Application of automated video analysis for behavioural studies: concept and experience

Lund University, Sweden, is developing a video analysis system for making long-term behavioural studies, primarily in complex urban environments. Road users are detected using the KLT (Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi) interest point tracker. Trajectories are estimated using foreground–background segmentation, whereas speed is estimated using the shape analysis of interest points. The extracted trajectories ar

Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Alzheimer's Disease.

Coordination incentives, performance measurement, and resource allocation in public sector organizations

Why are coordination problems common when public sector organizations share responsibilities, and what can be done to mitigate such problems? This paper uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two related reasons: the incentives to coordinate resource allocation and the difficulties of measuring performance. The analysis shows that when targets are set individually for each organization

Streptokinase activates plasminogen bound to human group C and G streptococci through M-like proteins.

An ability to interact with plasminogen or plasmin could provide micro-organisms with a mechanism for invasion. Thus, group A, C and G streptococci secrete streptokinase which binds and activates plasminogen. Some streptococci also express surface structures which bind plasminogen without causing its activation. Plasminogen-binding surface proteins were extracted from one group C and one group G s

Aging in place and healthy aging in very old age: Results from the ENABLE-AGE Project.

Post-release analysis of requirements selection quality - an industrial case study

The process of selecting requirements for a release of a software product is challenging as the decision-making is based on uncertain predictions of issues such as market value and development cost. This paper presents a method aimed at supporting software product development organisations in the identification of process improvement proposals to increase requirements selection quality. The method

T-shape slot induced decoupling for closely spaced dual PIFAs in MIMO terminals

In this paper, an efficient technique to enhance the isolation between two closely spaced PIFAs for MIMO mobile terminals is introduced. The proposed decoupling method is based on a T-shape slot impedance transformer and it enables an inter-PIFA spacing of 1 mm to be achieved. The 10 dB impedance bandwidth and 20 dB isolation bandwidth cover the 2.4 GHz WLAN band (2.4-2.48 GHz), with a maximum iso

From Autonomy to External Control? The case of the Swedish physiciens

Kvinnors ålderspensionering II. Socialpsykologisk undersökning

Green roofs : a new tool for urban storm water management

Predicting gaze behavior in children with hearing impairment from cognitive and linguistic ability

On sequential decoding for the Gilbert-Elliott channel

Föreläsning om Bengt Pohjanens roman Ropandes röst vid seminariet Andlighet i litteraturen, Pomor State University, Archangelsk den 15 mars 2003 och vid seminarium för studenter vid samma universitet den 17 mars 2003

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Strategies for Integrating Gender Perspectives into Science and Technology Education: Reflections upon the course “Gender relations in the natural and physical sciences and engineering”

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Academics' strategies and obstacles in achieving collaboration between universities and SMEs

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering of rhodamine 6G on gold nanoparticles deposited 3-dimensionally on nanowire arrays

Events and Spaces of Conflict

Experimental studies of higher order effects in beta decay

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Scattering from impurity: Lax-Phillips approach