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Open AccessSerial lung ultrasounds in pediatric pneumonia in Mozambique and Pakistan
Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a promising point-of-care imaging technology for diagnosing and managing pneumonia. We sought to explore serial LUS examinations in children with chest-indrawing pneumonia in resource-...
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Open AccessMalawian children with fast-breathing pneumonia with and without comorbidities
Due to high risk of mortality, children with comorbidities are typically excluded from trials evaluating pneumonia treatment. Understanding heterogeneity of outcomes among children with pneumonia and comorbidi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance Evaluation of the Route Optimization Scheme in Mobile IPv6
The paper presents the performance comparison between the triangle routing and the route optimization. The paper presents not only the analytical models to compare the performance but also the threshold value ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Study on the Transportation Period of the EPG Data Specification in Terrestrial DMB
With the convergence of information communication and broadcasting technology, DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) becomes the hottest issue of the next generation in the new media industry and the communica...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Face Detection with Adaptive Template Matching and Cascaded Object Detection for Ubiquitous Computing Environment
This paper presents the template matching and efficient cascaded object detection. The proposed template matching method is superior to previous face detection. Furthermore, the proposed cascade method has som...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On a Video Surveillance System with a DSP by the LDA Algorithm
As face recognition algorithms move from research labs to real world product, power consumption and cost become critical issues, and DSP-based implementations become more attractive. Also, “real-time” automati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Energy-Aware Broadcasting Method for Wireless Sensor Network
The communicative behaviors in Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) can be characterized by two different types: routing and broadcasting. The broadcasting is used for effective route discoveries and packet delivery...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Iris-Region Normalization for a Video Surveillance System
An efficient approach for iris recognition is presented in this paper. An efficient iris region normalization consists of a doubly polar coordinate and noise region exclude. And then a Haar wavelet transform i...
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Energy-Efficiency Method for Cluster-Based Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks have recently emerged as an important computing platform. The sensors in this system are power-limited and have limited computing resources. Therefore sensors’ energy has to be managed...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Face Detection by Facial Features with Color Images and Face Recognition Using PCA
Human face detection plays an important role in applications such as video surveillance, human computer interface, face recognition, and face image database management. The face recognition by a CCD camera has...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Facial Expression Recognition Using the Virtual Image Masking for a Security System
Since PC camera based net-meeting and video chatting program have been introduced, users become to enjoy real-time communication with each other through PC as having face to face meeting. This paper proposes v...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Efficient Key Agreement Protocol for Secure Authentication
The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange scheme can produce a common session key between the communication parties but its problem is that it makes a man-in-the middle attack possible. To solve the problem, several pro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Efficient Management of Domain Foreign Agents in Mobile Computing Environment Using Load Balance
Mobile IP is a protocol standard designed to be used in a mobile computing environment. However, Mobile IP has a drawback to incur a lot of handoff delays and waste network resources, since CoA registration pa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
CORBA Based Real-Time Object-Group Platform in Distributed Computing Environments
Recently, the distributed real-time services are develo** in distributed object computing environments in a way that can support a new programming paradigm of the distributed platform that requires interoper...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Inductive Inverse Kinematics Algorithm to Manipulate the Posture of an Articulated Body
Inverse kinematics is a very useful method for controlling the posture of an articulated body. In most inverse kinematics processes, the major matter of concern is not the posture of an articulated body itself...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On Natural Motion Editing by a Geometric Mean Filter
Recently, motion capture has become one of the most promising technologies in animation. Realistic motion data can be captured by recording the movement of a real actor with an optical or magnetic motion captu...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Uniform Posture Map Algorithm for the Real-Time Interactive Motion Transitions of an Articulated Body
It is important to reuse existing motion capture data for reduction of the animation producing costs as well as for the efficiency of the producing process. Because its motion curve has no control point, howev...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the Extraction of the Valid Speech-Sound by the Merging Algorithm with the Discrete Wavelet Transform
A valid speech-sound block can be classified to provide important information for speech recognition. The classification of the speech-sound block comes from the MRA(multi-resolution analysis) property of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of a Residential Gateway and a Service Server for Home Automation
We have developed a residential gateway that centralizes device interfacing between the external Internet and internal devices as well as appliance networks. We have also proposed the concept of a service serv...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Load Balancing Algorithm Using the Circulation of A Single Message Token
We present an efficient load balancing algorithm which simplifies the system status information through the use of an information message (VISITOR) in distributed system. Using the proposed algorithm, informat...
