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Open AccessLeveraging WiFi network logs to infer student collocation and its relationship with academic performance
A comprehensive understanding of collocated social interactions can help campuses and organizations better support their community. Universities could determine new ways to conduct classes and design programs ...
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Personalization Models for Human Activity Recognition with Distribution Matching-Based Metrics
Building activity recognition systems conventionally involves training a common model from all data of training users and utilizing this model to recognize activities of unseen subjects. However, participants ...
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Open AccessToxicity of fatty acid profiles of popular edible oils in human EndoC-βH1 beta-cells
An inappropriate diet, particularly excessive consumption of dietary fats and oils, may have a major negative impact on beta-cell function and cause type 2 diabetes mellitus. To investigate this issue, we exam...
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Automated General Movement Assessment for Perinatal Stroke Screening in Infants
Perinatal is a serious condition that often leads to life-long disability, in particular cerebral palsy (CP). Early detection and early intervention could improve motor outcome. In clinical settings, Prechtl...
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Open AccessAutomated tracking to measure behavioural changes in pigs for health and welfare monitoring
Since animals express their internal state through behaviour, changes in said behaviour may be used to detect early signs of problems, such as in animal health. Continuous observation of livestock by farm staf...
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Open AccessThe genetic basis of novel water utilisation and drinking behaviour traits and their relationship with biological performance in turkeys
There is increasing interest in the definition, measurement and use of traits associated with water use and drinking behaviour, mainly because water is a finite resource and its intake is an important part of ...
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Sensitivity profile of the human EndoC-βH1 beta cell line to proinflammatory cytokines
The aim of this study was to perform a detailed analysis of cytokine toxicity in the new human EndoC-βH1 beta cell line.
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Open AccessThe role of lipid droplet formation in the protection of unsaturated fatty acids against palmitic acid induced lipotoxicity to rat insulin-producing cells
Type 2 diabetes is associated with increased plasma concentrations of non-esterified fatty acids (NEFAs), which trigger pancreatic β-cell dysfunction and apoptosis. Only long-chain saturated NEFAs induced lipo...
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General Architecture
As a first step of document understanding a digital image of the document to be analyzed or the trajectory of the pen used for writing needs to be captured. From this raw data the relevant document elements (e...
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Discussion
In the last few years Markov models have been applied very successfully to the research field of handwriting recognition. In order to draw conclusions, in this chapter we will first summarize the state of the ...
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Introduction
Reading systems, i.e., machines that try to recreate the human capabilities of reading printed or handwritten script, are of fundamental scientific and commercial interest. They play a major role in a number o...
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Markov Model Concepts: The Essence
The integrated use of hidden Markov models (HMMs) and Markov chain models can be considered the state-of-the-art for the analysis of sequential data. The former represents a generative model that covers the “a...
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Markov Model Based Handwriting Recognition
Markov models are very popular for sequential data analysis tasks due to their clear and reliable statistical foundations combined with the existence of efficient and robust algorithms for both model training ...
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Activity Recognition and Healthier Food Preparation
Obesity is an increasing problem for modern societies, which implies enormous financial burdens for public health-care systems. There is growing evidence that a lack of cooking and food preparation skills is a...
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Recognition Systems for Practical Applications
Aiming at a comprehensive overview of Markov-model based handwriting recognition this chapter focusses on the description of recognition systems for practical applications. After the theoretical aspects and key d...
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A Dynamic Time War** Approach to Real-Time Activity Recognition for Food Preparation
We present a dynamic time war** based activity recognition system for the analysis of low-level food preparation activities. Accelerometers embedded into kitchen utensils provide continuous sensor data strea...
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Open AccessMarkov models for offline handwriting recognition: a survey
Since their first inception more than half a century ago, automatic reading systems have evolved substantially, thereby showing impressive performance on machine-printed text. The recognition of handwriting ca...
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Stacking for Ensembles of Local Experts in Metabonomic Applications
Recently, Ensembles of local experts have successfully been applied for the automatic detection of drug-induced organ toxicities based on spectroscopic data. For suitable Ensemble composition an expert selecti...
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Automatic Classification of NMR Spectra by Ensembles of Local Experts
A new approach for the automatic detection of drug-induced organ toxicities based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy data from biofluids is presented in this paper. Spectral data from biofluids contain...
