A survey on opium use was earned out in Tinsukia district of upper Assam to assess the present prevalence and pattern of opium abuse and compared with earlier findings of the year 1981 (Baruah et al., 1995). A total of 75 addicts could be detected during the survey and 61 were interviewed using structured questionnaire. The results indicate significant decline in prevalence in opium use over th...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate short-term effects of publishing revised lower risk national drinking guidelines on related awareness and knowledge. To examine where drinkers heard about guidelines over the same period. DESIGN Trend analysis of the Alcohol Toolkit Study, a monthly repeat cross-sectional national survey. SETTING England, November 2015 to May 2016. PARTICIPANTS A total of 11 845 adu...

As the number of resources on the web exceeds by far the number of documents one can track, it becomes increasingly difficult to remain up to date on ones own areas of interest. The problem becomes more severe with the increasing fraction of multimedia data, from which it is difficult to extract some conceptual description of their contents. One way to overcome this problem are social bookmark ...

As social media continues to grow, the zeitgeist of society is increasingly found not in the headlines of traditional media institutions, but in the activity of ordinary individuals. The identification of trending topics utilizes social media (such as Twitter) to provide an overview of the topics and issues that are currently popular within the online community. In this paper, we outline method...

In this paper we report on a project for Corporate Technology of Siemens AG, Munich, which aimed at the use of a social network analysis approach for trend and trend shift detection over time in a technically oriented newsgroup on mobile phones. The analysis was based on the assumption that a trend shift is relevant only if relevant (central) members of the newsgroup initiated this shift. A shi...

Edge detection and edge enhancement techniques play an essential role in interpreting potential field data. This paper describes the application of various edge detection techniques to gravity data in order to delineate the edges of subsurface structures. The edge detection methods comprise analytic signal, total horizontal derivative (THDR), theta angle, tilt angle, hyperbolic of tilt angle (H...

It is known that densely populated coastal areas may be adversely affected as a result of the climate change effects. In this respect, for protection, utilization, and management it critical to understand changes in wind speed (WS) significant wave height (SWH) areas. Innovative approaches, which are one trend analysis methods used an effective way examine these changes, have started very frequ...

An automated medical trend detection program, TrenDx, was developed in earlier work by Haimowitz [1] and Le [2]. It was evaluated on its ability to discern growth abnormalities by matching templates of expected growth patterns. The results of these evaluations were somewhat disappointing because the program was inefficient and could not reach the level of sensitivity and specificity of human ph...