Single-suture craniosynostosis is a condition of the sutures of the infant's skull that causes major craniofacial deformities and is associated with an increased risk of cognitive deficits and learning/language di...
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Single-suture craniosynostosis is a condition of the sutures of the infant's skull that causes major craniofacial deformities and is associated with an increased risk of cognitive deficits and learning/language disabilities. In this paper we adapt to classification of synostostic head shapes a Bayesian methodology that overcomes the limitations of our previously published shape representation and classification techniques. We evaluate our approach in a series of large-scale experiments and show performance superior to those of standard approaches such as Fourier descriptors, cranial spectrum, and Euclidian-distance-based analyses.
The ever changing engineering curriculum mandates an emphasis on interdisciplinary projects. Through interdisciplinary projects, students will be exposed to a curriculum that allows them to work in teams of multi-disc...
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WS-Policy4MASC is an XML language for specification of policies for run-time Web service management (monitoring and control) activities executed by the Manageable and Adaptable Services Compositions (MASC) middleware....
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WS-Policy4MASC is an XML language for specification of policies for run-time Web service management (monitoring and control) activities executed by the Manageable and Adaptable Services Compositions (MASC) middleware. Among its original contributions are specfication of diverse business values (benefits or costs, tangible or intangible, agreed or possible, absolute or relative) and specification of various control strategies maximizing different business values (e.g., only agreed intangible benefits). To facilitate development of Web service systems that can be managed with WS-Policy4MASC and the MASC middleware and to improve alignment between run-time management activities and design-time models, we developed novel UML profiles for WS-Policy4MASC. Their original contributions are in improved support for: a) specification of run-time management activities and business values within design-time models, b) automatic creation of run-time management policies from design-time models, c) feedback of run-time management information values into analysis of design-time models. We validated our solutions on detailed examples.
Financial derivatives are contracts concerning rights and obligations to engage in future transactions on some underlying financial instrument. A major con-cern in financial markets is to compute an expected value of ...
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Sixty-two years after the first photos of earth taken by a camera aboard a V-2 rocket in October, 1946, and forty-eight years since the first CORONA satellite images were captured, the status of remote sensing researc...
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Sixty-two years after the first photos of earth taken by a camera aboard a V-2 rocket in October, 1946, and forty-eight years since the first CORONA satellite images were captured, the status of remote sensing research and applications within the African continent has made dramatic progress. Many African countries now have remote sensing research centers, within government agencies, research institutes and universities. Some countries in Africa currently have earth observing and/or telecommunications satellites in orbit and/or have such assets in various planning stages. The authors document such progress, in addition to the constraints to further applications of remote sensing for sustainable development in Africa, with special reference to data distribution constraints. Moreover, the authors address the urgency for bandwidth improvements within the African continent, so as to enable sustainable development initiatives to benefit from advances in high performance computing, required for ab initio near-real-time analysis of satellite-data. Such capabilities, it is argued, are propaedeutic for time-critical initiatives, such as vulnerability assessment, disaster preparedness and mitigation, emergency response, humanitarian assistance and post-calamity reconstruction, associated with a wide array of biogenic and anthropogenic disasters. Case studies of advances in infrastructure for satellite remote sensing and high performance computing, with implications for sustainable development in Africa, are provided from Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa.
In the United States, more than 10% of traditional electrical engineeringprograms have combined with computerscience into a single department \Historically computerscienceprograms emerged from mathematics or elect...
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engineering educators are constantly modifying course offerings and course structure to meet the necessities of our society. One of the ongoing challenges is how to modify the initial contact with students that will e...
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