191 Result(s)
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Abnormal Copper Accumulation in the Liver of LEC Rats: A Rat Form of Wilson’s Disease
Since the hepatitis in LEC rats is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene [1], a genetic metabolic disorder is likely to be the cause of the hepatitis. Although interesting biochemical changes associa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Evaluation of telecommunication network performances
In this paper, a methodology for evaluating performances of telecommunication networks based on optical fiber systems and DCS nodes is presented. Availability and lost traffic are chosen as performance measure...
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Studies on Pretreatment of Human Fetal Islet In Vitro and Clinical Islet Transplantation in China
We have been undertaking the studies on experimental islet transplantation since 1978 and clinical islet transplantation with short-term cultured human fetal islet tissue in patients with insulin-dependent (ty...
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The Change in Plasma PAF Activity before and after Delivery
Platelet-activating factor (1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, PAF) is one of the most potent lipid mediators described and has been found to be involved in a wide varity of physiological and path...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A New Genetic Algorithm for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem
This paper proposes a new genetic algorithm to solve the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree problem. The proposed algorithm works on a tree chromosome without intermediate encoding and decoding, and uses cros...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Effective Implementation of a Direct Spanning Tree Representation in GAs
This paper presents an effective implementation based on predecessor vectors of a genetic algorithm using a direct tree representation. The main operations associated with crossovers and mutations can be achie...
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A Two-Level Search Strategy for Packing Unequal Circles into a Circle Container
We propose a two-level search strategy to solve a two dimensional circle packing problem. At the first level, a good enough packing algorithm called A1.0 uses a simple heuristic to select the next circle to be pa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Human Pacman: A Mobile Entertainment System with Ubiquitous Computing and Tangible Interaction over a Wide Outdoor Area
Human Pacman is an interactive role-playing game that envisions to bring the computer gaming experience to a new level of emotional and sensory gratification by setting the real world as a playground. This is ...
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Biometrics for Security in E-Commerce
The advance of technology is always inspired by the practical applications, and the emergence of automatic biometrics technology is rooted in the requirement for real-world security applications. Whether this ...
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Automatically Extracting Manmade Objects from Pan-Sharpened High-Resolution Satellite Imagery Using a Fuzzy Segmentation Method
The paper describes a new method for extracting objects from high resolution color remote sensing images. This method is based on the fuzzy segmentation algorithm which has been developed in our previous works...
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High-Resolution Satellite Image Sources for Disaster Management in Urban Areas
With the rapid development of Earth observation technology and geospatial information technology, disaster managers (in the broadest sense) now have power tools capable of collecting and integrating data from ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
RecipeCrawler: Collecting Recipe Data from WWW Incrementally
WWW has posed itself as the largest data repository ever available in the history of humankind. Utilizing the Internet as a data source seems to be natural and many efforts have been made. In this paper we foc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Method for Automated News Content Extraction from the Web
Web news content extraction is vital to improve news indexing and searching in nowadays search engines, especially for the news searching service. In this paper we study the Web news content extraction problem...
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A Fuzzy Relational Method For Image-Based Road Extraction For Traffic Emergency Services
The new generation of high spatial resolution satellite imagery such as IKONOS and QuickBird provide a viable alternative to high resolution aerial imagery. These data have been readily adopted on various appl...
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Data Segmentation of Stereo Images with Complicated Background
With the development of computer science, there is an increasing demand on the object recognition in stereo images. As a binocular image pair contains larger and more complicated information than a monocular i...
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Enumerating Unlabeled and Root Labeled Trees for Causal Model Acquisition
To specify a Bayes net (BN), a conditional probability table (CPT), often of an effect conditioned on its n causes, needs to be assessed for each node. It generally has the complexity exponential on n. The non-im...
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Towards Effective Elicitation of NIN-AND Tree Causal Models
To specify a Bayes net (BN), a conditional probability table (CPT), often of an effect conditioned on its n causes, needs assessed for each node. It generally has the complexity exponential on n. Noisy-OR reduces...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Event Recognition from News Webpages through Latent Ingredients Extraction
We investigate the novel problem of event recognition from news webpages. “Events” are basic text units containing news elements. We observe that a news article is always constituted by more than one event, na...
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The Application of Disturbance Observer to Propulsion Control of Sub-mini Underwater Robot
In this paper, the propulsive motility characteristics and the corresponding motion equations of a self-designed sub-mini underwater robot were analyzed. And the disturbance observer was used in propulsive mot...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DigestJoin: Expediting Joins on Solid-State Drives
This demonstration presents a recently proposed join algorithm called DigestJoin. Optimized for solid-state drives (SSDs), DigestJoin aims at reducing intermediate join results and hence expensive write operation...
