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... checks and self-reading Plentiful studies have proposed specific approaches for character extraction (Kurniawan and Mohamad, 2009; Khan and Mohammad, 2008) and character recognition (Rakshit and ... physical and mathematical average of electrodes attached to both earlobes/mastoids • Average reference montage The average voltage over all the electrodes serves as the common reference, and each ... from µ V to 20 µ V for both auditory and visual tasks (Patel and Azzam, 2005) Its latency ranges from 300 ms to 600 ms after the presence of targets, depending on the specific tasks and individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:57

... agreements, contractors, undertaking and the guarantees Buyer looks to the security package agreement in order to provide security for money the investment and target’s company assets There preparation ... the net advantage of debt capital is taken into account by using the after-tax cost of debt capital Gearing ratio measures the percentage of capital employed that is financed by debt and long-term ... perceived risk and cost of capital I-Analysis of the reasons behind takeovers and the methods by which such takeovers may have take place together with the potential effects of a takeover ‘Takeover’...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 13:02

... patients' TAF and led to the subsequent development of OCD Later work developed the concept of TAF further and divided it into two components: moral TAF and likelihood TAF (Rachman, Thordarson, Shafran, ... been used and have provided some predictive validity for the concept of TAF A laboratory measure to operationalize TAF was developed by Rachman and colleagues (Rachman, Shafran, Mitchell, Trant, ... the student sample, three factors emerged — TAF-Moral, TAF-LikelihoodOthers, and TAF-Likelihood-Self In the obsessional group, two clear factors emerged, TAF-Moral and TAF-Likelihood There was a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:52

... frontal face image occur in a natural order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated ... Each state in the overall top -to- bottom HMM is assigned to a left -to- right 1D HMM In this case transitions are allowed only from left -to- right or self-transitions and only between consecutive states ... important characteristic of these: frontal faces preserve the structure of “superstates” from top to bottom, and also the left -to- right structure of ’embedded states’ within each “superstate”...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 05:20

... asymptotic Properties and above indicate that the Laplace Transform converts differentiation and integration to algebraic operations Properties 1, 2, and are used to find Laplace Transforms and ... camera that supports USB connection and Windows standard multi-media interface Using the Windows standard video I/O functionalities, our segmentation software is highly portable and easy to maintain ... (1) their ability to transform a segmentation modeling problem into a partial differential equation framework and their ability to embed and integrate different regularizers into these models;...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... frontal face image occur in a natural order, from top to bottom, and this sequence is 10 New Approaches to Characterization and Recognition of Faces immutable, even if the face is moderately rotated ... Each state in the overall top -to- bottom HMM is assigned to a left -to- right 1D HMM In this case transitions are allowed only from left -to- right or self-transitions and only between consecutive states ... important characteristic of these: frontal faces preserve the structure of “superstates” from top to bottom, and also the left -to- right structure of ’embedded states’ within each “superstate”...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 14:20

... heritages.29 Racism (or institutional racism) describes the belief that some races are superior to others This ideology is used to justify individual and collective actions that impose and maintain ... hospitalization cases (in and out of buffers), 108 fig; environmental hazards and pollutants in, 105–106; five-year average asthma hospitalization rates (1995–1999) in, 99, 104 fig; major stationary ... Urbanists approach to, 25 Index Community-based participatory research (CBPR): advantages and rationale for using, 95–96; definition and principles of, 95; on Detroit retail food environment and health,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Urban health and society: interdisciplinary approaches to research and practice/ Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, Susan Saegert, editors ... Action Research Transdisciplinary Action Research Cycle Translating Transdisciplinary Research into Community Intervention and Policy Factors Facilitating or Impeding Collaboration Among TPC ... not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages Jossey-Bass books and products are available through most bookstores To contact Jossey-Bass directly call our Customer Care...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... disciplines We wrote and edited Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice to prepare researchers and practitioners to be better equipped to meet the challenges ... approaches to urban health for masters and doctoral students in public health and the social sciences, and collaborated on research projects aimed at understanding how housing policies and practices ... Director of Geographic Information Science Program Doctoral Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences, City University of New York Graduate Center New York, N.Y The Contributors Maroko, Andrew...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... including Angotti and Sze in Chapter Two, who integrate urban planning with historical and environmental health approaches to the study of urban environmental hazards and Maantay and her colleagues, ... investigators work together, and such efforts have led to a better understanding of asthma Too often, however, multidisciplinary research resembles more the parallel play of toddlers than the collaborative ... our efforts to understand and reduce the health problems facing Introduction urban neighborhoods forced us to transcend the disciplinary boundaries of our professional training and to learn new...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... includes all these players, but knowing who to invite to the table, when to make the invitation, what to serve to bring and keep guests at the table, and how to prevent food fights at the banquet are ... that have disparate effects due to economic and racial inequalities, including high rates of asthma, obesity, and cancer The stories suggest that public health practitioners need to take note of ... highlight is the value of interdisciplinary approaches to integrating and reconciling research and practice that aims to improve population health and that seeks to promote social justice Modern public...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... large grant for a study, “Integrating Indicators of Cumulative Impact and Socioeconomic Vulnerability into Regulatory Decision-making.”34 In addition to peer validation and respect from state agencies ... solutions are resistant to conventional discipline-based approaches This is clearly one reason that many public health and urban planning practitioners have been naturally drawn to such approaches Through ... need to be brought together again to resolve today’s new and complex urban issues Environmental justice praxis can help foster this trend It is not simply a matter of 26 Environmental Justice Praxis...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... industry in Oakland) as well as pragmatic tools (GIS mapping and how to research particular industries and corporations) According to Chang, “graduate, academic, and professional training helped ... organizing APEN is taking steps to improve public participation and engagement with urban development and community health in historically and culturally disenfranchised immigrant and refugee populations ... noncompliance Lastly, $1.65 million will be dedicated to training programs to support immigrants and those formerly incarcerated to get a start in the building trades What is perhaps as significant as the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... into the suburbs now to get some decent food And therefore, it’s not available to us in this community By the time you get to that store and get some fresh fruits and vegetables, you’re going to ... grocery chains took advantage of abundant and inexpensive land in the suburbs, which allowed them to build large store formats at a lower cost Scarcity of land to accommodate large store formats ... contributing to grocery store closures and rare store openings within cities are multifaceted.20–25 However, many of the factors that have shaped the contemporary retail food environment in Detroit and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... some common language and experiences that facilitated communication Using CBPR to Understand the Health Implications 53 Incorporating Diverse Cultural Food Preferences Racial and ethnic diversity ... under study Understanding the Relationship Between Race and Economics Racial residential segregation, a defining characteristic of metropolitan Detroit and other U.S metropolitan areas, adversely ... interdisciplinary, participatory research collaborations; securing funding; and collecting and analyzing data presented two challenges A first challenge was balancing research to understand contributions...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... causes that are largely preventable,1–3 including preventable and/ or treatable diseases such as diarrheal dehydration, acute respiratory infection, measles, malaria, and HIV.1, In fact, three of ... that, with increasing rates of rural-urban migration and the resulting growth of the urban poor, this urban advantage is decreasing and may not exist when socioeconomic status is controlled for.5–7 ... parents and parental divorce or separation) have elevated cardiovascular activity.44, 45 Further, the regularity of events and levels of unpredictability and confusion in the home are related to children’s...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... ecological-contextual framework that also takes developmental time into account, as described earlier and elsewhere.138, 139 This will provide researchers with a clear understanding of all the interacting factors ... which different factors interact at multiple levels in determining overall mental and physical health outcomes To assist in this daunting task, we have suggested a conceptual framework based on ... this framework to assess the influences of multiple environmental factors operating at multiple levels over time as they influence critical two-way interactions between children and the objects and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... gestational age infants in Cape Town Developmental Brain Dysfunction, (1995): 119–126 22 Repetti, R L., Taylor, S E., and Seeman, T E Risky families: Family social environments and the mental and ... D., and Corapci, F Environmental chaos, development and parenting across cultures In C Raeff and J Benson, eds., Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural ... child and adolescent outcomes Psychological Bulletin, 126 (2000): 309–337 51 Wandersman, A., and Nation, M Urban neighborhoods and mental health: Psychological contributions to understanding toxicity,...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... United States,2, and there have been efforts by communities and governmental agencies to define and advance environmental justice (EJ) The objectives of environmental justice include overcoming and ... spatial data are by their very nature not randomly distributed, as traditional statistical approaches require.35 Spatial autocorrelation, which is a given in geography, becomes an impediment to the ... Community-Based Participatory Research 95 COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH Since the 1990s, there has been growing and convergent interest in minority health disparities and community-based participatory...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20

... firms, waste transfer stations, and factories, also emit contaminants to the air, but these emissions for the most part remain undocumented and, thus, are difficult to incorporate into the analysis ... Environmental Justice, and Health Disparities analysis for demographic and socioeconomic data is the census block group, the smallest census enumeration unit for which demographic and socioeconomic data ... possible using data aggregated by enumeration unit (i.e., census tract) and is only feasible because individual patient record-level data were used To develop and compare rates inside and outside...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 07:20