A Recent Trend in Individual Counting Approach Using Deep Network

In video surveillance scheme, counting individuals is regarded as a crucial task. Of all the individual counting techniques in existence, the regression technique can offer enhanced performance under overcrowded area. However, this technique is unable to specify the details of counting individual such that it fails in locating the individual. On contrary, the density map approach is very effective to overcome the counting problems in various situations such as heavy overlapping and low resolution. Nevertheless, this approach may break down in cases when only the heads of individuals appear in video scenes, and it is also restricted to the feature’s types. The popular technique to obtain the pertinent information automatically is Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, the CNN based counting scheme is unable to sufficiently tackle three difficulties, namely, distributions of non-uniform density, changes of scale and variation of drastic scale. In this study, we cater a review on current counting techniques which are in correlation with deep net in different applications of crowded scene. The goal of this work is to specify the effectiveness of CNN applied on popular individuals counting approaches for attaining higher precision results

The comparison of marital satisfaction and moral intelligence and its relationship with immoral commitment in men

For downloading the full-text of this article please click here.Background and Objectives: Previous study indicated infidelity has a pernicious influence on diverse aspects of health’s marital relationship including intimacy, and confident couple. Therefore, it is critical to investigate the related factors may be engender it. It seems that the interpersonal and personal defects in some factors such as, marital satisfaction and moral intelligence stimulate the couple to commence new relationship. The aim of the current study is to compare the marital satisfaction and moral intelligence among infidelity and non-infidelity men.Materials and Methods: This research is a descriptive -comparative research. The samples of current research include 100 infidelity men and 100 men non-infidelity that were selected through purposive sampling in Tehran city. They respond to three research instruments such as; Marital Satisfaction Inventory(MSI), Moral Intelligence Index(MI), and Infidelity Questionnaire.Statistical analysis was conducted by using the independent t-test and spss18.Results: The findings revealed that there is a significant difference between marital satisfaction in infidelity(14.53±10125) and non-infidelity(15.56±117.72) men(p< 0.001, t= 7.73). Also, moral intelligence of infidelity (13.72±138.15) men is significantly lower than moral intelligence’s fidelity men (147.28±11.80) (p<0,001, t= 5.04(.Conclusion: According to results of the present study, the marital satisfaction and moral intelligence play an important role in infidelity among men. Therefore, these variables should be considered  as effective factors in the prevention and reconstruction relationship of the therapeutic process by family and couple therapists.Keywords:  marital satisfaction, moral intelligence, infidelity, menFor downloading the full-text of this article please click here

Comparative Analysis of Algorithms in Supervised Classification: A Case study of Bank Notes Dataset

Abstract There are different techniques in conducting data mining that range from clustering, association rule mining, prediction and classification. These techniques are applied using learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Naïve Bayes, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN). When conducting data mining, the choice of algorithm to use is an important decision because it depends on factors such as the nature or type of data under examination, and the target outcome of the data mining activity. In this study, we compare Naïve Bayes and Multilayer Perceptron using the classification technique as a case study on the Bank Notes dataset from the University of California Irvine (UCI) from two standpoints, which are; holdout and cross validation. Result from experiments show Multilayer Perceptron outperforms Naïve Bayes in terms of accuracy from both standpoints of holdout and cross validation

مقايسه‌‌ی رضايت زناشويي و هوش اخلاقي و رابطه‌ی آن با عدم تعهد اخلاقي در مردان

Background and Objectives: Previous study indicated infidelity has a pernicious influence on diverse aspects of health’s marital relationship including intimacy, and confident couple. Therefore, it is critical to investigate the related factors may be engender it. It seems that the interpersonal and personal defects in some factors such as, marital satisfaction and moral intelligence stimulate the couple to commence new relationship. The aim of the current study is to compare the marital satisfaction and moral intelligence among infidelity and non-infidelity men. Materials and Methods: This research is a descriptive -comparative research. The samples of current research include 100 infidelity men and 100 men non-infidelity that were selected through purposive sampling in Tehran city. They respond to three research instruments such as; Marital Satisfaction Inventory(MSI), Moral Intelligence Index(MI), and Infidelity Questionnaire.Statistical analysis was conducted by using the independent t-test and spss18. Results: The findings revealed that there is a significant difference between marital satisfaction in infidelity(14.53±10125) and non-infidelity(15.56±117.72) men(p< 0.001, t= 7.73). Also, moral intelligence of infidelity (13.72±138.15) men is significantly lower than moral intelligence’s fidelity men (147.28±11.80) (p<0,001, t= 5.04(. Conclusion: According to results of the present study, the marital satisfaction and moral intelligence play an important role in infidelity among men. Therefore, these variables should be considered  as effective factors in the prevention and reconstruction relationship of the therapeutic process by family and couple therapists.سابقه و اهداف: مطالعه‌های پيشين نشان داد،  عدم تعهد اخلاقي تأثيرهای مخربي بر بُعدهای مختلف سلامت رابطه‌ی زناشويي، چون صميميت و اعتماد بين زوجين، دارد. بنابراين، ضروري است تا عامل‌هاي مؤثر در ايجاد عدم تعهد اخلاقي بررسي شود. به نظر مي‌رسد کمبودهاي فردي و بين فردي در عامل‌هايي چون عدم رضايت زناشويي و هوش اخلاقي، زوج‌ها را در شروع رابطه‌ی جديد ترغيب مي­کند. هدف پژوهش حاضر، مقايسه‌ی رضايت زناشويي و هوش اخلاقي در مردان پايبند به تعهد اخلاقي و ناپایبند به تعهد اخلاقي است. مواد و روش‌ها: پژوهش حاضر، ازنوع توصيفي- مقايسه‌یي است. نمونه‌ی پژوهش حاضر، شامل 100 مرد پيمان‌شکن و 100مرد غير پيمان‌شکن است که از طريق نمونه‌گيري هدفمند در شهر تهران انتخاب شدند. آن‌ها به سئوال‌های سه ابزار پژوهشيِ پرسش‌نامه‌ی رضايت زناشويي، شاخص هوش اخلاقي و پرسش‌نامه‌ی پيمان‌شکني پاسخ دادند. تحليل آماري با استفاده از آزمون تي مستقل و نرم‌افزار Spss نسخه‌ی 18 انجام شد. یافته‌ها: يافته‌ها نشان داد که تفاوت معناداري بين رضايت زناشويي در مردان ناپايبند به تعهد اخلاقي(25/101±53/14) و پايبند به تعهد اخلاقي(72/117±56/15) وجود دارد(t= 7.73, p<0.001). همچنين، هوش اخلاقي به‌طور معناداري در مردان ناپايبند به تعهد اخلاقي(15/138±72/13) کم‌تر از گروه مردان پايبند به تعهداخلاقي(28/147±80/11) است(p<0.001, t= 5.04). نتیجه‌گیری: بر طبق نتيجه‌ی پژوهش حاضر، رضايت زناشويي و هوش اخلاقي، نقش مهمي در عدم پايبندي به تعهد اخلاقي مردان دارد. از اين‌رو، اين متغيرها را بايد فاکتورهایي مؤثر در فرايند درماني پيشگيرانه در نظر گرفت و در بازسازي رابطه درمانگرانِ خانواده و زوج مورد توجه قرار داد

Atrial Fibrillation and Colonic Neoplasia in African Americans

<div><p>Background</p><p>Colorectal cancer (CRC) and atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF) share several risk factors including increasing age and obesity. However, the association between CRC and AF has not been thoroughly examined, especially in African Americans. In this study we aimed to assess the prevalence of AF and its risk factors in colorectal neoplasia in an African American.</p><p>Methods</p><p>We reviewed records of 527 African American patients diagnosed with CRC and 1008 patients diagnosed with benign colonic lesions at Howard University Hospital from January 2000 to December 2012. A control group of 731 hospitalized patients without any cancer or colonic lesion were randomly selected from the same time and age range, excluding patients who had diagnosis of both CRC and/or adenoma. The presence or absence of AF was based upon ICD-9 code documentation. The prevalence of AF in these three groups was compared by multivariate logistic regression.</p><p>Results</p><p>The prevalence of AF was highest among CRC patients (10%) followed by adenoma patients (7.2%) then the control group (5.4%, P for trend = 0.002). In the three groups of participants, older age (P<0.008) and heart failure (P<0.001) were significantly associated with higher risk of AF. After adjusting for these risk factors, CRC (OR: 1.4(95%CI):0.9–2.2, P = 0.2) and adenoma (OR: 1.1(95%CI):0.7–1.6, P = 0.7) were not significantly associated AF compared to control group.</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>AF is highly prevalent among CRC patients; 1 in 10 patients had AF in our study. The predictors of AF in CRC was similar to that in adenoma and other patients after adjustment for potential confounders suggesting that the increased AF risk in CRC is explained by higher prevalence of AF risk factors.</p></div