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Large-Scale Remote Sensing Image Retrieval by Deep Hashing Neural Networks

As one of the most challenging tasks of remote sensing big data mining, large-scale remote sensing image retrieval has attracted increasing attention from researchers. Existing large-scale remote sensing image retrieval approaches are generally implemented by using hashing learning methods, which take handcrafted features as inputs and map the high-dimensional feature vector to the low-dimensional binary feature vector to reduce feature-searching complexity levels. As a means of applying the merits of deep learning, this paper proposes a novel large-scale remote sensing image retrieval approach based on deep hashing neural networks (DHNNs). More specifically, DHNNs are composed of deep feature learning neural networks and hashing learning neural networks and can be optimized in an end-to-end manner. Rather than requiring to dedicate expertise and effort to the design of feature descriptors, we can automatically learn good feature extraction operations and feature hashing mapping under the supervision of labeled samples. To broaden the application field, DHNNs are evaluated under two representative remote sensing cases: scarce and sufficient labeled samples. To make up for a lack of labeled samples, DHNNs can be trained via transfer learning for the former case. For the latter case, DHNNs can be trained via supervised learning from scratch with the aid of a vast number of labeled samples. Extensive experiments on one public remote sensing image data set with a limited number of labeled samples and on another public data set with plenty of labeled samples show that the proposed remote sensing image retrieval approach based on DHNNs can remarkably outperform state-of-the-art methods under both of the examined conditions.
Mini-Open Anterior Retroperitoneal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Oblique Lateral Interbody Fusion for Degenerated Lumbar Spinal Kyphoscoliosis

STUDY DESIGN
Prospective case series.


PURPOSE
To examine the clinical efficacy of mini-open anterior retroperitoneal lumbar interbody fusion: oblique lateral interbody fusion (OLIF) for degenerated lumbar spinal kyphoscoliosis.


OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE
The existing surgical procedures for the treatment of spinal kyphotic deformity, including Smith-Petersen osteotomy, pedicle subtraction osteotomy, and vertebral column resection procedures, are invasive in nature. Extreme lateral interbody fusion to provide less invasive treatment of the deformity has been reported, but complications including spinal nerve and psoas muscle injury have been noted. In the current study, we examined the clinical efficacy and complications of OLIF for degenerated lumbar spinal kyphoscoliosis.


METHODS
Twelve patients with degenerated lumbar spinal kyphoscoliosis were examined. All patients underwent OLIF surgery (using a cage and bone graft from the iliac crest) with open pedicle screws or percutaneous pedicle screws, without real-time monitoring by electromyography. Visual analog scale score and Oswestry disability index were evaluated before and 12 months after surgery, and fusion rate at OLIF cage, correction of the deformity, total blood loss, and surgical complications were also evaluated.


RESULTS
Pain scores significantly improved after surgery (p<0.05). Fusion rate was found to be 90%, balance parameters also improved after surgery (p<0.05), and average total blood loss was less than 350 mL. There was no spinal nerve, major vessel, peritoneal, or urinary injury, or breakage of instrumentation.


CONCLUSIONS
OLIF surgery for degenerated lumbar spinal kyphoscoliosis is less invasive than other procedures and good surgical results were produced without major complications.
Epidemiology and clinical features of systemic vasculitis

Different vasculitic syndromes present in different age groups. Immunoglobulin (Ig)A vasculitis and Kawasaki disease usually present in children whereas giant cell arteritis (GCA) and anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis usually present in the middle aged/elderly. In Northern Europe, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA; Wegener’s) is commoner than microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) and MPA is more common than eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EPGA; Churg−Strauss syndrome). In Southern Europe, MPA is commoner than GPA and in Japan MPA is much more common than GPA. Major differences exist worldwide in ANCA specificity which are not entirely related to different phenotypes. GPA, like GCA, has a cyclical pattern of onset suggesting possible infection as an aetiological agent. International studies have given important clues to possible aetiology including silica dust and infection and genetic influences, as shown by the recently published genome-wide association study which revealed that single-nucleotide polymorphisms associate more strongly with ANCA than clinical syndromes. A brief description of the main clinical features of ANCA-associated vasculitis is also given.
Abstract 174: Healthcare Provider Compliance with the 2013 ACC/AHA Blood Cholesterol Guidelines for Statin Therapy for Diabetic Patients of Ages 40 to 75

Introduction: On the basis of documented outcome benefit in randomized clinical trials, 2013 ACC/AHA blood cholesterol guidelines advocate use of moderate to high intensity statin therapy in all di...
Isolation of Newcastle Disease Viruses of High Virulence in Unvaccinated Healthy Village Chickens in South India

Three isolates of Newcastle disease virus obtained from normal village chickens, which were never vaccinated against Newcastle disease were characterized. These isolates namely D8, D53 and D58 were found to have an ICPI value of 1.59, 0.50 and 0.14 respectively. The deduced amino acid sequence at the FPCS of these three isolates between positions 112 and 119 were G-R-R-Q-K-R-F-I-G-G-R-R-Q-K-R-FI-Gand – G-G-R-Q-G-R-L-I-Grespectively. The two isolates namely D8 and D53 had phenylalanine (F) residue at position 117, confirming their high virulence to chicken, whereas the isolate D58 had leucine (L) at 117 confirming their low virulence to chicken. The existence of NDV with high ICPI confirms the circulation of virulent NDV in village chicken raised in the backyard, which could be a threat to commercial chicken.
Knowledge Discovery Techniques for Talent Forecasting in Human Resource Application

Human Resource (HR) applications can be used to provide fair and consistent decisions, and to improve the effectiveness of decision making processes. Besides that, among the challenge for HR professionals is to manage organization talents, especially to ensure the right person for the right job at the right time. For that reason, in this article, we attempt to describe the potential to implement one of the talent management tasks i.e. identifying existing talent by predicting their performance as one of HR application for talent management. This study suggests the potential HR system architecture for talent forecasting by using past experience knowledge known as Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD) or Data Mining. This article consists of three main parts; the first part deals with the overview of HR applications, the prediction techniques and application, the general view of Data mining and the basic concept of talent management in HRM. The second part is to understand the use of Data Mining technique in order to solve one of the talent management tasks, and the third part is to propose the potential HR system architecture for talent forecasting. Keywords—HR Application, Knowledge Discovery in Database (KDD), Talent Forecasting.
Efficiency of Lift Production in Flapping and Gliding Flight of Swifts

Many flying animals use both flapping and gliding flight as part of their routine behaviour. These two kinematic patterns impose conflicting requirements on wing design for aerodynamic efficiency and, in the absence of extreme morphing, wings cannot be optimised for both flight modes. In gliding flight, the wing experiences uniform incident flow and the optimal shape is a high aspect ratio wing with an elliptical planform. In flapping flight, on the other hand, the wing tip travels faster than the root, creating a spanwise velocity gradient. To compensate, the optimal wing shape should taper towards the tip (reducing the local chord) and/or twist from root to tip (reducing local angle of attack). We hypothesised that, if a bird is limited in its ability to morph its wings and adapt its wing shape to suit both flight modes, then a preference towards flapping flight optimization will be expected since this is the most energetically demanding flight mode. We tested this by studying a well-known flap-gliding species, the common swift, by measuring the wakes generated by two birds, one in gliding and one in flapping flight in a wind tunnel. We calculated span efficiency, the efficiency of lift production, and found that the flapping swift had consistently higher span efficiency than the gliding swift. This supports our hypothesis and suggests that even though swifts have been shown previously to increase their lift-to-drag ratio substantially when gliding, the wing morphology is tuned to be more aerodynamically efficient in generating lift during flapping. Since body drag can be assumed to be similar for both flapping and gliding, it follows that the higher total drag in flapping flight compared with gliding flight is primarily a consequence of an increase in wing profile drag due to the flapping motion, exceeding the reduction in induced drag.
Accuracy of simple, initials-based methods for author name disambiguation

There are a number of solutions that perform unsupervised name disambiguation based on the similarity of bibliographic records or common co-authorship patterns. Whether the use of these advanced methods, which are often difficult to implement, is warranted depends on whether the accuracy of the most basic disambiguation methods, which only use the author's last name and initials, is sufficient for a particular purpose. We derive realistic estimates for the accuracy of simple, initials-based methods using simulated bibliographic datasets in which the true identities of authors are known. Based on the simulations in five diverse disciplines we find that the first initial method already correctly identifies 97% of authors. An alternative simple method, which takes all initials into account, is typically two times less accurate, except in certain datasets that can be identified by applying a simple criterion. Finally, we introduce a new name-based method that combines the features of first initial and all initials methods by implicitly taking into account the last name frequency and the size of the dataset. This hybrid method reduces the fraction of incorrectly identified authors by 10-30% over the first initial method. For a significant fraction of studies that are based on bibliometric data, as well as for purposes of research evaluation, it is essential to be able to attribute specific bibliographic records to individual researchers. A practical problem with this straightforward step is that there is a certain level of ambiguity in this process, which is known as the author name disambiguation problem. The problem manifests itself in two ways: a given individual may be identified as two or more authors (splitting), or, two or more individuals may be identified as a single author (merging). Here we use the term individual to refer to an actual person, and an author to refer to an entity that results from the author disambiguation procedure. Both the splitting and the merging can happen as the result of the same disambiguation method. The problem of author disambiguation fundamentally arises because personal names are not sufficiently distinct considering the large number of researchers active in most disciplines today. It is further exacerbated by the inconsistent way in which author names are reported in publications. The
Hybrid Digital Adaptive Control for Fast Transient Response in Synchronous Buck DC–DC Converters

This paper presents a hybrid digital adaptive (HDA) control for fast step-load transient responses in synchronous buck DC-DC converters. The proposed HDA controller results in near-time-optimal step-load transient responses even when the output voltage is sampled using a relatively low-resolution, narrow-range window A/D converter. The controller is a combination of a standard constant-frequency pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) control in the vicinity of steady-state operating point and a bank of switching surface controllers (SSCs) away from the reference. The switching surface slope is adaptively selected by a supervisor based on an inductor current estimate. Furthermore, the controller is capable of taking into account a maximum inductor current limitation. A large-signal stability analysis is presented for all possible cases during transients when one of the SSCs is active. Experimental results demonstrate fast transient responses for a 1.3 V, 10 A synchronous buck converter over a wide range of step-load transients.
DSigDB: drug signatures database for gene set analysis

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We report the creation of Drug Signatures Database (DSigDB), a new gene set resource that relates drugs/compounds and their target genes, for gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). DSigDB currently holds 22 527 gene sets, consists of 17 389 unique compounds covering 19 531 genes. We also developed an online DSigDB resource that allows users to search, view and download drugs/compounds and gene sets. DSigDB gene sets provide seamless integration to GSEA software for linking gene expressions with drugs/compounds for drug repurposing and translational research.


AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION
DSigDB is freely available for non-commercial use at http://tanlab.ucdenver.edu/DSigDB.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.


CONTACT
aikchoon.tan@ucdenver.edu.
Evaluation of a 4.5 kW Commercial Hall Thruster System for NASA Science Missions

The readiness of commercial Hall thruster technology is evaluated for near-term use on competitively-award, cost-capped science missions like the NASA Discovery program. Scientists on these programs continue to place higher demands on mission performance that must trade against the cost and performance of propulsion system options. Solar electric propulsion (SEP) systems can provide enabling or enhancing capabilities to several missions, but the widespread and routine use of SEP will only be realized through aggressive cost and schedule risk reduction efforts. Significant cost and schedule risk reductions can potentially be realized with systems based on commercial Hall thruster technology. The abundance of commercial suppliers in the United States and abroad provides a sustainable base from which Hall thruster systems can be cost-effectively obtained through procurements from existing product lines. A Hall thruster propulsion system standard architecture for NASA science missions is proposed. The BPT-4000 from Aerojet is identified as a candidate for near-term use. Differences in qualification requirements between commercial and science missions are identified and a plan is presented for a low-cost, low-risk delta qualification effort. Mission analysis for Discovery-class reference missions are discussed comparing the relative cost and performance benefits of a BPT-4000 based system to an NSTAR ion thruster based system. The BPT-4000 system seems best suited to destinations located relatively close to the sun, inside approximately 2 AU. On a reference near Earth asteroid sample return mission, the BPT-4000 offers mass performance competitive with or superior to NSTAR at much lower cost. Additionally, it is found that a low-cost, mid-power commercial Hall thruster system may be a viable alternative to aerobraking for some missions. Suggestions for the nearand far-term implementation of commercial Hall thrusters on NASA science missions are discussed.
Quantitative comparison of the cross-protection induced by tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccines based on European and Far Eastern virus subtypes.

Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is a flavivirus of wide geographic distribution and the causative agent of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), an infection of the central nervous system. TBE has the highest incidence rate in Russia, where locally produced as well as Western European vaccines for the prevention of TBE are available. The Western European vaccines are based on TBE viruses that belong to the European subtype, while the Russian vaccines are based on Far Eastern subtype viruses. The question of to which extent vaccination with a vaccine based on the European subtype is effective in protecting against the heterologous Far Eastern virus subtype - and vice versa - has not been answered conclusively. Here we immunized mice with TBE vaccines based on European and Far Eastern subtype viruses, and used an unbiased hybrid virus test system to determine cross-neutralizing antibody titers and cross-protective efficacy. All vaccines tested elicited cross-protective responses against the heterologous strains, similar to those induced against the respective homologous vaccine strains. These data, therefore, fully support the use of TBE vaccines in geographic regions where virus subtypes heterologous to the vaccine strains are prevalent.
Selective area epitaxy of ultra-high density InGaN quantum dots by diblock copolymer lithography

Highly uniform InGaN-based quantum dots (QDs) grown on a nanopatterned dielectric layer defined by self-assembled diblock copolymer were performed by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. The cylindrical-shaped nanopatterns were created on SiNx layers deposited on a GaN template, which provided the nanopatterning for the epitaxy of ultra-high density QD with uniform size and distribution. Scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy measurements were conducted to investigate the QDs morphology. The InGaN/GaN QDs with density up to 8 × 1010 cm-2 are realized, which represents ultra-high dot density for highly uniform and well-controlled, nitride-based QDs, with QD diameter of approximately 22-25 nm. The photoluminescence (PL) studies indicated the importance of NH3 annealing and GaN spacer layer growth for improving the PL intensity of the SiNx-treated GaN surface, to achieve high optical-quality QDs applicable for photonics devices.
Pediatric Readiness in Indian Health Service and Tribal Emergency Departments: Results from the National Pediatric Readiness Project.

INTRODUCTION
In 2014, 45 Indian Health Service (IHS)/Tribal emergency departments serving American Indian and Alaskan Native communities treated approximately 650,000 patients of which, 185,000 (28%) were children and youth younger than 19 years. This study presents the results of the National Pediatric Readiness Project (NPRP) assessment of the 45 IHS/Tribal emergency departments.


METHODS
Data were obtained from the 2013 NPRP national assessment, which is a 55-question Web-based questionnaire based on previously published 2009 national consensus guidelines. The main measure of readiness is the weighted pediatric readiness score (WPRS), with the highest score being 100.


RESULTS
The overall mean WPRS for all emergency departments is 60.9. Of the IHS/Tribal emergency departments that had pediatric emergency care coordinators, scores across all domains were higher than those of emergency departments without pediatric emergency care coordinators. All 45 emergency departments have readily available a pediatric medication dosing chart, length-based tape, medical software, or other system to ensure proper sizing of resuscitation equipment and proper dosing of medication. Of the 45 IHS/Tribal 37% report having 100% of the equipment items, and 78% report having at least 80% of these items.


DISCUSSION
This article reports the results of the NPRP assessment in IHS/Tribal emergency departments that, despite serving a historically vulnerable population, scored favorably when compared with national data. The survey identified areas for improvement, including implementation of QI processes, stocking of pediatric specific equipment, implementation of policies and procedures on interfacility transport, and maintaining staff pediatric competencies.
Physical and Mechanical Properties of Niobium for SRF Science and Technology

Optimized mechanical and physical properties of high purity niobium are crucial for obtaining high performance SRF particle beam accelerator structures consistently. This paper summarizes these important material properties for both high purity polycrystalline and single crystal niobium.
The Causal Role of the Right Hemisphere in Self-Awareness: It is the Brain that is Selective

current stance that the right hemisphere (in particular, right fronto-parietal structures) may mediate self-awareness and other higher-order meta-representations was recently postulated by us in a recent issue of Cortex (Keenan et al., 2005). The idea that the self can be localized at all is a controversial hypothesis (e.g., Dennett, 1992; Gillihan and Farah, 2005), and as such, deserves further attention. The questions raised by Alain Morin are in fact no different than those we have raised ourselves, and we are grateful for the opportunity to further elucidate why a growing number of researchers would suggest a right hemisphere dominance for the self. As this journal is focused on neuroscience, we will limit the main ideas as they relate directly to the brain, rather than solely on behavior. If readers wish to further examine behavioral data, there are a number of resources where full discussions of self-face recognition and other issues of self-awareness are presented (Keenan et al. ancillary update of behavioral data is worth noting as it will set the stage for the direct examinations of the brain and the self. Three final caveats must be put in place prior to proceeding, one is the reference to the previous review published in this journal that we hope not to repeat unless absolutely necessary (Keenan et al., 2005). The second is that space requirements will focus us on the self, in particular, the self-face. A debate on Theory of Mind (ToM) is not possible in this space, though we will briefly mention a number of studies involving causality. We will also not review the evidence on medial prefrontal or medial parietal regions activated for self tasks (Mitchell et al., 2005). These data are reviewed elsewhere (Ochsner et al., 2005), and as such, will not be examined here, though they will be commented on. THE SELF AND EXPERIMENTATION One is wise to note that the study, definition, or elucidation of self-awareness or any other higher-order cognitive ability is vastly complicated. Based upon this notion, one would be equally wise to employ multiple approaches to such study from an experimental perspective. Simply, we must move from correlation to causation, be it at the level of brain, behavior or both. When doing so, one will realize, as the critic potentially suggests by giving us such a provocative title, that it is the brain, rather than the researcher, that is selective in terms of the …
Swinging up a pendulum by energy control

Properties of simple strategies for swinging up an inverted pendulum are discussed. It is shown that the behavior critically depends on the ratio of the maximum acceleration of the pivot to the acceleration of gravity. A comparison of energy based strategies with minimum time strategy gives interesting insights into the robustness of minimum time solutions.