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Flexible Execution of Plans with Choice

Dynamic plan execution strategies allow an autonomous agent to respond to uncertainties while improving robustness and reducing the need for an overly conservative plan. Executives have improved this robustness by expanding the types of choices made dynamically, such as selecting alternate methods. However, in methods to date, these additional choices introduce substantial run-time latency. This paper presents a novel system called Drake that makes steps towards executing an expanded set of choices dynamically without significant latency. Drake frames a plan as a Disjunctive Temporal Problem and executes it with a fast dynamic scheduling algorithm. Prior work demonstrated an efficient technique for dynamic execution of one special type of DTPs by using an off-line compilation step to find the possible consistent choices and compactly record the differences between them. Drake extends this work to handle a more general set of choices by recording the minimal differences between the solutions which are required at run-time. On randomly generated structured plans with choice, we show a reduction in the size of the solution set of over two orders of magnitude, compared to prior art.
Object Recognition in Multi-View Dual Energy X-ray Images

Object recognition in X-ray images is an interesting application of machine vision that can help reduce the workload of human operators of X-ray scanners at security checkpoints. In this paper, we ﬁrst present a comprehensive evaluation of image clas-siﬁcation and object detection in X-ray images using standard local features in a BoW framework with (structural) SVMs. Then, we extend the features to utilize the extra information available in dual energy X-ray images. Finally, we propose a multi-view branch-and-bound algorithm for multi-view object detection. Through extensive experiments on three object categories, we show that the classiﬁcation and detection performance substantially improves with the extended features and multiple views.
CMOS passive RFID transponder with read-only memory for low cost fabrication

A fully integrated CMOS passive RFID transponder without EEPROM and control logic was designed and simulated. 1.5V of the operation voltage was generated by the charge pump and the average power required for operation was 62.9 /spl mu/W at 910MHz. 0.41 /spl times/ 0.64mm/sup 2/ of die area was required for fabricating the suggested RFID chip.
An Intelligent Weighing System based on Editable Formula and Alterable Resolution

This paper is to design an intelligent weighing system to solve the problems in enterprises, such as incompatibility with hardware and software environment in different enterprise scenarios, the fixed interface layout and the dilemma that a single-way computational formulas can not fit the workflow of complementation of weighing system flexibly. A self-defining formula method is proposed to meet different demands from variable enterprises, which is solved by infix expression algorithm. The interface layout is screen self-adaptation by using an alterable resolution algorithm. The result of the experimental study reveals that the intelligent weighing system is more flexible in self-adaptation of environment than the traditional weighing system.
The Study of Handwriting Character Recognition ( HCR ) and Support Vector Machine ( SVM )

The development of handwriting character recognition (HCR) is an interesting area in pattern recognition. HCR is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input such as digital cameras and other devices. HCR system consists of a number of stages which are preprocessing, feature extraction, classification and followed by the actual recognition. Handwritten can be classified into two components which are on-line and off-line recognition. Off-line recognition is selected as a focus of this paper. Off-line character recognition has been extensively studied over the last few decades and many such commercial systems are available today. Some of its application areas are automatic postal sorting, bank cheque processing, form processing and others. This paper introduces the principle stages of HCR for off-line system and support vector machine (SVM) in the classification process for recognizing a handwritten character.
Contact dermatitis from clindamycin

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Listeria Monocytogenes Persistence in Ready-to-Eat Sausages and in Processing Plants

Listeria monocytogenes is of major concern in the fermented meat products and is able to persist in their processing environments. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the virulence profile and the persistence capacity of L. monocytogenes strains isolated in Sardinian fermented sausages processing plants. Food (ground meat, sausages at the end of acidification and ripening stage) and environmental samples (a total of n. 385), collected from 4 meat processing plants located in Sardinia (Italy), were examined to detect L. monocytogenes presence. All the L. monocytogenes isolates were identified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. A subset of strains was also characterised by multiplex PCR-based serogrouping, using the lmo0737, lmo1118, ORF2819 and ORF2110 genes. Three different multiplex PCRs were used to obtain the virulence profiles by the rrn, hlyA, actA, prfA, inlA, inlB, iap, plcA, plcB and mpl marker genes. Furthermore, in vitro biofilm forming ability and resistance to disinfectants were carried out on microtiter plate. The overall prevalence was 31.5% in food, and 68.5% in environmental samples. The prevalent serotype resulted 1/2c (43%), followed by 1/2a (40%), 4b (8.6%), and 1/2b (8.6%). The amplification products of the virulence genes were found in all the isolates with the following prevalence: 77.1% hlyA; 100% rrn; 100% prfA; 97.1% iap; 65.7% inlB; 88.6% inlA; 100% plcA; 100% plcB and 74.3% mpl. As for biofilm forming ability, 37.1% of the strains were positive and resulted weak producer, but all the isolates were sensible to disinfectants showing a reduction of L. monocytogenes growth after each incubation time. More appropriate technologies and application of measures of hygienic control should be implemented to prevent the L. monocytogenes growth and cross-contamination in salsiccia sarda processing plants.
At least two nuclear gene products are specifically required for translation of a single yeast mitochondrial mRNA.

Mitochondrial translation of the oxi2 mRNA, encoding yeast cytochrome c oxidase subunit III (coxIII), has previously been shown to specifically require the mitochondrially located protein product of the nuclear gene PET494. We show here that this specific translational activation involves at least one other newly identified gene termed PET54. Mutations in PET54 cause an absence of the coxIII protein despite the presence of normal levels of its mRNA. pet494 mutations are known to be suppressible by mitochondrial gene rearrangements that replace the normal 5′‐untranslated leader of the oxi2 mRNA with the leaders of other mitochondrial mRNAs. In this study we show that pet54, pet494 double mutants are suppressed by the same mitochondrial gene rearrangements, showing that the PET54 product is specifically required, in addition to the PET494 protein, for translation of the oxi2 mRNA. Since, as we show here, PET54 is not an activator of PET494 gene expression, our results suggest that the products of both of these genes may act together to stimulate coxIII translation.
Segment Based Decision Tree Induction With Continuous Valued Attributes

A key issue in decision tree (DT) induction with continuous valued attributes is to design an effective strategy for splitting nodes. The traditional approach to solving this problem is adopting the candidate cut point (CCP) with the highest discriminative ability, which is evaluated by some frequency based heuristic measures. However, such methods ignore the class permutation of examples in the node, and they cannot distinguish the CCPs with the same or similar frequency information, thus may fail to induce a better and smaller tree. In this paper, a new concept, i.e., segment of examples, is proposed to differentiate the CCPs with same frequency information. Then, a new hybrid scheme that combines the two heuristic measures, i.e., frequency and segment, is developed for splitting DT nodes. The relationship between frequency and the expected number of segments, which is regarded as a random variable, is also given. Experimental comparisons demonstrate that the proposed scheme is not only effective to improve the generalization capability, but also valid to reduce the size of the tree.
Quantitative Distribution of Cluster 1 Small Cell Lung Cancer Antigen in Cancerous and Non‐cancerous Tissues, Cultured Cells and Sera

Three monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), NCC‐LU‐243, ‐244 and ‐246, detected three different epitopes on a 145‐kDa cell membrane antigen, which had been designated as the cluster 1 antigen at the First International Workshop on Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Antigens. The distribution of the antigen in various tissues, cultured cells and sera was examined by immunohistochemistry and sandwich radioimmunoassay using these mAbs. The antigen is a normal differentiation antigen and is present in nenronal, nenroendocrine and cardiac muscle cells. The level of the antigen was highest in central nervous tissues, while it was undetectable in the liver, kidney and peripheral lung. Among tumor tissues, the antigen was detected only in SCLC, carcinoid tumor and neuroblastoma, indicating its usefulness as a marker for discriminating SCLC from non‐SCLC. The level of the antigen varied among SCLC tissues and tended to be lower in variant‐type cultured SCLC cells. Although an increase in the antigen level was observed in sera of some patients with advanced SCLC, the antigen did not possess any additional value over neuron‐specific enolase as a serum tumor marker for monitoring SCLC patients.
Musical Instrument Recognition using Biologically Inspired Filtering of Temporal Dictionary Atoms

Most musical instrument recognition systems rely entirely upon spectral information instead of temporal information. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that temporal information can improve upon the accuracy achievable by the state of the art in instrument recognition. Unlike existing temporal classification methods which use traditional features such as temporal moments, we extract novel features from temporal atoms generated by nonnegative matrix factorization by using a multiresolution gamma filterbank. Among isolated sounds taken from twenty-four instrument classes, the proposed system can achieve 92.3% accuracy, thus improving upon the state of the art.
The AGL62 MADS Domain Protein Regulates Cellularization during Endosperm Development in Arabidopsis[W]

Endosperm, a storage tissue in the angiosperm seed, provides nutrients to the embryo during seed development and/or to the developing seedling during germination. A major event in endosperm development is the transition between the syncytial phase, during which the endosperm nuclei undergo many rounds of mitosis without cytokinesis, and the cellularized phase, during which cell walls form around the endosperm nuclei. The molecular processes controlling this phase transition are not understood. In agl62 seeds, the endosperm cellularizes prematurely, indicating that AGL62 is required for suppression of cellularization during the syncytial phase. AGL62 encodes a Type I MADS domain protein that likely functions as a transcription factor. During seed development, AGL62 is expressed exclusively in the endosperm. During wild-type endosperm development, AGL62 expression is strong during the syncytial phase and then declines abruptly just before cellularization. By contrast, in mutant seeds containing defects in some FERTILIZATION-INDEPENDENT SEED (FIS) class Polycomb group genes, the endosperm fails to cellularize and AGL62 expression fails to decline. Together, these data suggest that AGL62 suppresses cellularization during the syncytial phase of endosperm development and that endosperm cellularization is triggered via direct or indirect AGL62 inactivation by the FIS polycomb complex.
A Keypoint Descriptor Inspired by Retinal Computation

The main goal of our project is to implement a keypoint descriptor inspired by the human retinal computation. To simulate the human visual system, we use the sampling patterns of Fast Retina Keypoint (FREAK) proposed in [1]. In FREAK, only two fields are used to compute a descriptor. To improve the discriminative power, we employ more than two fields for descriptor computation and carefully select the fields for computation by using the knowledge of the receptive fields of retinal ganglion cells. After we construct descriptors from a large dataset, we train them to reduce the number of features to 53. We show that our descriptor successfully matches and recognizes various objects including the test images provided in the problem set 3.
Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Risk of Adult Leukemia

Background: The role of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) in the causation of lung and breast cancer has been repeatedly evaluated over recent years. In contrast, its impact on the risk of adult leukemia has received little attention. Methods: We used the lifetime residential and occupational ETS exposure histories from a population-based sample of 1068 incident and histologically confirmed adult leukemia cases and 5039 population controls age 20 to 74 years to evaluate the relationship between ETS exposure and adult leukemia risk among nonsmokers in Canada. The duration of exposure and smoker-years index were used as indices of ETS exposure. We restricted our analysis to the 266 case and 1326 control subjects who reported being lifetime nonsmokers and provided residential ETS exposure history for at least 75% of their lifetime. Results: No association was found for most leukemia subtypes, and in particular for acute myeloid leukemia. In contrast, the risk for chronic lymphocytic leukemia was clearly associated with ETS exposure, with an adjusted odds ratio of 2.3 (95% confidence interval = 1.2–4.5) for more than 83 smoker-years of residential exposure and 2.4 (1.3–4.3) for more than 72 smoker-years of occupational exposure. There was a dose–response relationship for chronic lymphocytic leukemia with both indices of exposure. Risk was not higher with recent exposure, using time-window-exposure analyses. Conclusions: Regular long-term ETS exposure may be a risk factor for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Self‐concept and the fashion behavior of women over 50

Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to examine the connection between the self‐concept and fashion consumer behaviors of senior females.Design/methodology/approach – Participants for the study (n=200) were recruited from 12 chapters of the Red Hat Society located in the Southeastern USA; they completed a self‐administered survey. Relational, individual and collective identities were measured via well‐established, pre‐existing scales. Statistical findings were used to examine how senior females with unique identities (i.e. relational, individual, and collective self‐concepts) differ in terms of their shopping behaviors and fashion orientation.Findings – Statistical results from this study indicate that apparel purchase decisions for senior females are complex and involve issues beyond style, fit, and price. Information on how the identity groups differed from one another in the various shopping behaviors and their interest in fashion is identified.Research limitations/implications – This study pr.
SUPERFAMILY 1.75 including a domain-centric gene ontology method

The SUPERFAMILY resource provides protein domain assignments at the structural classification of protein (SCOP) superfamily level for over 1400 completely sequenced genomes, over 120 metagenomes and other gene collections such as UniProt. All models and assignments are available to browse and download at http://supfam.org. A new hidden Markov model library based on SCOP 1.75 has been created and a previously ignored class of SCOP, coiled coils, is now included. Our scoring component now uses HMMER3, which is in orders of magnitude faster and produces superior results. A cloud-based pipeline was implemented and is publicly available at Amazon web services elastic computer cloud. The SUPERFAMILY reference tree of life has been improved allowing the user to highlight a chosen superfamily, family or domain architecture on the tree of life. The most significant advance in SUPERFAMILY is that now it contains a domain-based gene ontology (GO) at the superfamily and family levels. A new methodology was developed to ensure a high quality GO annotation. The new methodology is general purpose and has been used to produce domain-based phenotypic ontologies in addition to GO.
In situ forming implants for the delivery of metronidazole to periodontal pockets: formulation and drug release studies

Abstract This study was performed to obtain prolonged drug release with biodegradable in situ forming implants for the local delivery of metronidazole to periodontal pockets. The effect of polymer type (capped and uncapped PLGA), solvent type (water-miscible and water-immiscible) and the polymer/drug ratio on in vitro drug release studies were investigated. In situ implants with sustained metronidazole release and low initial burst consisted of capped PLGA and N-methyl-2-pyrolidone as solvent. Mucoadhesive polymers were incorporated into the in situ implants in order to modify the properties of the delivery systems towards longer residence times in vivo. Addition of the polymers changed the adhesiveness and increased the viscosity and drug release of the formulations. However, sustained drug release over 10 days was achievable. Biodegradable in situ forming implants are therefore an attractive delivery system to achieve prolonged release of metronidazole at periodontal therapy.
IEEE 802.1AS time synchronization in a switched Ethernet based in-car network

As of today Ethernet is used in the in-vehicle network mainly for two use cases: connectivity between the head unit and the rear seat entertainment (RSE) as well as faster onboard diagnostics (OBD). With the increasing bandwidth demand in driver assistance and the wish to easier interconnect the driver assistance and infotainment domains additional usage of Ethernet in the vehicle is being examined. The legacy Ethernet does only provide very limited Quality-of-Service (QoS) mechanisms so that demanding real-time in-vehicle applications cannot meet their constraints. The Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) group introduced several IEEE standards to allow audio and video applications with high QoS demands in a switched Ethernet network. Although these mechanisms were not designed for automotive use cases, they are good extensions to switched Ethernet when QoS demands exist. Therefore, an evaluation of AVB for the usage in in-vehicle networks is needed. In this work, we focus on a base mechanism of the IEEE 802.1 AVB standard, the IEEE 802.1AS time synchronization protocol and its usage in the in-vehicle network. The evaluation is performed by simulation with the network simulation tool OMNeT++ and we modifed the INET-framework with the IEEE 802.1AS capability for our purpose.
Agency in a Changing Educational Context: Negotiations, Collective Actions and Resistance

The celebration of individual agency, which is closely connected to the promotion of the knowledge economy, competition and performance, is obvious in contemporary European education and youth policy, at national and supranational levels. Schools and teachers are thus expected to be crucial agents in fostering the development of flexible, responsible, self-governing and entrepreneurial citizens by adopting personalised pedagogies and continuous and close evaluation (Hartley, 2009). For example, the project Education Governance, Social Integration and Exclusion in Europe (EGSIE), which included studies from several European countries, revealed considerable consensus among teachers, principals and decision-makers on what constitutes a good student, a good teacher or a good head teacher, clearly reflecting such ideas about agency (Lindblad et al, 2002; Lindblad & Popkewitz, 2004). Consequently, structural and institutional power relations (Arnesen & Lundahl, forthcoming 2010) are downplayed and expressions of individual agency in terms of collective action and resistance are rendered more or less invisible. Furthermore, the emphasis on learning combined with high achievement and control may lead to more children and young people being marginalised and left with less room for agency, resulting in teachers’ attempts to promote socio-emotional development and fostering democratic citizenship being toned down. Such findings, however, make it no less essential to map and analyse new forms of influence and action, new freedoms and controls, individual as well as collective, resulting from or being in conflict with emerging power configurations This special issue highlights the subject of agency in Nordic educational institutions during the early 2000s, with respect to acting on, negotiating, opposing, transgressing and resisting, as well as examining the options for participation by various actors. It is suggested that altered relationships and increased tensions between individual ‘freedom’ (cf. Rose, 1999) and institutional control, as well as conflicting policies and values, bring about particular power dynamics, through which different actors within institutions may gain more or less influence. We also inquire into disruptions or actions that go against the grain. Whilst studies focusing on resistance often regard teachers and students as conflicting groups (see McFadden, 1995), our aim is also to search for alliances that might involve various constellations of students, teachers, and other actors. We look for contradictions in critical manifestations, since the position of being critical and in opposition is more open for some actors, e.g. middle-class boys and male teachers with permanent posts, than
3D Path planning using a fuzzy logic navigational map for Planetary Surface Rovers

This work proposes an innovative app navigation path-planning problem exploration rovers by including terrain characteristics. The objective is to enhance the typical 2D arithmetical cost function by adding 3D information computed from the laser-scanned terrain such as terrain height, slopes, shadows, orientation and terrain roughness. This paper describes the algorithm developed by UPM and GMV and the tests made at the GMV outdoor test facilities using the Moon-Hound rover. This rover is a 50 Kg rover including a Sick laser mounted on a pan&tilt unit for generation of 3D Digital Elevation Models (DEM’s). Experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed approach.