The paradigm Biometrics for Emotion Detection (BED) is introduced, which enables unobtrusive emotion recognition, taking into account varying environments. It uses the electrocardiogram (ECG) and speech, as a powerful but rarely used combination to unravel people’s emotions. BED was applied in two environments (i.e., office and home-like) in which 40 people watched 6 film scenes. It is shown th...

zno thin film of 80 nm thickness was deposited by the sol-gel spin coating method on sio2/si substrate and subsequently post-annealed at 500°c with a flow of oxygen for 60 min. crystallographic structure of the sample was characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd) method while a field emission scanning electron microscope (fesem) was used to investigate the surface physical morphology and chemica...

We measure shear response in packings of glass beads by pulling a thin, rough, metal plate vertically through a bed of volume fraction φ, which is set, before the plate is pulled, in the range 0.575 to 0.628. The yield stress is velocity independent over 4 decades and increases exponentially with φ, with a transition at φ ≈ 0.595. An analysis of the measured force fluctuations indicates that th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies on the hyperdense middle cerebral artery (MCA) sign were conducted using > or =5-mm thickness noncontrast-computed tomography (NCT). The purpose of this study was to compare thin-section NCT with 5-mm NCT in the detection of thrombus in acute ischemic stroke. METHODS Enrolled were consecutive 51 patients with acute infarction in the anterior or MCA terr...

Existing fake website detection systems are unable to effectively detect fake websites. In this study, we advocate the development of fake website detection systems that employ classification methods grounded in statistical learning theory (SLT). Experimental results reveal that a prototype system developed using SLT-based methods outperforms seven existing fake website detection systems on a t...

INTRODUCTION World Health Organization had estimated 9.4 million tuberculosis cases on 2009, with 1.7 million of deaths as consequence of treatment and diagnosis failures. Improving diagnostic methods for the rapid and timely detection of tuberculosis patients is critical to control the disease. The aim of this study was evaluating the accuracy of the cord factor detection on the solid medium M...

objectives: malaria is the most important tropical disease in terms of morbidity and mortality. the diagnosis of malaria can be conveniently subdivided into clinical, parasitological, biochemical, serological and molecular biological detection. the objective of the present work was to compare two techniques, blood smear and pcr-rflp, for detection of plasmodium species. materials & method...

The common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, feeds on the blood of mammal and bird hosts, and is a pest of global importance. Semiochemicals are chemicals involved in animal communication that may affect behaviour and/or physiology. Attractive semiochemicals that play a role in mediating bed bug behaviour could be exploited for the development of a highly effective novel monitoring device. Tracking s...