ankyloglossia (tongue-tie) is a congenital anomaly with a prevalence of 4-5% and characterized by an abnormally short lingual frenulum. for unknown reasons the abnormality seems to be more common in males. the pathogenesis of ankyloglossia is not known. the authors report a family with isolated ankyloglossia inherited as an autosomal dominant or recessive trait. the identification of the defect...

four chinese pomegranate (punica granatum l.) cultivars were analyzed for their individual flavonols and flavones (in fruit peel extracts) using high performance liquid chromatography (hplc), with changes in flavonols and flavones as occurring during fruit development. the results revealed the presence of kaempferol, quercetin, myricetin, luteolin, and apigenin in all the four cultivars. in add...

separation anxiety disorder (sad) is characterized by developmentally inappropriate and excessive anxiety concerning separation from home or those to whom the individual is attached. literature suggests that child attachment and anxiety symptoms are related. the aim of this study is to discover which symptoms of separation anxiety were associated with avoidant and/or ambivalent attachment. a to...

A novel approach to visual leaf identification is proposed. A leaf is represented by a pair of local feature histograms, one computed from the leaf interior, the other from the border. The histogrammed local features are an improved version of a recently proposed rotation and scale invariant descriptor based on local binary patterns (LBPs). Describing the leaf with multi-scale histograms of rot...

This paper presents a novel weight-based approach to recognize facial expressions from the near-infrared (NIR) video sequences. Facial expressions can be thought of as specific dynamic textures where local appearance and motion information need to be considered. The face image is divided into several regions from which local binary patterns from three orthogonal planes (LBP-TOP) features are ex...

Local Binary Patterns (LBPs) have been used in a wide range of texture classification scenarios and have proven to provide a highly discriminative feature representation. A major limitation of LBP is its sensitivity to affine transformations. In this work, we present a scale- and rotation-invariant computation of LBP. Rotation-invariance is achieved by explicit alignment of features at the extr...

In 1992 neurophysiologists [20] found a new type of cells in areas V1 and V2 of the monkey primary visual cortex, which they called grating cells. These cells respond vigorously to a grating pattern of appropriate orientation and periodicity. Three years later a computational model inspired by these findings was published [9]. The study of this paper is to create a grating cell operator that ha...

Script identification is very important to develop the scripts OCR systems. In this paper, we proposed a new algorithm for script identification based on the global and local texture of document images. The BEMD method is used to decompose the image to some components (IMFs) and then the Local Binary Patterns (LBP) method is used to detect the features. Experiments shown the recognition rate ba...

For dietary surveillance in the United States, the preferred method for collecting dietary intake data is the 24-hour dietary recall. However, researchers are interested in usual intake (i.e. long-term average daily intake). Researchers are also interested in exploring multiple dietary components collectively to consider dietary patterns, and consumption of these dietary components varies. Some...