Journal ArticleEuropean Journal of Development Research · April 1, 2022
At present, no clear consensus exists on how to assess resilience interventions in the field. In this paper we propose to measure the impact of the ECOFISH project, the objective of which was to strengthen the resilience of local fishing communities affect ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Endosc · March 2021
INTRODUCTION: Data supporting endoscopic resection (ER) over surgical resection (SR) for large and complex polyps come from high-volume centers. The aim of this study was to determine whether these favorable outcomes can be replicated among endoscopists at ...
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Journal ArticleWorld J Gastrointest Endosc · March 16, 2015
AIM: To evaluate the success rates of performing therapy utilizing a rotational assisted enteroscopy device in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in surgically altered anatomy patients. METHODS: Between June 1, 2009 and November 8, 2012, ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance Avss 2012 · November 6, 2012
Robust background subtraction (BS) is essential for high quality foreground detection in most video analytics systems. Recent BS techniques achieve superior detection quality mostly by exploiting the complementary strengths of multiple background models or ...
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Journal ArticleDig Dis Sci · November 2012
BACKGROUND: Covered or uncovered self expandable metallic stents (SEMS) placed in patients with malignant biliary obstruction can occlude in 19-40 %, but optimal management is unclear. AIM: We sought to summarize current evidence regarding management of oc ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops Icmew 2012 · October 4, 2012
Event detection in unseen scenarios is a challenging problem due to high variability of scene type, viewing direction, nature of scene entities, and environmental conditions. Existing event detection approaches mostly rely on context-specific tuning and tr ...
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Journal ArticleProceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops Icmew 2012 · October 4, 2012
In this paper, we propose a new background subtraction technique based on perceptual mixture-of-Gaussians (PMOG). Unlike numerous variants of the classical MOG based approach [1], which can ensure reliable detection result only in known operating environme ...
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Journal ArticleN Z Med J · May 26, 2000
AIMS: To describe the prevalence and severity of dyspepsia and gastro-oesophageal reflux in the community, to investigate their association with lifestyle factors and to evaluate the consultation pattern for these conditions. METHOD: A previously validated ...
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Journal ArticleAliment Pharmacol Ther · February 1999
BACKGROUND: There is not at present a suitable disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument for uninvestigated dyspepsia and functional (non-ulcer) dyspepsia. AIM: To develop a new multi-dimensional disease-specific instrument. METHODS: The N ...
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