Dermatological.Atlas.of.Indigenous.People.[taliem.ir]

Dermatological Atlas of Indigenous People

Thinking of the body, you can mistakenly face it as purely biological, a universal patrimony whereupon the culture would write different histories. After all, men of different nationalities show physical similarities. However, in addition to physical similarities or differences, a set of meanings that each society writes on their members’ body through time, these meanings define the body in various ways. Daolio, 1995 The original idea of this book arose from the observation of the high prevalence of skin diseases in the daily routine of health professionals who work for the Primary Health Care in Amazon’s indigenous areas and the absence of adequate support material for these professionals. As a result of an action-research called “Dermatologic Investigation and Evaluation of Jorge Lobo’s Disease Evolution in Caiabi Indigenous People, Central Brazil,” financed by the São Paulo Research Foundation – Fapesp (process 2006/03908-0), which had as its objectives, besides reviewing the Jorge Lobo’s disease cases, the performance of an investigation into the prevalence of dermatosis in the villages of the middle, lower, and upper regions of the Xingu Indigenous Park and the local health staff’s capacity to manage mainly skin diseases found in their daily local services. The production of this atlas was made by the cooperation of the Xingu Project, the Department of Preventive Medicine, and the Department of Dermatology of Escola Paulista de Medicina/Unifesp (EPM/UNIFESP).
Dermatoanthropology.of.Ethnic.Skin.[taliem.ir]

Dermatoanthropology of Ethnic Skin and Hair

Skin color is a conspicuous trait of biological and social importance. The associations of skin color with concepts of human races and social privilege in recent human history have added to the significance, as well as to the misunderstanding of the trait, in general society and in medicine. In this chapter, I present a short review of what we know about human skin color in its evolutionary and social contexts. Examination of the evolution of the diversity of skin color is an essential foundation because it informs our understanding of biological and social concepts of race, and of the validity of the concept of skin of color.
Age-Synthesis-and-Estimation-via-Faces.[taliem.ir]

Age Synthesis and Estimation via Faces: A Survey

Human age, as an important personal trait, can be directly inferred by distinct patterns emerging from the facial appearance. Derived from rapid advances in computer graphics and machine vision, computer-based age synthesis and estimation via faces have become particularly prevalent topics recently because of their explosively emerging real-world applications, such as forensic art, electronic customer relationship management, security control and surveillance monitoring, biometrics, entertainment, and cosmetology. Age synthesis is defined to rerender a face image aesthetically with natural aging and rejuvenating effects on the individual face. Age estimation is defined to label a face image automatically with the exact age (year) or the age group (year range) of the individual face. Because of their particularity and complexity, both problems are attractive yet challenging to computer-based application system designers. Large efforts from both academia and industry have been devoted in the last a few decades. In this paper, we survey the complete state-of-the-art techniques in the face image-based age synthesis and estimation topics. Existing models, popular algorithms, system performances, technical difficulties, popular face aging databases, evaluation protocols, and promising future directions are also provided with systematic discussions.
Mobile commerce product recommendations.[taliem.ir]

Mobile commerce product recommendations based on hybrid multiple channels

The number of third generation (3G) subscribers conducting mobile commerce has increased as mobile data communications have evolved. Multi-channel companies that wish to develop mobile commerce face difficulties due to the lack of knowledge about users’ consumption behavior on new mobile channels. Typical collaborative filtering (CF) recommendations may be affected by the so-called sparsity problem because relatively few products are browsed or purchased on the mobile Web. In this study, we propose a hybrid multiple channel method to address the lack of knowledge about users’ consumption behavior on a new channel and the difficulty of finding similar users due to the sparsity problem of typical CF recommender systems. Products are recommended to users based on their browsing behavior on the new mobile channel as well as the consumption behavior of heavy users of existing channels, such as television, catalogs, and the Web. Our experiment results show that the proposed method performs well compared to the other recommendation methods.
Modeling-and-Evaluation-of-Multisource.[taliem.ir]

Modeling and Evaluation of Multisource Streaming Strategies in P2P VoD Systems

In recent years, multimedia content distribution has largely been moved to the Internet, inducing broadcasters, operators and service providers to upgrade with large expenses their infrastructures. In this context, streaming solutions that rely on user devices such as set-top boxes (STBs) to offload dedicated streaming servers are particularly appropriate. In these systems, contents are usually replicated and scattered over the network established by STBs placed at users’ home, and the video-on-demand (VoD) service is provisioned through streaming sessions established among neighboring STBs following a Peer-to- Peer fashion. Up to now the majority of research works have focused on the design and optimization of content replicas mechanisms to minimize server costs. The optimization of replicas mechanisms has been typically performed either considering very crude system performance indicators or analyzing asymptotic behavior. In this work, instead, we propose an analytical model that complements previous works providing fairly accurate predictions of system performance (i.e., blocking probability). Our model turns out to be a highly scalable, flexible, and extensible tool that may be helpful both for designers and developers to efficiently predict the effect of system design choices in large scale STB-VoD systems1.
Modelling-Hardware-Verification-Concerns.[taliem.ir]

Modelling Hardware Verification Concerns Specified in the e Language: An Experience Report

is an aspect-oriented hardware verification language that is widely used to verify the design of electronic circuits through the development and execution of testbenches. In recent years, the continued growth of the testbenches developed at Infineon Technologies has resulted in their becoming difficult to understand, maintain and extend. Consequently, a decision was taken to document the testbenches at a higher level of abstraction. Accordingly, we attempted to model our legacy test suites with an existing aspect-oriented modelling approach. In this paper we describe our experience of applying Theme/UML, an aspectoriented modelling approach, to the representation of aspectoriented testbenches implemented in e. It emerged that the common aspect-oriented concepts supported by Theme/UML were not sufficient to adequately represent the e language, primarily due to e’s dynamic, temporal nature. Based on this experience we propose a number of requirements that must be addressed before aspect-oriented modelling approaches such as Theme/UML are capable of representing aspect-oriented systems implemented in.
Integration-of-the-extracted-data-to-produce.[taliem.ir]

Integration of the extracted data to produce a consistent and coherent database

we studied data extraction from Web pages. The extracted data is put in tables. For an application, it is, however, often not sufficient to extract data from only a single site. Instead, data from a large number of sites are gathered in order to provide value-added services. In such cases, extraction is only part of the story. The other part is the integration of the extracted data to produce a consistent and coherent database because different sites typically use different data formats. Intuitively, integration means to match columns in different data tables that contain the same type of information (e.g., product names) and to match values that are semantically identical but represented differently in different Web sites (e.g., “ Coke” and “Coca Cola”). Unfortunately, limited integration research has been done so far in this specific context. Much of the Web information integration research has been focused on the integration of Web query interfaces. This chapter will have several sections on their integration. However ,many ideas developed are also applicable to the integration of the extracted data because the problems are similar.
Determinants-of-choice-of-semantic-web.[taliem.ir]

Determinants of choice of semantic web based Software as a Service: An integrative framework in the context of e-procurement and ERP

The ever increasing Internet bandwidth and the fast changing needs of businesses for effectiveness with the partners in the procurement chain and is leading organizations to adopt information systems infrastructures that are cost effective as well as flexible. The question seems to be: what is driving organizations to go in for Software as a Service (SaaS) based e-procurement and ERP, rather than the packaged model of software provisioning? Whereas there have been studies reporting technology, cost, quality, network externalities and process as the main variables in the utility function of the user, but most of the studies have modelled either one or two in the their models. The study is exploratory in nature and tries to identify, classify and rank dimensions affecting SaaS sourcing decisions. In this study, we developed an integrative framework to identify the determinants of choice of SaaS in the specific context of SaaS based e-procurement and ERP. The framework was then analyzed using the extended Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method suggested by Liberatore (1987) and the relative importance and the weights of the criteria identified using data collected on 8 users and 9 service providers of SaaS based e-procurement and ERP. Although the analysis helped in identifying quality and costs as the two most important determinants of choice of SaaS based eprocurement and ERP, but the other criteria such as network externality benefits, technology and process were also found to be significant determinants of choice.