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Retargeting (2006)

Article Retargeting: algorithms for performance-driven animation Share on Authors: J. P. Lewis View Profile , Fred Pighin View Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGGRAPH '06: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 CoursesJuly 2006 Pages 11–eshttps://doi.org/10.1145/1185657.1185851Online:30 July 2006Publication History 1citation35DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads35Last 12 Months11Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
Multimedia is the message (1999)

Multimedia, as an application, has at its very core the field of signal processing technology. In this article, an attempt is made to provide a historical overview of signal processing through the present, followed by a highly personal speculation for the future. As important as the multimedia technology is today, its further dramatic growth is predictable. Technological constraints, such as communication bandwidth, processing components, availability of open standards, and display technologies are being successfully addressed by industry. Signal processing technologies have made important contributions to all areas of multimedia and will continue to do so. Signal processing has been particularly important in all areas of compression, modeling, and the entire field of digital representation of complex signals.
Genetic analysis of clinical mastitis data for Holstein cattle in the Czech Republic (2015)

Abstract. Cases of mastitis were recorded from 22 812 lactations of 10 294 cows on seven farms in the Czech Republic from 2000 to 2012. The per cow number of clinical mastitis (CM) cases per lactation (CM1), number of days of CM per lactation (CM2), and CM considered as an all-or-none trait (CM3) with values of 0 (no CM case) or 1 (at least 1 CM case) were analyzed with linear animal models. Bivariate linear animal models were used for estimation of genetic correlations between CM traits and average lactation somatic cell score (SCS305), average 305-day milk (MY305), fat (FY305) and protein (PY305) yield, and interval between calving and first insemination (INT) and days open (DO). Factors included in the model of choice were parity, herd effect, year of calving, calving season, permanent environmental effect of the cow, and additive genetic effect of the cow. Estimated heritabilities for CM traits were in the range of 0.09 to 0.10. Genetic correlations of SCS305 with CM traits 1, 2, and 3 were 0.22 ± 0.062, 0.23 ± 0.064, and 0.29 ± 0.086, respectively; those of MY305 with the three CM traits were 0.80 ± 0.037, 0.79 ± 0.040, and 0.83 ± 0.038, respectively; those of INT with the three CM traits were 0.19 ± 0.087, 0.17 ± 0.089, and 0.26 ± 0.091, respectively; and those of DO with the three CM traits were 0.28 ± 0.089, 0.22 ± 0.091, and 0.27 ± 0.091, respectively. Knowledge of genetic parameters of mastitis incidence and assessment of the economic importance of the disease is necessary to design breeding programs to improve udder health.
Negative Conductance Caused by Entry of Sodium and Cesium Ions into the Potassium Channels of Squid Axons (1972)

Internal Cs(+), Na(+), Li(+), and, to a lesser degree, Rb(+) interfere with outward current through the K pores in voltage clamped squid axons. Addition of 100 mM NaF to the perfusion medium cuts outward current for large depolarizations about in half, and causes negative conductance over a range of membrane voltages. For example, suddenly reducing membrane potential from +100 to +60 mv increases the magnitude of the outward current. Internal Cs(+) and, to a small extent, Li(+), also cause negative conductance. Na(+) ions permeate at least 17 times less well through the K pores than K(+), and Cs(+) does not permeate measurably. The results strongly suggest that K pores have a wide and not very selective inner mouth, which accepts K(+), Na(+), Li(+), Cs(+), tetraethylammonium ion (TEA(+)), and other ions. The diameter of the mouth must be at least 8 A, which is the diameter of a TEA(+) ion. K(+) ions in the mouths probably have full hydration shells. The remainder of the pore is postulated to be 2.6-3.0 A in diameter, large enough for K(+) and Rb(+) but too small for Cs(+) and TEA(+). We postulate that Na(+) ions do not enter the narrower part of the pore because they are too small to fit well in the coordination cages provided by the pore as replacements for the water molecules surrounding an ion.
Improving recommender systems with adaptive conversational strategies (2009)

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) assist online users in their information-seeking and decision making tasks by supporting an interactive process. Although these processes could be rather diverse, CRSs typically follow a fixed strategy, e.g., based on critiquing or on iterative query reformulation. In a previous paper, we proposed a novel recommendation model that allows conversational systems to autonomously improve a fixed strategy and eventually learn a better one using reinforcement learning techniques. This strategy is optimal for the given model of the interaction and it is adapted to the users’ behaviors. In this paper we validate our approach in an online CRS by means of a user study involving several hundreds of testers. We show that the optimal strategy is different from the fixed one, and supports more effective and efficient interaction sessions.
Comparative Analysis of Bacterial-Origin Genes for Plant Mitochondrial Ribosomal Proteins (2005)

Mitochondrial ribosomes contain bacterial-type proteins reflecting their endosymbiotic heritage, and a subset of these genes is retained within the mitochondrion in land plants. Variation in gene location is observed, however, because migration to the nucleus is still an ongoing evolutionary process in plants. To gain insights into adaptation events related to successful gene transfer, we have compiled data for bacterial-origin mitochondrial-type ribosomal protein genes from the completely sequenced Arabidopsis and rice genomes. Approximately 75% of such nuclear-located genes encode amino-terminal extensions relative to their Escherichia coli counterparts, and of that set, only about 30% have introns at (or near) the junction in support of an exon shuffling-type recruitment of upstream expression/targeting signals. We find that genes that were transferred to the nucleus early in eukaryotic evolution have, on average, about twofold higher density of introns within the core ribosomal protein sequences than do those that moved to the nucleus more recently. About 20% of such introns are at positions identical to those in human orthologs, consistent with their ancestral presence. Plant mitochondrial-type ribosomal protein genes have dispersed chromosomal locations in the nucleus, and about 20% of them are present in multiple unlinked copies. This study provides new insights into the evolutionary history of endosymbiotic bacterial-type genes that have been transferred from the mitochondrion to the nucleus.
Implementation of digital voice communications (1994)

Analogue transmission systems for voice communications within a studio complex have been available for a number of years. In the context of this paper voice communications encompasses studio talkback or intercom. This paper illustrates that with the latest developments in digital communication equipment, the tools now exist which when coupled with the vision of what can be achieved make integrated voice communications a reality.
Text-To-Speech Synthesis In Slovenian Language (1998)

Publication in the conference proceedings of EUSIPCO, Rhodes, Greece, 1998
Density-Preserving Sampling: Robust and Efficient Alternative to Cross-Validation for Error Estimation (2012)

Estimation of the generalization ability of a classification or regression model is an important issue, as it indicates the expected performance on previously unseen data and is also used for model selection. Currently used generalization error estimation procedures, such as cross-validation (CV) or bootstrap, are stochastic and, thus, require multiple repetitions in order to produce reliable results, which can be computationally expensive, if not prohibitive. The correntropy-inspired density-preserving sampling (DPS) procedure proposed in this paper eliminates the need for repeating the error estimation procedure by dividing the available data into subsets that are guaranteed to be representative of the input dataset. This allows the production of low-variance error estimates with an accuracy comparable to 10 times repeated CV at a fraction of the computations required by CV. This method can also be used for model ranking and selection. This paper derives the DPS procedure and investigates its usability and performance using a set of public benchmark datasets and standard classifiers.
Selective single blastocyst transfer reduces the multiple pregnancy rate and increases pregnancy rates: a pre‐ and postintervention study (2008)

Selective SBT in women with good prognosis can reduce the MPR after IVF while maintaining the overall success rate of the IVF programme.
Core Glycosylation of Collagen Is Initiated by Two β(1-<i>O</i>)Galactosyltransferases (2008)

Collagen is a trimer of three left-handed alpha chains representing repeats of the motif Gly-X-Y, where (hydroxy)proline and (hydroxy)lysine residues are often found at positions X and Y. Selected hydroxylysines are further modified by the addition of galactose and glucose-galactose units. Collagen glycosylation takes place in the endoplasmic reticulum before triple-helix formation and is mediated by beta(1-O)galactosyl- and alpha(1-2)glucosyltransferase enzymes. We have identified two collagen galactosyltransferases using affinity chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry protein sequencing. The two collagen beta(1-O)galactosyltransferases corresponded to the GLT25D1 and GLT25D2 proteins. Recombinant GLT25D1 and GLT25D2 enzymes showed a strong galactosyltransferase activity toward various types of collagen and toward the serum mannose-binding lectin MBL, which contains a collagen domain. Amino acid analysis of the products of GLT25D1 and GLT25D2 reactions confirmed the transfer of galactose to hydroxylysine residues. The GLT25D1 gene is constitutively expressed in human tissues, whereas the GLT25D2 gene is expressed only at low levels in the nervous system. The GLT25D1 and GLT25D2 enzymes are similar to CEECAM1, to which we could not attribute any collagen galactosyltransferase activity. The GLT25D1 and GLT25D2 genes now allow addressing of the biological significance of collagen glycosylation and the importance of this posttranslational modification in the etiology of connective tissue disorders.
Auditory Brainstem Timing Predicts Cerebral Asymmetry for Speech (2006)

The left hemisphere of the human cerebral cortex is dominant for processing rapid acoustic stimuli, including speech, and this specialized activity is preceded by processing in the auditory brainstem. It is not known to what extent the integrity of brainstem encoding of speech impacts patterns of asymmetry at cortex. Here, we demonstrate that the precision of temporal encoding of speech in auditory brainstem predicts cerebral asymmetry for speech sounds measured in a group of children spanning a range of language skills. Results provide strong evidence that timing deficits measured at the auditory brainstem negatively impact rapid acoustic processing by specialized structures of cortex, and demonstrate a delicate relationship between cortical activation patterns and the temporal integrity of cortical input.
Injection molding‐induced morphology of thermoplastic polymer blends (2005)

Abstract Various morphologies induced by injection molding are reviewed here. The structural hierarchy in the direction perpendicular to flow direction always appears in the injection‐molded blends. The hierarchy involves three aspects: phase behavior hierarchy for the dispersed phase, crystalline or orientated structural hierarchy for the matrix, as well as hierarchy structure of co‐continuous phase morphology. There are usually three layers in the injection‐molded bars, i.e., the skin layer and the core region as well as the shear zone between them. The morphology of the dispersed phase is usually different between the skin zone (usually including shear zone) and the core region: deformed particles may exist in the skin layer, whereas spherical droplets in the core region. Moreover, the size of crystals usually increases with the increase of the distance to the surface due to the increase of crystallization time, and the orientation is often severe near the surface due to the high shear stress. Defects of the injection‐molded parts, such as weldline and flow marks, are also reviewed. The dispersed phase morphology in the weldline region is significantly different from the region out of the weldline and the morphology of the flow marks is also different from the out‐of‐flow marks. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 45:1655–1665, 2005. © 2005 Society of Plastics Engineers
Role of calcitonin gene-related peptide in prostaglandins-mediated ischemic preconditioning in guinea pig hearts. (2001)

Endogenous prostaglandins are involved in the protective effects of ischemic preconditioning, and the beneficial effects of prostaglandins are mediated by CGRP in the guinea pig heart.
Understanding PCIe performance for end host networking (2018)

In recent years, spurred on by the development and availability of programmable NICs, end hosts have increasingly become the enforcement point for core network functions such as load balancing, congestion control, and application specific network offloads. However, implementing custom designs on programmable NICs is not easy: many potential bottlenecks can impact performance.
Performance Prediction Methodology for Biometric Systems Using a Large Deviations Approach (2004)

In the selection of biometrics for use in a recognition system and in the subsequent design of the system, the predicted performance is a key consideration. The realizations of the biometric signatures or vectors of features extracted from the signatures can be modeled as realizations of random processes. These random processes and the resulting distributions on the measurements determine bounds on the performance, regardless of the implementation of the recognition system. Given the underlying random processes, two techniques are applied to determine performance bounds. First, large deviation analysis is applied to bound performance in (M+1)-ary hypothesis testing problems, where the number of hypotheses is fixed as a measure of the fidelity of the measurements increases. Second, the capacity of a recognition system as a function of the desired error rate is explored. The recognition system is directly analogous to a communication problem with random coding. The recognition reliability function then determines the error rate as a function of the exponential growth rate of the number of hypotheses. Gaussian and binary examples are considered in detail. Performance prediction in the binary example is compared with performance prediction results for iris recognition systems using Daugman's IrisCode.
Comparative study of mechanical and dielectric properties of glassy acrylic polymers containing 1,3‐dioxane rings in their structures (1999)

Abstract A comparative study of mechanical and dielectric relaxation behaviour in the glassy region of some acrylic polymers containing 1,3‐dioxane rings in the side chain is reported. Earlier results for similar polymers containing cycloaliphatic rings are used to interpret the results obtained. This study suggests that simple mechanisms based on chair‐to‐chair inverse conformational transitions are not able to explain in a unified way the responses of these polymers in the glassy region to mechanical and electric perturbation fields.
Introduction (1984)

SECRET intelligence has been described by one distinguished diplomat as 'the missing dimension of most diplomatic history'.1 The same dimension is also absent from most political and much military history. Academic historians have frequently tended either to ignore intelligence altogether, or to treat it as of little importance. The distinguished editor of a major volume of military diaries published in 1972 failed to realise that the references to 'C' and 'C's information' referred to the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS); the author of an important political history published in 1979 confused the head of the Special Branch with the head of the Security Service (MI5). A. J. P. Taylor's brilliant 875-page survey of English History 1914–1945 finds space (quite rightly) for George Robey and Nellie Melba but none for heads of the intelligence community. In this respect at least, Mr Taylor merely follows long-established precedent among modern historians.
Clinical features and risk factors for striae distensae in Korean adolescents (2006)

Our results indicate that striae distensae are a common skin condition that occurs early in puberty regardless of gender, and that they have a different anatomical distribution and relationship with body measurements in each gender.
Type‐I interferons mediate the neuroinflammatory response and neurotoxicity induced by rotenone (2016)

Evidence from post-mortem human brains, animal studies and cell culture models has implicated neuroinflammation in the aetiology of chronic neuropathologies including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Although the neuroinflammatory response is considered detrimental in contributing to these pathologies, the underlying mechanisms are still not well understood. The type-I interferons (IFNs) have been well characterised in the periphery and are known to initiate/modulate the immune response. Recently, they have been implicated in ageing and we have also demonstrated increased type-I IFN expression in post-mortem human Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease brains. We hypothesise that the type-I IFNs are key drivers of the damaging, self-perpetuating pro-inflammatory response that contributes to these chronic neuropathologies. In support of this, we have recently confirmed in models of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease that mice lacking the type-I IFN receptor (IFNAR1), display an attenuated neuroinflammatory response with subsequent neuroprotection. To further investigate type-I IFN-mediated neuroinflammation and the specific CNS cell types involved, this study treated primary cultured wild-type and IFNAR1<sup>-/-</sup> neurons or mixed glia with the mitochondrial complex I inhibitor, rotenone. Wild-type neurons and glia treated with 3 nM and 25 nM rotenone, respectively, exhibited a pro-inflammatory response, including increased type-I IFN expression that was attenuated in cells lacking IFNAR1. Reduced type-I IFN signalling in IFNAR1<sup>-/-</sup> neurons also conferred protection against caspase-3-mediated rotenone-induced cell death. Further, this reduced pro-inflammatory response in the IFNAR1<sup>-/-</sup> glia subsequently diminished their neurotoxic effects to wild-type neurons. In support of this, we confirmed that therapeutically targeting the type-I IFN glial response to rotenone through a specific IFNAR1 blocking monoclonal antibody was neuroprotective. Our data has confirmed that both neurons and glia contribute to the pro-inflammatory response induced by rotenone with attenuation of this response beneficial in reducing neuronal cell death. Read the Editorial Comment for this article on page 9.
Large refractive index changes in tunable-electron-density InGaAs/InAlAs quantum wells (1990)

Measurements of electrorefraction and electroabsorption in a multiple-quantum-well waveguide structure in which each InGaAs quantum well is provided with an individual electron reservoir are presented. External bias transfers electrons into the wells, thus quenching the absorption and producing a refractive index change at wavelengths below the bandedge which is linear in the applied voltage. It is shown that in this type of structure both the change in refractive index per applied field and the ratio of optical phase to intensity modulation can be significantly enhanced over those found in the quantum confined Stark effect.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
The self (2020)

In this chapter, the authors discuss the individuality and collectivity of the human self that develop through different developmental pathways across cultures. The self is a microcosm playing out in the macrocosm of family, community, society, and culture. Contemporary intellectual interests in the self can be traced back to William James, who devoted an extensive discussion of “the self” in his seminal treatise on the Principles of psychology. One of the ways of looking at the complexity of self-development is by examining two interrelated aspects of the self—autobiographical memory and self-concept. Drawing on the empirical findings of self-development in various cultural contexts, the authors analyze the content and manifestation of cultural constructions of the self in practical everyday activities through each developmental pathway. Biological maturation, cognitive growth, and social experience together interact to facilitate the development of the self. This holds true in all cultural settings.
Photophysical Properties of Sn-Porphyrins: Potential Clinical Implications (1988)

The photophysical properties of Sn-protoporphyrin and two of its synthetic analogues, Sn-mesoporphyrin and Sn-diiododeuteroporphyrin, were examined. All three compounds are potent competitive inhibitors of heme oxygenase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the catabolism of heme to bilirubin, and can suppress completely or diminish significantly experimentally induced or naturally occurring forms of jaundice in animals or man. The results of these studies show that all three compounds have long-lived triplet states which are quenched by molecular oxygen both in solution and when incorporated in liposomes. However, the addition of quenching groups such as iodine to the porphyrin macrocycle results in a marked (approximately 60%) decrease in the triplet yield and a threefold decrease in the triplet lifetime. The triplet yield was shown to be independent of the excitation wavelength, and as a result, the metalloporphyrins were extremely poor photosensitizers when excited in the spectral region commonly used in phototherapy. In the presence of serum albumin, the triplet state of Sn-protoporphyrin was not quenched by oxygen. These results indicate that Sn-porphyrins can be custom designed with considerably reduced photosensitizing properties for potential clinical use as inhibitors of bilirubin production.
Perfluorodecalin enhances <i>in vivo</i> confocal microscopy resolution of <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i> mesophyll (2010)

*Air spaces in the leaf mesophyll generate deleterious optical effects that compromise confocal microscopy. *Leaves were mounted in the nontoxic, nonfluorescent perfluorocarbon, perfluorodecalin (PFD), and optical enhancement and physiological effect were assessed using confocal microscopy and chlorophyll fluorescence. *Mounting leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana in PFD significantly improved the optical qualities of the leaf, thereby enabling high-resolution laser scanning confocal imaging over twofold deeper into the mesophyll, compared with using water. Incubation in PFD had less physiological impact on the mounted specimen than water. *We conclude that the application of PFD as a mounting medium substantially increases confocal image resolution of living mesophyll and vascular bundle cells, with minimal physiological impact.