Objective: The objective of this cross-sectional study was to determine the prevalence rate of bronchial asthma among Saudi School boys (in three different schools,named Al Fauaz, Saffwan and Al Abana) at Ahad Rubaida city,district Abha,Assir region, Saudi Arabia. Another objective was to study and compare the prevalence of other allergenic diseases and environmental factors associated with bro...

The use of color in QR codes brings extra data capacity, but also inflicts tremendous challenges on the decoding process due to chromatic distortion—cross-channel color interference and illumination variation. Particularly, we further discover a new type of chromatic distortion in high-density color QR codes—cross-module color interference—caused by the high density which also makes the geometr...

AdvancedVery HighResolutionRadiometer (AVHRR) data have been extensively used for global land-cover classiŽ cation, but few studies have taken direct and full advantage of the multi-year properties of AVHRR data. This study focused on generating eVective classiŽ cation features from multi-year AVHRR data to improve classiŽ cation accuracy.Three types of features were derived from 12-year monthl...

Real-time human activity recognition on a mobile phone is presented in this article. Unlike in most other studies, not only the data were collected using the accelerometers of a smartphone, but also models were implemeted to the phone and the whole classification process (preprocessing, feature extraction and classification) was done on the device. The system is trained using phone orientation ...

Members of the fungal genus Fusarium can produce numerous secondary metabolites, including the nonribosomal mycotoxins beauvericin (BEA) and enniatins (ENNs). Both mycotoxins are synthesized by the multifunctional enzyme enniatin synthetase (ESYN1) that contains both peptide synthetase and S-adenosyl-l-methionine-dependent N-methyltransferase activities. Several Fusarium species can produce ENN...

EMPs Extended morphological profiles EMPs Extended morphological profiles LDA Linear discriminant analysis LogDA Logarithmic discriminant analysis MLR Multinomial logistic regression MLRsubMRF Subspace-based multinomial logistic regression followed by Markov random fields MPs Morphological profiles MRFs Markov random fields PCA Principal component analysis QDA Quadratic discriminant analysis RH...

Results are presented from support vector machine (SVM), linear and quadratic discriminant analysis (LDA and QDA) and k-nearest neighbors (kNN) methods of binary classification of fire debris samples as positive or negative for ignitable liquid residue. Training samples were prepared by computationally mixing data from ignitable liquid and substrate pyrolysis databases. Validation was performed...

Sun-dried beef is a frequently consumed and valued product in Brazil, however, there have been no scientific studies on its texture. To assess the tenderness of sun-dried beef, an instrumental analysis (Warner-Bratzler Shear Force; WBSF), a sensory analysis (Quantitative Descriptive Analysis; QDA) and the sarcomere length (SL) were used as indicators. Significant differences were observed among...