Motion Objects Segmentation and Shadow Suppressing without Background Learning by Y.-P. Guan

“…According to the fact that the saturation component is lower in the region of shadow and is independent of the brightness, HSV color space is selected to extract foreground motion region and suppress shadow instead of other color models. …”
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FUZZY LOGIC APPROACH TO ENERGY PLANNING IN NIGERIA by ADE-IKUESAN OLANIKE OLUFISAYO, ATILOLA MORUFDEEN OLATUNBOSUN, OYEDEJI AJIBOLA OLUWAFEMI, ADEYEMI HEZEKIAH OLUWOLE

“…Population and gross domestic product (GDP) are used as the independent variables to forecast load demand based on the previous load demand. …”
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Przedszkolny plac zabaw z perspektywy dzieci by Jolanta Zwiernik

“…The pedagogue’s perspective obliges the reader to pay attention to the consequences of the identified discourse, limiting children’s opportunities to acquire important motor and social skills, thus reducing their chances of becoming an independent and responsible subject. …”
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A Limit Theorem for Random Products of Trimmed Sums of i.i.d. Random Variables by Fa-mei Zheng

“…Let {𝑋,𝑋𝑖;𝑖≥1} be a sequence of independent and identically distributed positive random variables with a continuous distribution function 𝐹, and 𝐹 has a medium tail. …”
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Mineralization of Dentinal Lesions with Different Concentrations of Fluoride by Ayah A. Al-Asmar

“…On the other hand, the lesion front remineralization was found to be independent of fluoride concentration. Conclusion. Our results stated that for effective remineralization of dentinal lesions to the innermost part, fluoride levels from 1.0 to 5.0 ppm have the highest efficiency.…”
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Finite-Time Synchronization for Complex-Valued Recurrent Neural Networks with Time Delays by Ziye Zhang, Xiaoping Liu, Chong Lin, Bing Chen

“…To achieve our aim, a nonlinear delayed controller with two independent parameters different from the existing ones is provided, which leads to great difficulty. …”
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Cournot–Bertrand Duopoly Model: Dynamic Analysis Based on a Computed Cost by S. S. Askar, Ahmed M. Alshamrani

“…Furthermore, the case when both competing firms are independent is investigated. Due to unsymmetrical structure of the game’s map, global analysis gives rise to complicated basin of attraction for some attracting sets. …”
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One-Man Lobby in America: Vahan Cardashian (1883-1934) by Kürşad, Karacagil

“…Among these activities were the foundation of an independent Armenia, one of the issues discussed in the Sevrès Treaty, non-ratification of the Turco-American treaty signed on 6 August 1923 in Lausanne and his negative propaganda against Turkish ambassador to Washington, Ahmed Muhtar Bey.…”
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REVISING THE PROJECT OF MODERNITY HERMENEUTICS by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…Therefore the (cartesian) epistemological performative stand is indispensable in attributing an independent variable status both to modern subjec-tivity (as articulated by Descartes and Schleiermacher) or "post-modern" intersubjectivity. …”
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The Spread of Descriptive Geometry in Great Britain Between the XVIII and XIX Century by Stefano Chiarenza

“…Its circulation among professionals, craftsmen and designers, though well attested before, sees it grafted onto a series of independent research experiences, also fueling the attempts by British theoreticians to define a universal system of graphic communication. …”
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The future of education: “Freedom” as the foundation of the curriculum by Nadira Salsabila, Akmalia Faldia Ihtisani, Izza Zahrotul Mufidah

“…The findings and discussion relate to the determination of the 2020 independent curriculum, its differences from the previous curriculum, and its impact on teaching staff and students. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BOARD CHARACTERISTICS AND PROFITABILITY AMONG DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA by S.O. James, S.O Ajayi

“…Profitability which is the Dependent Variable is proxied by Return on Asset (ROA); while Board Size, Board Independence, Gender Diversity and Board Meeting are Independent Variables. …”
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Outage Analysis of Partial Relay Selection Schemes with Feedback Delay and Channel Estimation Errors in Nonidentical Rayleigh Fading Channels by Jung-Bin Kim, In-Ho Lee

“…Considering imperfect channel estimation and outdated CSI with decode-and-forward (DF) relaying strategy, closed-form expressions for exact outage probabilities and asymptotic outage probabilities for PRS and EPRS are provided assuming independent and nonidentically distributed Rayleigh fading channels. …”
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The Association of Sleep Disordered Breathing with Heart Failure and Other Cardiovascular Conditions by Elizabeth Stopford, Karthik Ravi, Vikrant Nayar

“…A clear body of evidence exists to link these two disease entities (independent of other factors such as obesity and smoking), yet our awareness of this association and its clinical implication does not match that of other established cardiovascular risk factors. …”
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Automatic Quantification of Immunohistochemically Stained Cell Nuclei Using Unsupervised Image Analysis by Petter Ranefall, Kenneth Wester, Ewert Bengtsson

“…The method is fully automatic and the principal component approach makes it robust with respect to illumination and focus settings. An independent test set consisting of images grabbed with different focus and illumination for each field of view was used to test the method, and the proposed method showed less variation than the intraoperator variation using supervised Maximum Likelihood classification.…”
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A framework for flow time measured by Doppler ultrasound by Jon-Emile S. Kenny

“…Using Doppler ultrasound of the left ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (LVOT VTI) as well as strain and strain rate echocardiography as grounding principles, this brief commentary offers a model for the independent influences of FT. This framework establishes that systolic duration is directly proportional to the distance traversed by a single cardiac myocyte and indirectly proportional to its shortening velocity. …”
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The Perception of Auditors in the Measurement of Instruments Financial Institutions at Fair Value in Financial Institutions by Paulo Cesar de Melo Mendes, Jorge Katsumi Niyama, Cesar Augusto Tiburcio Silva

“…A questionnaire was applied with a sample of 62 independent auditors with technical qualification in financial institutions of large audit firms among partners, managers and senior auditors. …”
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On Complex Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets with Distance Measures and Entropies by Tanuj Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Bajaj

“…However, the theory of complex fuzzy sets and complex intuitionistic fuzzy sets are independent of the parametrization tools. Some real life problems, for example, multicriteria decision making problems, involve the parametrization tools. …”
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Can humanitarian interventions help create global peace? Common practices, normative change and the end of nationalism by Michael Haiden

“…Both of these developments may help us overcome the current system of independent nation-states, which, as I will show, currently allows and even promotes wars. …”
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WHAT DRIVES THE CHANGES IN THE GULF OIL MONARCHIES? by N. Kjurchiski

“…Along with the gradual liberalisation process there is also need in institutional development to make institutions stronger and more independent.…”
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