Study of image sensors for enhanced face recognition at a distance in the Smart City context.

Smart monitoring and surveillance systems have become one of the fundamental areas in the context of security applications in Smart Cities. In particular, video surveillance for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) applied to the recognition of potential offenders and to the detection and prevention of violent acts is a challenging task that is still undergoing. This paper presents a method based on deep learning for face recognition at a distance for security applications.

A Model to Calculate the Current-Temperature Relationship of Insulated and Jacketed Cables.

This paper proposes and validates using experimental data a dynamic model to determine the current-temperature relationship of insulated and jacketed cables in air. The model includes the conductor core, the inner insulation layer, the outer insulating and protective jacket and the air surrounding the cable. To increase its accuracy, the model takes into account the different materials of the cable (conductor, polymeric insulation and jacket) and also considers the temperature dependence of the physical properties, such as electrical resistivity, heat capacity and thermal conductivity.

Study of some Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for winemaking after preadaptation at low temperatures.

Low-temperature fermentations (13 degrees C) are considered to improve wine aromatic profiles. However, because the risk of stuck and sluggish fermentations is high, these fermentations are not common. The aim of this paper was to analyze the effect of different preadaptation protocols in two commercial wine strains on the fermentation and some wine parameters.

Efficacy of PdB in preventing intraoperative risk of infectious diseases.

The objectives of this study were to (1) determine the number of punctures surgeons and assistants suffer during operations involving a laparotomy during the intraabdominal and closure phases; and (2) determine if the number of puncture injuries during wound closure can be reduced using a new surgical instrument (PdB) that protects the surgeon's hands and the patient's viscera against needlesticks. For the first objective, all laparotomies performed during 1 month (n = 52) were controlled, collecting the gloves used and determining the number of perforations. For the second objective, a randomized prospective controlled study, involving two series of 100 medial laparotomies, was carried out.

[The use of anorectal manometry and dynamic proctography in patients for diagnosis of solitary rectal ulcer syndrome].

Background: Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome is caused by rectal prolapse and/or anismus. The diagnosis by physical examination, or using endoscopy or radiology alone is difficult.

Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic utility of videoproctography and anorectal manometry in solitary rectal ulcer syndrome.

Clinical and radiologic lacrimal testing in patients with epiphora.

Objective: The purpose of the study is to assess the strengths and weaknesses of selected clinical and radiologic lacrimal tests in patients with epiphora.

Design: The study design was a prospective clinical trial.

Participants: Fifteen patients with epiphora (N = 27 eyes) were studied.

Radioisotopic pulmonary lobectomy: feasibility study in dogs.

In search for an alternate treatment for inoperable cancer of the lung in humans, we investigated the possibility that introduction of radioactive material into a selected lobe of the canine lung would effectively destroy that lobe without systemic effects or radiation injury to adjacent organs. Ten million ion exchange microspheres labeled with 740 MBq of phosphorus-32 (32P) were injected through a catheter placed in a selected lobar branch of a pulmonary artery in 12 anesthetized dogs. Six additional dogs served as controls and received 10 million microspheres not labeled with 32P.

[Surface gastric cancer. Lymphatic metastases].

We present 10 cases of early gastric carcinoma with lymph node invasion in a series of 40 cases early gastric cancer operated between 1974 and 1984 in our unit. Two tumours were mucosal and 8 were submucosal. One tumour was polypoid, 5 were superficiel and 4 were ulcerated.

Visualization by dynamic and static osseous scintigraphy of pelvic chondrosarcoma in multiple hereditary exostosis.

Malignant degeneration to chondrosarcoma occurred in the left hemipelvis of a patient with multiple hereditary exostosis. Tc-99m HDP bone scintigraphy revealed markedly increased focal uptake in the areas of left superior pubic ramus, obturator foramen, and ischium with displacement of the urinary bladder. Of particular interest was the presence of vascularities seen in the flow and blood pool scintigrams.