Human nose, while being in many cases the only facial feature clearly visible during the head motion, seems to be very undervalued in face tracking technology. This paper shows theoretically and by experiments conducted with ordinary USB cameras that, by properly defining nose – as an extremum of the 3D curvature of the nose surface, nose becomes the most robust feature which can be seen for al...

Ninety patients participated in a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled comparison of terfenadine with astemizole in the treatment of hay fever. They entered the trial as a cohort before the grass pollen season and recorded daily their symptoms of itching eyes, sneezing, running nose, and blocked nose on visual analogue scales in diary cards. Over the eight weeks of the trial astemizole ...