This paper presents an image segmentation algorithm based on Gaussian multiscale aggregation oriented to hand biometric applications.The method is able to isolate the hand from a wide variety Pendant of background textures such as carpets, fabric, glass, grass, soil or stones.The evaluation was carried out by using a publicly available synthetic da
Palliative cancer care patients may live for a long time, but malnutrition worsens the prognosis.Parenteral nutrition (PN) is suitable for replenishing a calorie deficit, but its advantages and tolerance late in the cancer trajectory are debated.We examined symptom development in hospitalized patients with and without PN.A total of 21 palliative Ca
This study BALM examines the prevalence of big bath accounting in an emerging market context, focusing on newly appointed CEOs of Brazilian firms.We find evidence of big bath accounting in Brazil and extends the big bath and CEO turnover literature by documenting a limit to downward earnings manipulation and by using Brazil as a source of study.Our
Abstract The formation of meta-stable dark matter bound states in coannihilating scenarios could efficiently occur through the scattering with a variety of Standard Model bath particles, where light bosons during the electroweak cross over or even massless photons and gluons are exchanged in the t-channel.The amplitudes for those higher-order proce
: In this paper, the operation of a future distribution network is discussed under the assumption of a multi-copyright microgrid (MCMG) concept.The new model considers a modern energy management technique in electricity and natural gas networks based on a novel demand side management (DSM) which the energy tariff for responsive loads are correlated