Automatic facial Action Unit (AU) detection from video is a long-standing problem in facial expression analysis. AU detection is typically posed as a classification problem between frames or segments of positive examples and negative ones, where existing work emphasizes the use of different features or classifiers. In this paper, we propose a method called Cascade of Tasks (CoT) that combines t...

The SemiAnalytical CloUd Retrieval Algorithm (SACURA) is applied to the SCanning Imaging Absorption spectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) data. In particular, we derive simultaneously cloud optical thickness (COT) and cloud top height (CTH), using SCIAMACHY measurements in the visible (442 nm, COT) and in the oxygen A-band (755–775 nm, CTH). Some of the results obtained are comp...

BACKGROUND In the United States, there is a perceived divide regarding the benefits and risks of firearm ownership. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Injury Prevention and Control Committee designed a survey to evaluate Committee on Trauma (COT) member attitudes about firearm ownership, freedom, responsibility, physician-patient freedom and policy, with the objective of using...

Specific concerns have been raised that third-generation cephalosporin-resistant (3GC(r)) Escherichia coli, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole-resistant (COT(r)) E. coli, 3GC(r) Salmonella enterica, and nalidixic acid-resistant (NAL(r)) S. enterica may be present in cattle production environments, persist through beef processing, and contaminate final products. The prevalences and concentrations of ...

On 26 October 1971 Dr David Haler, a pathologist, is reported as having said in evidence on a case of cot death in a carry cot "There is no ventilation in a carry cot, so carbon dioxide which is heavier than air sinks to the base of the cot where the child is sleeping" (Oldham Evening Chronicle, 27 October 1971). To clear up a possible misconception implicit in this opinion, it must be pointed ...

Hey, E. N., and O'Connell, B. (1970). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 335. Oxygen consumption and heat balance in the cot-nursed baby. Oxygen consumption and heat balance have been studied in 42 clothed babies under varied environmental temperature conditions. The information obtained has made it possible to compare the thermal environment provided by an incubator with that provided by an...

1. The COT has been asked to consider aspects related to the toxicity of chemicals in the infant diet, in support of a review by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) of Government recommendations on complementary and young child feeding. An initial paper (TOX/2012/03), highlighting some of the areas requiring consideration was discussed by the COT in February, 2012. Members agr...

The eigenvalues of the 3 off-diagonal matrices of rank n with elements 1 + i cot [(j − k)π/n], sin[(j − k)π/n] and sin[(j − k)π/n], (j = 1, 2, . . . , n, k = 1, 2, . . . , n, j 6= k) are computed. The sums over k from 1 to n− 1 of cot (kπ/n) sin (2skπ/n) and sin(kπ/n)cos(2skπ/n) are moreover computed for s integer and p=2 and 4. The results are given by simple formulae in terms of integers. In ...

The major challenge now facing the medical imaging community does not involve the process of imaging per se but rather the management of images once they have been acquired. Our goal with this special issue is to highlight ongoing developments in medical image management and perhaps stimulate specialists in local area networking and image database management to focus their attention on some of ...