background: the classical supportive therapy for î² -thalassemia major consists of regular blood transfusion, iron-chelation therapy and specific treatment of the related complications. a balance between the maintenance of the highest possible level of haemoglobin and lowest possible level of iron accumulation in heart and liver give the best chance of survival and the best quality of life. met...

Let C( -d) denote the Gauss Class Group of quadratic forms ofa negative discriminant -d (or equivalently, the class group of the imaginaryquadratic field Q(~)). We give a rigorous proof that there exists a Las Ve-gas algorithm that will compute the structure of C( -d) with an expected run-ning time of L( d) V2+o( 1) bit operations, where L( d) = exp( y'log d log log d) .Thus...

Log-linear modeling is advanced as a procedure to identify factors that underlie the relative frequency of occurrence of various accident characteristics, such as accident type, location, and severity. The method is centered on the estimation of saturated log-linear models for pairs of accident variables and determination of indices of association between categories of the variables. Using data...

Pedestrian detection is one of the most important research contents of road safety. The crucial idea behind such pedestrian safety systems is to protect the driver and pedestrian from any accident. In this paper, a pedestrian feature extraction based on applied log-Gabor filters is presented. The resulting filtered images show desirable segmentation performance which allows support vector machi...