The Adaptive Boosting (AdaBoost) classifier is a widely used ensemble learning framework, and it can get good classification results on general datasets. However, challenging to apply the AdaBoost directly pulmonary nodule detection of labeled unlabeled lung CT images since there are still some drawbacks method. Therefore, solve data problem, semi-supervised using an improved sparrow search alg...

Faces are a behaviorally important class of visual stimuli for primates. Recent work in macaque monkeys has identified six discrete face areas where most neurons have higher firing rates to images of faces compared with other objects (Tsao et al., 2006). While neurons in these areas appear to have different tuning (Freiwald and Tsao, 2010; Issa and DiCarlo, 2012), exactly what types of informat...

The following was delivered by the author to the High Level American Meeting of Experts on The Challenges of Social Reform and New Administrative and Financial Management Techniques. The meeting, which took place September 5-7, 1994, in Mar del Plata, Argentina, was sponsored by the International Social Security Association at the invitation of the Argentine Secretariat for Social Security in c...

In this paper, an overview on sewage sludge characteristics and recovery routes is presented. Starting from an analysis of typical sewage sludge characteristics as found in literature, the most promising disposal options are presented. A focus on incinerated sewage sludge ash (ISSA) follows. Most of the authors agree on considering pyrolysis and gasification as the most viable treatments for sl...

1 Yannis Arvanitis is a Research Economist ([email protected]), African Development Bank. The author is grateful to Ron Leung and Issa Faye for fruitful discussions and useful comments, as well as to Defo Nelly Elza and Femi Adewole from Shelter Afrique, Kola Dairo and Subha Nagarajan for their peer reviews. The author is also thankful to Ahmed Jeridi for statistical assistance. Chief Econom...

Secure networks are crucial for IT systems and their proper operations as most applications work in the networking environment and closely depend on its performance, reliability, and security. Improper network design can be very expensive for a company (i.e., loss of business continuity, security incidents, costs of network rebuilding, etc.). Essential to network design is the security architec...

In March 2009, Trial Chamber I of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) issued its judgment in Prosecutor v. Issa Hassan Sesay, Morris Kallon and Augustine Gbao, known as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) case.1 The SCSL rendered the appeals judgment a short time later on October 26, 2009.2 The trial and appeals judgments in the RUF case were highly anticipated because the atrocities of ...

We read the article in May 2007 issue of the Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas, “Mesenteric panniculitis: experience in our center” by Delgado Plasencia et al. with a great interest (1). Mesenteric panniculitis, which is a rare disorder with an incidence of 0.6%, is characterized by a chronic non-specific inflammatory process involving the adipose tissue of intestinal mesentery. This ...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Antioxidant Potential and Storage Stability of Broiler Leg Meat Fed on Extruded Flaxseed and α­ tocopherol Acetate Rashida Parveen 1 * , Muhammad Issa Khan 1 , Faqir Muhammad Anjum and Munir Ahmad Sheikh 2 National Inst i tu te of Food Science and Technology, Universi ty of Agricul ture, Faisalabad, Pakis tan Depar tment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Universi ty of Agricul tur...

Background: Insulin resistance is a major risk factor in the development of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Some studies concluded that serum lipoproteins levels hence lipoprotein ratios were altered patients with insulin resistance. Objective: To identify possibility using as markers for Methods: A cross sectional study conducted Baghdad (Medical City) Maysan (Al Shaheed ...