This paper presents a 3D face reconstruction method using multiple 2D face images. Structure from motion (SfM) methods, which have been widely used to reconstruct 3D faces, are vulnerable to point correspondence errors caused by self-occlusion. In order to solve this problem, we propose a shape conversion matrix (SCM) which estimates the ground-truth 2D facial feature points (FFPs) from the obs...

To improve the performance of Supply chain decisions (SCM) , agents technology is slowly becoming the best alternative . In general , most of the components in SCM work in isolation and achieving coordination among SCM partners turns out to be a difficult proposition . But in a multi-agent system (MAS) , an agent while making a local optimal decision , it sees how it will effect the other agent...

Response: In fact the introduction hypothesizes but does not “assume” that SCM have a large role in new water-column primary production. This hypothesis was formulated on the basis of recent observations published in Martin et al. 2010. These authors characterized Arctic SCM and compared them with those of warmer oceans. The comparison revealed striking differences between these oceans and the ...

Recently, most healthcare organizations focus their attention on reducing the cost of their supply chain management (SCM) by improving the decision making pertaining processes' efficiencies. The availability of products through healthcare SCM is often a matter of life or death to the patient; therefore, trial and error approaches are not an option in this environment. Simulation and modeling (S...

Movement-related effects in realigned fMRI timeseries can be corrected by regression on linear functions of estimated positional displacements of an individual subject's head during image acquisition. However, this entails biased (under)estimation of the experimental effect whenever subject motion is not independent of the experimental input function. Methods for diagnosing such stimulus-correl...

BACKGROUND Coagulase negative staphylococci (CNS) are the most common pathogens leading to subclinical mastitis (SCM) in dairy cattle in Uganda. Coagulase negative staphylococci can vary between bacterial species in how they cause disease. The aim of the study was to characterize CNS, from cows with SCM in Uganda, at the species level. FINDINGS Quarter milk samples (n = 166) were collected fr...

To achieve success at supply chain management (SCM), an organization must possess--and share-knowledge about the different facets of the supply chain. Lack of information sharing between members of the supply chain has been shown to significantly affect total profitability. As such, we argue that Knowledge Management (KM) can enhance the degree of success of existing SCM efforts as well as incr...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a very challenging problem that is leveraging the e-commerce explosion. Today’s supply chains are essentially static, because they rely on long-term relationships among key trading partners. Dynamic practices are vital because they offer better matches between suppliers and customers as market conditions change. This paper presents a flexible architecture for de...

Storage Class Memory (SCM) is a novel class of memory technologies that promise to revolutionize database architectures. SCM is byte-addressable and exhibits latencies similar to those of DRAM, while being non-volatile. Hence, SCM could replace both main memory and storage, enabling a novel single-level database architecture without the traditional I/O bottleneck. Fail-safe persistent SCM alloc...

In today’s competitive market, it is essential for companies to evaluate and benchmark their supply chain management (SCM) system. This task is difficult due to the lack of a universal index that includes the relevant criteria for any business nature such as manufacturing or service. This paper identified six major criteria and their respected sub-criteria of the SCM cycle based on literature s...