Effect of stretching and bending on the measured tension The method proposed in this study measures the displacement of individual SFs by applying an external force perpendicular to the fiber axis. Although the method enables us to measure tensions, it also generates other undesired forces in the SFs due to phenomena such as stretching and bending. Here, we estimate the stretching and bending f...

SPAR (Speech-Pattern Algorithms and Representations) is the name given to the consortium of University College London, Imperial College, GEC Hirst Research Centre, Plessey Research and Leeds University funded under Alvey Project MMI-09. The project is concerned with advanced speech analysis algorithms, and from the outset saw the need for a system for speech data management. The SPAR Speech Fil...

We present an exact, closed expression for the expected neutral Site Frequency Spectrum for two neutral sites, 2-SFS, without recombination. This spectrum is the immediate extension of the well known single site θ/f neutral SFS. Similar formulae are also provided for the case of the expected SFS of sites that are linked to a focal neutral mutation of known frequency. Formulae for finite samples...

SUMMARY Although the popularity of longitudinal brachioplasty has grown tremendously in recent years, dealing with the unpredictable scar remains a challenge for the surgeon and the patient. The scar often heals slowly and widens over time, perpetuated by the effects of gravity, body movements, and the thin nature of the superficial fascial system (SFS) of the arm. Scar widening may correlate w...

Geometrical reconstruction from multiple cameras can now concurrence classical reconstruction. Shape From Silhouette (SFS)[4] is a method that estimates the Visual Hull, in real time from observed silhouette in each view. Despite the fact that SFS is really simple and robust, it produces ghost parts : a set of 3D points that does not belong to real objects. These parts can significantly disturb...

In this paper, we demonstrate the use of shape-from-shading (SfS) to improve both the quality and the robustness of 3D reconstruction of dynamic objects captured by a single camera. Unlike previous approaches that made use of SfS as a post-processing step, we offer a principled integrated approach that solves dynamic object tracking and reconstruction and SfS as a single unified cost function. ...

BACKGROUND SmokeFree Sports (SFS) was a multi-component sport-for-health intervention aiming at preventing smoking among nine to ten year old primary school children from North West England. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the process and implementation of SFS, examining intervention reach, dose, fidelity, acceptability and sustainability, in order to understand the feasibility and ch...

This paper suggests a discriminative approach for wavelet denoising where a set of shrinkage functions (SF) are designed to perform optimally (in a MSE sense) with respect to a given set of images. Using the suggested scheme a new set of SFs are generated which are different from the traditional soft/hard thresholding in the overcomplete case. These SFs are demonstrated to obtain the state-of-t...

Sulfated fucans (SFs) and sulfated galactans (SGs) are currently the marine non-glycosaminoglycan (GAG) sulfated glycans most studied in glycomics. These compounds exhibit therapeutic effects in several pathophysiological systems such as blood coagulation, thrombosis, neovascularization, cancer, inflammation, and microbial infections. As analogs of the largely employed GAGs and due to some limi...

Dissipative Kerr cavity solitons experience a so-called self-frequency shift (SFS) as a result of Raman interactions. The frequency shift has been observed in several microcavity systems. The Raman process has also been shown numerically to influence the soliton pumping efficiency. Here, a perturbed Lagrangian approach is used to derive simple analytical expressions for the SFS and the soliton ...