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International Conference on Intelligent and Advanced Systems 2007 Mining Moving Object Attributes Based on Pixel Location for Fixed Camera

– This paper presents the concept of extracting information from a moving object using a fixed camera in an enclosed environment in order to extract some of the image attributes. The work relies on tracking a single object in an indoor environments and the knowledge extraction of a particular object is based on three preset measurement tools. The first tool is pixel location retrieval by calculating the center of mass for the object of interest. Second attribute extraction is based on the time spend by object of interest in each frame and in each predefined zones. Finally the third measurement approach is achieved by calculating the pixel frequency distribution of the object. This work form a precursor to identifying intruder (or any interested moving object) based on pixel activity using fixed angle view video images. I INTRODUCTION Generally we classify the streaming of fixed image archived (or continuously stored) on a particular lively object movement from a fixed view video camera into two main categories. The first deals or involve with object detection and tracking methods in which the ability of object extraction and event detection can be performed later. The second method (after considering the first) attended to describing interesting patterns of data by using knowledge extraction methods [1]. In this paper a combination of tracking and knowledge extraction from a streaming of video of images is being on a fixed view angle. In this case study a ball hanged by string and swung freely in the space is adopted as an experiment. The main idea of this study is to extract pixel coverage of a particular object, time domain (where time parameter is considered as per pixel location) and finally the frequency distribution of pixels of on the region where changes are detected. By extracting both the object movement attributes and time attributes this work shows that one can be clearly see and conclude the overall object behavior. Fig. 1 describes the work process in brief. The paper is organized as follows where the next section talks about the object detection. Section III explains on extracting the object location and trajectories. Section VI presents zones defining and time calculations. Section V discusses the pixel frequency distribution. The conclusion comes after that and talks about the future direction for this work. II OBJECT DETECTION The work carried out in the research work focusing on detecting single object in indoors …
Spatiotemporal Search Spatiotemporal Search

Despite evidence that consumers search across both stores (spatial) and time (temporal), the search literature models search in only one dimension. We develop a model of spatiotemporal search that nests a finite horizon model of spatial search within an infinite horizon model of intertemporal search. The model is estimated using an iterative procedure that formulates it as a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) embedded within an E-M algorithm to allow for latent class heterogeneity. The empirical analysis is based on data on household store visits and purchases in the milk category. In contrast to extant research, we find that omitting the temporal dimension underestimates price elasticity. We attribute this difference to the importance of stockouts relative to stockpiling in the milk category. Further, contrary to the conventional wisdom that promotions reduce loyalty, we find that in the presence of search frictions, price promotions can be a store loyalty-enhancing tool.
Automatic annotation of speculation in biomedical texts: new perspectives and large-scale evaluation

One emergent field in text mining tools applied to biological texts is the automatic detection of speculative sentences. In this paper, we test on a large scale BioExcom, a rule-based system which annotates and categorizes automatically speculative sentences ("prior" and "new"). This work enables us to highlight a more restrictive way to consider speculations, viewed as a source of knowledge, and to discuss the criteria used to determine if a sentence is speculative or not. By doing so, we demonstrate the efficiency of BioExcom to extract these types of speculations and we argue the importance of this tool for biologists, who are also interested in finding hypotheses.
A Fist on the Cover: Some Remarks on Visual Sources in Sports History

»Eine Faust auf dem Titel. Einige Bemerkungen zu visuellen Quellen in der Sportgeschichte«. Visual sources are extremely important for the understanding of the development of modern sports. Images in magazines, newspapers, books, collecting cards, and all the paraphernalia pertaining to sports shape the collective notion of what sports means and which values are connected with it. This article about a specific image which made a cover of the leading French sports magazine La Vie au Grand Air in 1908 explores the possibilities of historical analyses of media coverage in sports including images. The content of an image, its immediate and wider context including iconographic traditions and conventions and how they work together are taken into consideration. The special character of photographs in the media makes them pivotal for the contemporary promotion of sports and the specific way to imagine concepts of a modern body around 1900 and beyond as an outdoor activity and way of life.
HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL PREFIX ADDERS WITH FAST CARRY CHAIN LOGIC

Binary adders are the basic and vital element in the circuit designs. Prefix adders are the most efficient binary adders for ASIC implementation. But these advantages are not suitable for FPGA implementation because of CLBs and routing constraints on FPGA. This paper presents different types of parallel prefix adders and compares them with the Simple Adder. The adders are designed using Verilog HDL code and simulated and synthesized using Xilinx ISE13.2 software tool and Cadence RTL compiler. Among all the adders, Kogge-Stone adder provides better performance in ASIC implementation but it is not suitable for FPGA implementation. In order to make it suitable for FPGA implementation, Kogge-Stone adder is modified using fast carry logic technique. The modified adder provides better performance over the Simple adder for the higher order bit widths.
Conventional and Unconventional Votes: A Tale of Three Monetary Policy Committees

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, short-term interest rates in a number of major economies reached the effective zero-lower bound (ZLB), joining Japan, which has experienced prolonged deflation and virtually zero interest-rates since 1998. In such a low policy interest-rate environment, members of monetary policy committees no longer vote solely on the level of the policy-rate, but measures which are commonly described as being `unconventional'. Focussing on the experience of the United States FOMC, the Bank of Japan's Policy Board, and the Bank of England's MPC, the drivers of dissent voting behavior under conventional and unconventional monetary policy regimes are modeled. Among our findings, we show that relative to conventional policy regimes, committee members voting in unconventional regimes who are (i) directly appointed by the government, and (ii) appointed in periods during which left-wing governments are in power, are more likely to dissent on the side of monetary ease. Put another way, the decision to dissent is partially governed by whether the monetary policy regime is a conventional or an unconventional one.
Martienssen ) DDM 1 ( Decrease in DNA Methylation chromatin-remodeling gene are regulated by the A . thaliana transposons in Mutator

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FHWA-ICT-07-007 A report of the findings of IHR / ICT R 39 Extended Life HMA Pavements

The fatigue characteristics of an HMA mixture are an integral element of the structural design of a pavement containing asphalt concrete. There are a number of models that have been developed to express the fatigue behavior of an HMA as a function of mixture composition. These models are presented and the shortcomings are discussed relative to the IDOT tensile strain model of the form K1(1/ε) K2. Two sets of IDOT mixtures were investigated for this study: • The first was a general, pre-Superpave selection of IDOT mixtures. • The second was a set from the Extended Life Hot Mix Asphalt Pavement ELHMAP project, representing Superpave mixtures and rich bottom binder (RBB) mixtures. The fatigue model coefficients of these tests are examined and suggestions relative to acceptable coefficients for IDOT use are made, specifically: • K2 = 3.5 to include all mixtures tested. • K2 = 4.0 to include nearly ninety percent of mixtures tested. • K2 = 4.5 for the average value of mixtures tested. The test results clearly indicate the interrelationship between K1 and K2 that must be observed to avoid significant errors in fatigue life prediction given that all models in current use have a constant K2 regardless of the K1 value calculated from mixture variables. The testing also examined the Fatigue Endurance Limit (FEL) of these two data sets which shows that binder type may influence the limit, but in no cases was a strain below 70 micro-strain required to get an extraordinarily long fatigue life. The effect of the RBB mixtures on fatigue resistance was positive but marginal.
Examining the effect of task on viewing behavior in videos using saliency maps

Research has shown that when viewing still images, people will look at these images in a different manner if instructed to evaluate their quality. They will tend to focus less on the main features of the image and, instead, scan the entire image area looking for clues for its level of quality. It is questionable, however, whether this finding can be extended to videos considering their dynamic nature. One can argue that when watching a video the viewer will always focus on the dynamically changing features of the video regardless of the given task. To test whether this is true, an experiment was conducted where half of the participants viewed videos with the task of quality evaluation while the other half were simply told to watch the videos as if they were watching a movie on TV or a video downloaded from the internet. The videos contained content which was degraded with compression artifacts over a wide range of quality. An eye tracking device was used to record the viewing behavior in both conditions. By comparing the behavior during each task, it was possible to observe a systematic difference in the viewing behavior which seemed to correlate to the quality of the videos.
The Role of Facial Expression in Intra-individual and Inter-individual Emotion Regulation

This article describes the role and functions of facial expressions in human-human and human-computer interactions from a psychological point of view. We introduce our theoretical framework, which is based on componential appraisal theory and describe the methodological and theoretical challenges to studying the role of facial expression in intra-individual and interindividual emotion regulation. This is illustrated by some results of empirical studies. Finally we discuss the potential significance of componential appraisal theory for diagnosing and treating affect disturbances and sketch possible implications for emotion synthesis and affective user modeling.
The Relationship between Work Decisions and Location Later in Life

To what extent does continued work later in life in the form of bridge job employment impact the relocation decisions of older Americans? Continued work later in life has been suggested as a way for older workers to help maintain their standard of living in retirement, by increasing income in the near term and simultaneously delaying the date at which assets are drawn down. While the financial benefit of continued work is straightforward and potentially large, the ripple effects of continued work can impact the lives of older Americans in many other ways. This paper focuses on relocation decisions following career employment. We use the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), an ongoing nationally-representative longitudinal survey of older Americans that began in 1992, to explore the frequency and determinants of relocations among career workers who moved to a bridge job relative to those who exited from the labor force directly. For both groups we find that long-distance relocations following career employment were infrequent, as less than one in twenty career workers moved to a new Census Division. Moves that involved a change in “area” or change in residence, however, were much more common, with a frequency at the time of transition from career employment of 9 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Most importantly, the frequency of moves was similar for those who took bridge jobs and those who exited directly, as were key determinants of moves, suggesting that continued work does not significantly limit or promote relocations.
Shaping aspirations : Insights of young farmers life trajectory in Pinrang regency

This research paper is about examining the aspirations of young people who became farmers in particular area – Pinrang regency in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Through conducting semi-structure interview with life history approach combined with participant observations, this research abled to generate the life trajectory of six respondents from different background, age and gender. By looking at life trajectory of six respondents, where the three amongst them are member of a farmers’ community, this research found out that inter-generational contract do contribute on negotiating young farmers’ aspiration, all the more where the family institution appear to be the sole source of welfare for young people. While on the other hand, intra-generational dimension through the locus of a farmers community namely KTSS, helps to enhance their aspirations wherein farming still be taken into account on their future endeavour.
The Genetic Architecture of Parallel Armor Plate Reduction in Threespine Sticklebacks

How many genetic changes control the evolution of new traits in natural populations? Are the same genetic changes seen in cases of parallel evolution? Despite long-standing interest in these questions, they have been difficult to address, particularly in vertebrates. We have analyzed the genetic basis of natural variation in three different aspects of the skeletal armor of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus): the pattern, number, and size of the bony lateral plates. A few chromosomal regions can account for variation in all three aspects of the lateral plates, with one major locus contributing to most of the variation in lateral plate pattern and number. Genetic mapping and allelic complementation experiments show that the same major locus is responsible for the parallel evolution of armor plate reduction in two widely separated populations. These results suggest that a small number of genetic changes can produce major skeletal alterations in natural populations and that the same major locus is used repeatedly when similar traits evolve in different locations.
To improve the GMAP for speckle filtering by consideration of the correlation of SAR images

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are corrupted by speckle noise, which degrades the quality and interpretation. One of the most traditional speckle filters, the Gamma maximum-a-posteriori (GMAP) speckle filter, is based on the first order texture models in SAR images, i.e. the local mean and local variance, without the consideration of the correlation present in the SAR images. To enhance the speckle filtering effects, this work presents an improved GMAP filter based on a new model which is able to take the correlation present in images into account. The final experimental results show that our proposed algorithm can get better performance in terms of the speckle suppression and the fine details preservation.
Iron-Induced Changes in the Proteome of Trichomonas vaginalis Hydrogenosomes

Iron plays a crucial role in metabolism as a key component of catalytic and redox cofactors, such as heme or iron-sulfur clusters in enzymes and electron-transporting or regulatory proteins. Limitation of iron availability by the host is also one of the mechanisms involved in immunity. Pathogens must regulate their protein expression according to the iron concentration in their environment and optimize their metabolic pathways in cases of limitation through the availability of respective cofactors. Trichomonas vaginalis, a sexually transmitted pathogen of humans, requires high iron levels for optimal growth. It is an anaerobe that possesses hydrogenosomes, mitochondrion-related organelles that harbor pathways of energy metabolism and iron-sulfur cluster assembly. We analyzed the proteomes of hydrogenosomes obtained from cells cultivated under iron-rich and iron-deficient conditions employing two-dimensional peptide separation combining IEF and nano-HPLC with quantitative MALDI-MS/MS. We identified 179 proteins, of which 58 were differentially expressed. Iron deficiency led to the upregulation of proteins involved in iron-sulfur cluster assembly and the downregulation of enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism. Interestingly, iron affected the expression of only some of multiple protein paralogues, whereas the expression of others was iron independent. This finding indicates a stringent regulation of differentially expressed multiple gene copies in response to changes in the availability of exogenous iron.
Detection and imaging in strongly backscattering randomly layered media

Echoes from small reflectors buried in the heavy clutter are weak and difficult to distinguish from the medium backscatter. Detection and imaging with sensor arrays in such media require filtering out the unwanted backscatter and enhancing the echoes from the reflectors that we wish to locate. We consider a filtering and detection approach based on the singular value decomposition of the local cosine transform of the array response matrix. The algorithm is general and can be used for detection and imaging in the heavy clutter, but its analysis depends on the model of the cluttered medium. This paper is concerned with the analysis of the algorithm in finely layered random media. We obtain a detailed characterization of the singular values of the transformed array response matrix and justify the systematic approach of the filtering algorithm for detecting and refining the time windows that contain the echoes that are useful in imaging.
Cathepsin D is involved in the regulation of transglutaminase 1 and epidermal differentiation

We previously demonstrated that the aspartate protease cathepsin D is activated by ceramide derived from acid sphingomyelinase. Increased expression of cathepsin D in the skin has been reported in wound healing, psoriasis and skin tumors. We explored specific functions of cathepsin D during epidermal differentiation. Protein expression and enzymatic activity of cathepsin D increased in differentiated keratinocytes in both stratified organotypic cultures and in mouse skin during epidermal barrier repair. Treatment of cultured keratinocytes with exogenous cathepsin D increased the activity of transglutaminase 1, known to cross-link the cornified envelope proteins involucrin and loricrin during epidermal differentiation. Inhibition of cathepsin D by pepstatin A suppressed the activity of transglutaminase 1. Cathepsin D-deficient mice revealed reduced transglutaminase 1 activity and reduced protein levels of the cornified envelope proteins involucrin and loricrin. Also, amount and distribution of cornified envelope proteins involucrin, loricrin, filaggrin, and of the keratins K1 and K5 were significantly altered in cathepsin D-deficient mice. Stratum corneum morphology in cathepsin D-deficient mice was impaired, with increased numbers of corneocyte layers and faint staining of the cornified envelope only, which is similar to the human skin disease lamellar ichthyosis. Our findings suggest a functional link between cathepsin D activation, transglutaminase 1 activity and protein expression of cornified envelope proteins during epidermal differentiation.
Increasing Explicit Sequence Knowledge by Odor Cueing during Sleep in Men but not Women

Sleep consolidates newly acquired memories. Beyond stabilizing memories, sleep is thought to reorganize memory representations such that invariant structures, statistical regularities and even new explicit knowledge are extracted. Whereas increasing evidence suggests that the stabilization of memories during sleep can be facilitated by cueing with learning-associated stimuli, the effect of cueing on memory reorganization is less well understood. Here we asked whether olfactory cueing during sleep enhances the generation of explicit knowledge about an implicitly learned procedural memory task. Subjects were trained on a serial reaction time task (SRTT) containing a hidden 12-element sequence in the presence of an odor. During subsequent sleep, half of the subjects were re-exposed to the odor during periods of slow wave sleep (SWS), while the other half received odorless vehicle. In the next morning, subjects were tested on their explicit knowledge about the underlying sequence in a free recall test and a generation task. Although odor cueing did not significantly affect overall explicit knowledge, differential effects were evident when analyzing male and female subjects separately. Explicit sequence knowledge, both in free recall and the generation task, was enhanced by odor cueing in men, whereas women showed no cueing effect. Procedural skill in the SRTT was not affected by cueing, neither in men nor in women. These findings suggest that olfactory memory reactivation can increase explicit knowledge about implicitly learned information, but only in men. Hormonal differences due to menstrual cycle phase and/or hormonal contraceptives might explain the lacking effect in women.
The marital stability of Cubans in the United States

The effect of migration on marital stability is examined. Data are for Cuban immigrants to the United States and are taken from the Five Percent Public Use National Sample of the 1970 U.S. census. Results indicate the inapplicability of the institutional marriage ideal type in explaining the correlates of marital instability among Cuban immigrants. (ANNOTATION)
CORE: Cross-object redundancy for efficient data repair in storage systems

Erasure codes are an integral part of many distributed storage systems aimed at Big Data, since they provide high fault-tolerance for low overheads. However, traditional erasure codes are inefficient on replenishing lost data (vital for long term resilience) and on reading stored data in degraded environments (when nodes might be unavailable). Consequently, novel codes optimized to cope with distributed storage system nuances are vigorously being researched. In this paper, we take an engineering alternative, exploring the use of simple and mature techniques - juxtaposing a standard erasure code with RAID-4 like parity to realize cross object redundancy (CORE), and integrate it with HDFS. We benchmark the implementation in a proprietary cluster and in EC2. Our experiments show that for an extra 20% storage overhead (compared to traditional erasure codes) CORE yields up to 58% saving in bandwidth and is up to 76% faster while recovering a single failed node. The gains are respectively 16% and 64% for double node failures.