experts, older people and carers were asked to weight 18 personal and social activities of daily living (ADLs) with regard to the importance of being able to perform them. RESULTS All groups agreed on the order of importance but experts gave greater weight to personal ADLs. We have used these results to produce a ratio scale.

introduction with increasing development of urban communities and increase of population in towns, thus the need for water is also increased in the recent years. production rate of municipal wastewater has also grown dramatically. on the other hand, increase of public awareness about the water pollution problems has followed the new and stricter environmental laws concerning wastewater discharg...

OBJECTIVE Pervasive weight stigma and discrimination have led to ongoing calls for efforts to reduce this bias. Despite increasing research on stigma-reduction strategies, perspectives of individuals who have experienced weight stigma have rarely been included to inform this research. The present study conducted a systematic examination of women with high body weight to assess their perspective...

This paper offers a novel approach to the indirect photon mapping method. The placement of photons acting as virtual light sources is regarded as a cheap sampling scheme, allowing for the reuse of a complete shooting path at the cost a single shadow ray. In order to counter for its shortcomings, the variance reduction technique called weighted importance sampling is applied. This allows for the...

This chapter is dedicated to scope of the application of Importance Sampling Techniques to the design phase of Neyman-Pearson Neural Detectors. This phase usually requires the application of MonteCarlo trials in order to estimate some performance parameters. The classical Monte-Carlo method is suitable to estimate high event probabilities but not suitable to estimate very low event probabilitie...

The process to certify highly Automated Vehicles has not yet been defined by any country in the world. Currently, companies test Automated Vehicles on public roads, which is time-consuming and inefficient. We proposed the Accelerated Evaluation concept, which uses a modified statistics of the surrounding vehicles and the Importance Sampling theory to reduce the evaluation time by several orders...