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Being on the Map: The New Iconographies of Power over European Space (2003)

This paper explores the representation of European space in images, and the significance of these images in building and reproducing policy discourses of European space. Landmark and less well-known images of European spatial relations are discussed, from representations of trans-European infrastructure networks to the iconic 'bananas' and 'grapes', and through to the new science of infographics, which explicitly attempts to articulate new European spatial concepts such as polycentricity in image form. Images are understood as elements of an emerging transnational spatial policy discourse, and so are analysed in the context of contestation over meanings, played out in policy debates, in documentation and in other practices of spatial planning. In particular, we concentrate on how images are used together with textual references and discussions to form a persuasive component of spatial discourse. We therefore analyse these representations of space as contested, rather than as the outputs of rational spatial analysis. The aim is to reveal the underlying rationales of different framings of space and spatial relations, leading to insights into the ways in which such images are playing an increasingly important role in foregrounding certain ways of thinking about European space and mobility whilst bracketing others. Our analysis suggests that whilst iconic representations of European space articulate an apparently unified view of European development, they also embody major unresolved tensions at the heart of the spatial development strategy, in particular between competing configurations of urban and regional development and mobility. Depending on their interpretation, the images can be seen as capturing the tensions between flows and places, and between underlying rationalities of cohesion and competition. Overall, the paper argues that whilst the use of images in EU spatial policy discourse succeeds in strongly visioning a polycentric Europe of flows, it also (perhaps unintentionally) reproduces the uncertainties, conflicts and tensions which surround this vision. The paper concludes with a discussion of how such use of images can contribute to the formation of a European identity.
Vector Space Of The Extended Base-Triplets Over The Galois Field Of Five Dna Bases Alphabet (2007)

A plausible architecture of an ancient genetic code is derived from an extended base triplet vector space over the Galois field of the extended base alphabet {D, G, A, U, C}, where the letter D represent one or more hypothetical bases with unspecific pairing. We hypothesized that the high degeneration of a primeval genetic code with five bases and the gradual origin and improvements of a primitive DNA repair system could make possible the transition from the ancient to the modern genetic code. Our results suggest that the Watson-Crick base pairing and the non-specific base pairing of the hypothetical ancestral base D used to define the sum and product operations are enough features to determine the coding constraints of the primeval and the modern genetic code, as well as the transition from the former to the later. Geometrical and algebraic properties of this vector space reveal that the present codon assignment of the standard genetic code could be induced from a primeval codon assignment. Besides, the Fourier spectrum of the extended DNA genome sequences derived from the multiple sequence alignment suggests that the called period-3 property of the present coding DNA sequences could also exist in the ancient coding DNA sequences.
Video Summarization by an Innovative Method in Shot Detection (2015)

The aim of a video summarization system is to provide a set of key frames which contain the most important parts of video. This method results in efficient storage, quick browsing, and retrieval of video collection. In this paper, we propose a new summarization system which firstly divides the video into meaningful shots using an innovative and fast method, and then we sample the video frames of each shot. This results in 97% reduction in under-process video frames. Then, using various characteristics of sampled frames such as color histogram, correlation and moment of inertia, we propose an adaptive aggregation function for combination of these characteristics (differences) and extraction of key frames. The proposed system is evaluated using 250 manual key frames constructed by human operators from 50 downloaded videos. The obtained results show that the proposed system provides better results compared to 6 different traditional methods.
Patient Medication Adherence: Measures in Daily Practice (2011)

Adherence to therapies is a primary determinant of treatment success. Failure to adherence is a serious problem which not only affects the patient but also the health care system. Medication non adherence in patients leads to substantial worsening of disease, death and increased health care costs. A variety of factors are likely to affect adherence. Barriers to adherence could be addressed as patient, provider and health system factors, with interactions among them. Identifying specific barriers for each patient and adopting suitable techniques to overcome them will be necessary to improve medication adherence. Health care professionals such as physicians, pharmacists and nurses have significant role in their daily practice to improve patient medication adherence.
Three-dimensional image processing VLSI system with network-on-chip system and reconfigurable memory architecture (2011)

In this paper, we propose new RAM/ROM module system with reconfigurable memory architecture for three-dimensional (3D) image processing VLSI system. To enable flexible image data processing, suitable input/output data control is critical feature for high performance image processing system. The fast speed 3D VLSI system also requires efficient pipeline data operation. New RAM/ROM synthesis design system is realized by specific arrangement with RAM, ROM, pin and interconnection. The pipeline Flip- Flop control, clock buffer insertion and critical signal route have been improved to enhance whole system operation speed. The network-on-chip system is also proposed to enable fast signal transmission and correct control operation. The 3D image processing VLSI system can also be improved by suitable data storage and pipeline control flow. The chip simulation experiments show the accurate results with 247.728mW power consumption and 50MHz processing frequency. Practical chip test conclusion confirms that new RAM/ROM synthesis design can successfully realize innerchip write/read function and efficient data flow control to improve 3D reconfigurable system efficiency. Better image VLSI system can be realized by elaborate network-on-chip system and precise 3D stacking layer design.
Pour un atlas social et culturel du Mozambique (2002)

Pour un atlas social et culturel du Mozambique Depuis que le Mozambique est independant, deux recensements ont ete organises : en 1980 et en 1997, avec un vide de dix-sept ans du a la guerre civile qui a ravage le pays. Il etait donc tres interessant de traiter les dernieres donnees, et de les « visualiser ». Sur la base du CD- om publie en 1999 par l'Instituto nacional de estatistica (INE) du Mozambique, ont donc ete cartographiees des donnees demographiques (population; densite; masculinite; mortalite infantile; esperance de vie), sociales et sanitaires (handicaps; ravitaillement en eau; electricite; toilettes), culturelles (analphabetisme; cinq langues bantoues: emakhuwa, xichangana, elomwe, echuwabo, cisena; la langue officielle: portugais) et religieuses (catholicisme; islam; protestantisme evangelique; zionisme). Ces donnees ont ete completees par celle du site web de l'INE. Mais, naturellement, la cartographie est dependante de la qualite des releves stastistiques, qui subit les interferences de difficultes materielles, mais aussi politiques et ideologiques. C'est pourquoi la representation cartographique doit etre a son tour soigneusement analvsee et soumise a la critique.
Semantic Segmentation with Object Clique Potential (2015)

We propose an object clique potential for semantic segmentation. Our object clique potential addresses the misclassified object-part issues arising in solutions based on fully-convolutional networks. Our object clique set, compared to that yielded from segment-proposal-based approaches, is with a significantly smaller size, making our method consume notably less computation. Regarding system design and model formation, our object clique potential can be regarded as a functional complement to local-appearance-based CRF models and works in synergy with these effective approaches for further performance improvement. Extensive experiments verify our method.
Controlling overlap in content-oriented XML retrieval (2005)

The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dominated by a large number of elements taken from a small number of highly relevant documents. This paper presents and evaluates an algorithm that re-ranks this result set, with the aim of minimizing redundant content while preserving the benefits of element retrieval, including the benefit of identifying topic-focused components contained within relevant documents. The test collection developed by the INitiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) forms the basis for the evaluation.
Direct access storage device (DASD) modeling and validation (2003)

In a distributed environment where data are distributed and stored in individual DASDs, the performance of each of these DASD subsystems is critical to overall system performance. Hence, in order to size the DASD subsystems within a distributed environment appropriately, a flexible and robust planning tool is needed. A planning tool in the form of a robust simulation-based model is proposed for the performance evaluation of noncached and cached DASD subsystems. It is validated with performance data obtained from a real-world environment. This planning tool is part of an ongoing research project in the development of a four-level distributed information system simulator.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
TiSEFE: Time Series Evolving Fuzzy Engine for Network Traffic Classification (2022)

Monitoring and analyzing network traffic are very crucial in discriminating the malicious attack. As the network traffic is becoming big, heterogeneous, and very fast, traffic analysis could be considered as big data analytic task. Recent research in big data analytic filed has produces several novel large-scale data processing systems. However, there is a need for a comprehensive data processing system to extract valuable insights from network traffic big data and learn the normal and attack network situations. This paper proposes a novel evolving fuzzy system to discriminate anomalies by inspecting the network traffic. After capturing traffic data, the system analyzes it to establish a model of normal network situation. The normal situation is a time series data of an ordered sequence of traffic information variable values at equally spaced time intervals. The performance has been analyzed by carrying out several experiments on real-world traffic dataset and under extreme difficult situation of high-speed networks. The results have proved the appropriateness of time series evolving fuzzy engine for network classification.
Molecular Analysis of <i>Vibrio cholerae</i> O1, O139, non-O1, and non-O139 Strains: Clonal Relationships between Clinical and Environmental Isolates (2001)

A total of 26 strains of Vibrio cholerae, including members of the O1, O139, and non-O1, non-O139 serogroups from both clinical and environmental sources, were examined for the presence of genes encoding cholera toxin (ctxA), zonula occludens toxin (zot), accessory cholera enterotoxin (ace), hemolysin (hlyA), NAG-specific heat-stable toxin (st), toxin-coregulated pilus (tcpA), and outer membrane protein (ompU), for genomic organization, and for the presence of the regulatory protein genes tcpI and toxR in order to determine relationships between epidemic serotypes and sources of isolation. While 22 of the 26 strains were hemolytic on 5% sheep blood nutrient agar, all strains were PCR positive for hlyA, the hemolysin gene. When multiplex PCR was used, all serogroup O1 and O139 strains were positive for tcpA, ompU, and tcpI. All O1 and O139 strains except one O1 strain and one O139 strain were positive for the ctxA, zot, and ace genes. Also, O1 strain VO3 was negative for the zot gene. All of the non-O1, non-O139 strains were negative for the ctxA, zot, ace, tcpA, and tcpI genes, and all of the non-O1, non-O139 strains except strain VO26 were negative for ompU. All of the strains except non-O1, non-O139 strain VO22 were PCR positive for the gene encoding the central regulatory protein, toxR. All V. cholerae strains were negative for the NAG-specific st gene. Of the nine non-ctx-producing strains of V. cholerae, only one, non-O1, non-O139 strain VO24, caused fluid accumulation in the rabbit ileal loop assay. The other eight strains, including an O1 strain, an O139 strain, and six non-O1, non-O139 strains, regardless of the source of isolation, caused fluid accumulation after two to five serial passages through the rabbit gut. Culture filtrates of all non-cholera-toxigenic strains grown in AKI media also caused fluid accumulation, suggesting that a new toxin was produced in AKI medium by these strains. Studies of clonality performed by using enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence PCR, Box element PCR, amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP), and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) collectively indicated that the V. cholerae O1 and O139 strains had a clonal origin, whereas the non-O1, non-O139 strains belonged to different clones. The clinical isolates closely resembled environmental isolates in their genomic patterns. Overall, there was an excellent correlation among the results of the PCR, AFLP, and PFGE analyses, and individual strains derived from clinical and environmental sources produced similar fingerprint patterns. From the results of this study, we concluded that the non-cholera-toxin-producing strains of V. cholerae, whether of clinical or environmental origin, possess the ability to produce a new secretogenic toxin that is entirely different from the toxin produced by toxigenic V. cholerae O1 and O139 strains. We also concluded that the aquatic environment is a reservoir for V. cholerae O1, O139, non-O1, and non-O139 serogroup strains.
Cost-estimation by analogy as a good management practice (1988)

It is widely-believed that software-development projects are almost always late. Good estimation techniques can help by providing an incentive to improve working practices, such as increasing the consistency of the development process. The authors give a summary of estimation methods, a model of the estimation process and a meta-model for estimation by analogy. They discuss future work and automation of the models. They believe that the analogy meta-model, used in the manner described by the estimation process model, will improve the standard of project management. >
Clinical Value of Serum HMGB1 Levels in Early Detection of Recurrent Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Uterine Cervix: Comparison with Serum SCCA, CYFRA21-1, and CEA Levels (2009)

HMGB1 was overexpressed in recurrent CSCCs. Serum HMGB1 level could be a useful and specific marker for evaluating the disease recurrence and predicting prognosis in patients with CSCC. Serial combined measurements of serum HMGB1, SCCA, and CYFRA21-1 increased the diagnostic specificity, and parallel combined testing increased the diagnostic sensitivity.
[Effects of aliphatic alcohols on slow action potential of guinea-pig papillary muscle]. (1989)

Effects of ethanol, butanol, hexanol and octanol on slow action potential (APA, APD50, Vmax, and V'max) and its correspondent ICa (Imax) and Ik (I'max) of guinea-pig papillary muscle were measured and analysed by using phase-plane method. The results showed that all of four alcohols inhibited calcium current of cardiac membranes, but the action on potassium current changed from enhancement (ethanol) to impairment (hexanol and octanol) with the increase in carbon number of alcohols. Furthermore, the longer the chains of alcohols, the less the concentration needed to produce these effects. This phenomenon suggests a possible correlation between the actions of aliphatic alcohols and their hydrophobic properties.
Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: Enter Fidaxomicin (2011)

Recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is common, whether metronidazole or vancomycin is used as initial therapy. Fidaxomicin, a new macrocyclic antibiotic that has no cross-resistance with other antibiotics, is more active in vitro than vancomycin against clinical C. difficile isolates; in a phase II trial, it was associated with good clinical response and …
Shimba—an environment for reverse engineering Java software systems (2001)

Abstract Shimba is a reverse engineering environment to support the understanding of Java software systems. Shimba integrates the Rigi and SCED tools to analyze and visualize the static and dynamic aspects of a subject system. The static software artifacts and their dependencies are extracted from Java byte code and viewed as directed graphs using the Rigi reverse engineering environment. The run‐time information is generated by running the target software under a customized SDK debugger. The generated information is viewed as sequence diagrams using the SCED tool. In SCED, statechart diagrams can be synthesized automatically from sequence diagrams, allowing the user to investigate the overall run‐time behavior of objects in the target system. Shimba provides facilities to manage the different diagrams and to trace artifacts and relations across views. In Shimba, SCED sequence diagrams are used to slice the static dependency graphs produced by Rigi. In turn, Rigi graphs are used to guide the generation of SCED sequence diagrams and to raise their level of abstraction. We show how the information exchange among the views enables goal‐driven reverse engineering tasks and aids the overall understanding of the target software system. The FUJABA software system serves as a case study to illustrate and validate the Shimba reverse engineering environment. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Laboratory evaluation of the A.R.T. bonding system. (1994)

Mean +/- SD of the shear bond strength in MPa were 13.07 +/- 3.59 (1 minute), 16.08 +/- 3.12 (15 minutes), 18.17 +/- 3.44 (24 hours), 17.54 +/- 5.35 (1 week), 17.90 +/- 2.61 (4 weeks). The mean +/- SD microleakage was 0.008 +/- 0.04 mg dye/restoration.
Bitcoin and Cybersecurity: Temporal Dissection of Blockchain Data to Unveil Changes in Entity Behavioral Patterns (2019)

The Bitcoin network not only is vulnerable to cyber-attacks but currently represents the most frequently used cryptocurrency for concealing illicit activities. Typically, Bitcoin activity is monitored by decreasing anonymity of its entities using machine learning-based techniques, which consider the whole blockchain. This entails two issues: first, it increases the complexity of the analysis requiring higher efforts and, second, it may hide network micro-dynamics important for detecting short-term changes in entity behavioral patterns. The aim of this paper is to address both issues by performing a “temporal dissection” of the Bitcoin blockchain, i.e., dividing it into smaller temporal batches to achieve entity classification. The idea is that a machine learning model trained on a certain time-interval (batch) should achieve good classification performance when tested on another batch if entity behavioral patterns are similar. We apply cascading machine learning principles—a type of ensemble learning applying stacking techniques—introducing a “k-fold cross-testing” concept across batches of varying size. Results show that blockchain batch size used for entity classification could be reduced for certain classes (Exchange, Gambling, and eWallet) as classification rates did not vary significantly with batch size; suggesting that behavioral patterns did not change significantly over time. Mixer and Market class detection, however, can be negatively affected. A deeper analysis of Mining Pool behavior showed that models trained on recent data perform better than models trained on older data, suggesting that “typical” Mining Pool behavior may be represented better by recent data. This work provides a first step towards uncovering entity behavioral changes via temporal dissection of blockchain data.
Intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition drives liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in mice and humans (2019)

Platelets play a pivotal role in stimulating liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in rodents and humans. Liver regeneration in rodents is delayed when platelets are inhibited. However, the exact mechanisms whereby platelets accumulate and promote liver regeneration remain uncertain. Thrombin-dependent intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition was recently reported after partial hepatectomy (PHx) in mice, but the role of fibrin(ogen) deposits in liver regeneration has not been investigated. We tested the hypothesis that fibrin(ogen) contributes to liver regeneration by promoting intrahepatic platelet accumulation and identified the trigger of rapid intrahepatic coagulation after PHx. PHx in wild-type mice triggered rapid intrahepatic coagulation, evidenced by intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition. Intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition was abolished in mice with liver-specific tissue factor deficiency, pinpointing the trigger of coagulation after PHx. Direct thrombin activation of platelets through protease-activated receptor-4 did not contribute to hepatocyte proliferation after PHx, indicating that thrombin contributes to liver regeneration primarily by driving intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition. Fibrinogen depletion with ancrod reduced both intrahepatic platelet accumulation and hepatocyte proliferation after PHx, indicating that fibrin(ogen) contributes to liver regeneration after PHx by promoting intrahepatic platelet accumulation. Consistent with the protective function of fibrin(ogen) in mice, low postoperative plasma fibrinogen levels were associated with liver dysfunction and mortality in patients undergoing liver resection. Moreover, increased intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition was evident in livers of patients after liver resection but was remarkably absent in patients displaying hepatic dysfunction postresection. The results suggest a novel mechanism whereby coagulation-dependent intrahepatic fibrin(ogen) deposition drives platelet accumulation and liver regeneration after PHx.