... detect and characterize protein-protein interactions between viral proteins, and also between viral and host gene products He discovered that cyclophilin A, a host prolyl isomerase, binds specifically ... prize recipient KTJ: Would you want your children to become basic research scientists? Why or why not? advice; and Ya-hui Chi, Rieuwert Hoppes and Stephen Goff for preparation of pictures SPG: I ... I grew up taking machinery apart and putting it back together and have always enjoyed watching complicated machines at work I was particularly fascinated by chemistry in high school and with...
... segmentation map (object shapes); (3) shape-adaptive wavelet transform of each object; (4) shape-adaptive SPIHT coding of each object; (5) optimal post-coding rate allocation among objects The accurate ... [23] P Prandoni and M Vetterli, “Approximation and compression of piecewise smooth functions,” Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol 357, no 1760, pp 2573–2591, ... describing edges Of course, the actual success of this approach depends on many factors, such as the profile of edges, the statistical properties of the signal within the objects, and the accuracy...
... Section 3), the associated description is always the same A new approach is presented to this paper, based on tensor analysis, in which a Riemannian space or curved space (as opposed to standard ... distinct positions Such an operation is not problematical in standard Euclidian geometry since the space is flat, homogeneous, and isotropic In our case, the space is not flat but curved and one cannot ... REPRESENTATIONS FROM A STATISTICAL REPRESENTATION AND FROM AN ABSTRACT GRAPH Up to this point, we have associated a Riemann space to an objectand we have characterised the curvature of this space...
... texture, which preserve the perceptual property, such as periodicity, directionality, and randomness By using the decomposition, the stochastic component can be captured while the structural texture ... decomposition: (a) presents a deterministic component, that is, a structural component, and it shows the texture periodicity and directionality and (b) presents a pure random component We choose the ... 1, pp 393–401, 2003 840 [14] R W Picard, “Structured patterns from random fields,” in Proc 26th IEEE Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol 2, pp 1011–1015, Pacific...
... domain in geographic information sciences CONCEPTS OF SPACEAND TIME 25 Figure 2.1 Evidence as an element of the space- time path Consequently, a space- time path can be constructed according to an ... structure to spaceand thus evokes the notion of place Place is ‘a pause in movement’ (Parkes and Thrift, 1980, p 120) The Time Geography approach is an effort to capture the complexity of spacetime ... structures of a space- time path: identity, location and direction Any CONCEPTS OF SPACEAND TIME 21 Figure 2.6 Possible configurations for a space- time path knowledge domain contains a population...
... a chapter to the subject of classification in which three approaches are described: classical categorisation, conceptual clustering and prototype theory As a main criterion in its classification ... categorisation in cartography Choropleth maps, soil maps and climate maps are examples of classical categorisation In these examples, objects (map units) belong to a particular category and are depicted with ... behaviour, prototype theory is considered as an alternative classification approach In this case, objects are grouped according to their degree of relationship to concrete prototypes Prototypes for a class...
... reduced to the perception of nearness of states and events on the space- time path of a lifespan of an entity The demise circumstance characterises the closure of a space- time path It can occur ... object classes belonging to the creation, existence and demise circumstances of a space- time path It represents the connection state-event-state of a space- time path In this case the parent class ... mechanism for the space- time path Changes happen at the instance level in such a way that an entity has its space- time path depicted by different instances of different classes of objects representing...
... the incremental mechanism of space- time paths They provide direct access to historical data concerned with a particular public boundary This has been achieved by creating HistoricalView classes ... Smallworld GIS 6.4 UPDATE SCENARIO The update scenario handles the update procedures due to natural changes and new demarcation descriptions occurring over public boundaries Three update procedures have ... stage focuses on the creation circumstance of a space- time path of a public boundary It represents the origin of a space- time path within Smallworld GIS Stage 1: creation In our example the origin...
... role played by spatial data types in spatial databases Spatio-temporal objects in a spatio-temporal data model capture the synergy between spaceand time of a space- time path in Time Geography ... STDM, spatio-temporal data types offer the advantage of defining object classes with properties that are simultaneously defined in spaceand time (2D space, time) An event in spaceand time can ... century’s change in the livestock geography of Nova Scotia Economic Geography, 38, 38–55 CLIFF, A and ORD, J., 1981, Spatial Processes: Models and Applications, London: Pion Press CLIFFORD, J and ARIAV,...
... Surface Loads to Supporting Members Variety of Built-In Functions for Response Spectrum and Time History Analysis Automatic Multiple Run Batch Capability from Inside GUI Output for User Specified ... Analysis with Damping Power Spectral Density Analysis Incremental Construction Sequence Modeling and Loading (Staged Construction) Restart Capabilities From Any Previous Analysis Multiple Modal Eigen ... 1989) IV NEW MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES New Section Designer Integrated Generation of Arbitrary Steel and Concrete Cross Sections Parametric Shape Generation Section Property Calculations Three Dimensional...
... Competition in Spaceand Time: An Endogenous-Growth Approach Daniel Becker andMichael Rauscher* * The Issue Tax competition has been an important issue in public economics in the past two decades ... determined by demand and supply on the federal level Assets and physical capital are imperfectly malleable Transforming financial capital into physical capital and vice versa is costly We follow ... quantity of a composite capital good consisting of physical capital, human capital, and knowledge capital Initially, each jurisdiction is endowed with K(0)=K0 Capital depreciates at a constant exogenous...
... government, objectivity will work best when it is capable of subjective allegiance – for example, where the principles comprising the legal system are based upon community acceptance and practice Religion ... literacy become the only media for the conscious, articulate participation in significance The unit of significance is the word, carried in speech Philip Allott emphasises the significance of words and ... ending ‘-logy’ connotes the Newtonian, Cartesian conceptual world of the division of physics and metaphysics, objectand subject That is to appreciate the cultural location of these disciplines (‘-nomy’...
... Chen, C L.; Liu, C C.; Liu, C L.; and Soo, V W 2010 Sentiment Classification of Short Chinese Sentences In Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING’10), ... 2008 Music Theory for Computer Musicians Delmar Hsieh, S K 2010 Classifying Mood in Plurks In Proceedings of Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2010), 172–183 ... respect, the system can also serve as a Web -based art piece that uses NLPtechnologies to concretize and portray sentiments visual experiences and interactive emotion -based summarization for microblogs...
... mobile-phone market and, accordingly, boost consumption RFID applications for supply chains and logistics have the potential to enhance manufacturing and shipping considerably China’s national R&D policies ... with nanoscale porosity, nanoscale catalysts, and DNAnanoparticle composites The principal challenge will be to scale up materials from labs to commercial applications Available Capacity TBNA ... Transportation, Space, and Technology Program This research was conducted under the auspices of the Transportation, Space, and Technology (TST) Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety and Environment...
... language processing In Proceedings of EMNLP/VLC-2000, pages 1–8 Michael Collins and Yoram Singer 2000 Unsupervised models for named entity classification In Proceedings of EMNLP/VLC Jim Cowie 1995 CRL/NMSU ... different approaches In this paper, we propose an alternative approach based on a simple rule generator and decision tree learning (RG+DT) Our experiments show that its performance is comparable ... can classify them into positive examples and negative examples for the recognition rule Consequently, we can apply decision tree learning to classify these examples correctly We represent each...
... physics (such as nuclear physics and condensed matter physics) and in many other scientific fields, including materials science, computing, biology, chemistry, and nanoscience The health of science ... of Spaceand Time: Charting the Course for Elementary Particle Physics http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11641.html 10 REVEALING THE HIDDEN NATURE OF SPACEAND TIME international particle physics program ... devoted primarily to particle physics, Fermilab has an opportunity and a responsibility to the national particle physics program to secure the ILC as its top priority Action Item Scientific priorities...