background: the accurate results of the individual doses in personal dosimety which are reported by the service providers in personal dosimetry are very important. there are national / international criteria for acceptable dosimetry system performance. objective: in this research, the sources of uncertainties are identified, measured and calculated in a personal dosimetry system by tld. method:...

Background & Aims of the Study: Disregarding the health and use of polluted equipment in barbers lead to microbial infection expansion, skin diseases and particularly hematic diseases including AIDS and hepatitis. Hence, the aim of present study is determining the health condition of female barbers of Kangavar city, Iran, in order to improve the hea...

Introduction: Most electronic-cigarettes (e-cigarette) are designed to look like traditional cigarettes and simulate the visual, sensory, and behavioral aspects of smoking traditional cigarettes. This research aimed to explore whether different e-cigarette models and smokers' usual classic cigarettes can impact on cognitive performances, craving and gesture. Methods: The study is randomized cro...

∗ This work has been partially supported by INSERSO (Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales) and CYCIT grant #TIC94-0119. ABSTRACT The first prototype of a low cost dictation machine for Spanish is described (DIVO). The main characteristics of our recognition approach are: bottomup, hypothesis-verification strategy; large vocabulary, speaker dependent, isolated word recognition. Its modular structure i...

With the recent development of third-generation communication technologies, encoding live video using a PDA and sharing it among friends has become a reality. However, the embedded processor inside a PDA is still not powerful enough and there are two major hurdles to overcome: (1) video coding needs to meet the rigorous constraint of the available computation capacity of a PDA; (2) In a PDA the...

In this paper, the design of the overall architecture and the development of specific components of a supervised, automatic system for guidance of an ROV are described. Basically, automation is achieved by inserting a PC, equipped with A/D-D/A boards, in the operator/ROV loop. In this way, the original configuration of the ROV manual guidance system is substituted by a more versatile, user-frie...

Between 1822 and the late 1830s a highly personal priority dispute was fought between the celebrated surgeon and anatomist Sir Charles Bell and his ex-student Herbert Mayo. The dispute was over the motor and sensory functions of the Vth and VIIth cranial nerves. Over the course of the 1820s and the 1830s, the competing claims of Bell and Mayo were presented in newspapers, journals, and textbook...

A robust and efficient lane detection system is an essential component of Lane Departure Warning Systems, which are commonly used in many vision-based Driver Assistance Systems (DAS) in intelligent transportation. Various computation platforms have been proposed in the past few years for the implementation of driver assistance systems (e.g., PC, laptop, integrated chips, PlayStation, and so on)...

In the Information Technology era information plays vital role in every sphere of the human life. It is very important to gather data from different data sources, store and maintain the data, generate information, generate knowledge and disseminate data, information and knowledge to every stakeholder. Due to vast use of computers and electronics devices and tremendous growth in computing power ...

This paper proposes a method to reduce the amount of the memory references generated by the front-end of our distributed execution-driven simulator for shared memory multiprocessors named Shaman. The simulator consists of the front-end to execute programs in parallel and the backend, driven by the memory references from the front-end, to simulate the behavior of the memory system of a target mu...