Print engine color management using customer image content

The production of quality color prints requires that color accuracy and reproducibility be maintained to within very tight tolerances when transferred to different media. Variations in the printing process commonly produce color shifts that result in poor color reproduction. The primary function of a color management system is maintaining color quality and consistency. Currently these systems are tuned in the factory by printing a large set of test color patches, measuring them, and making necessary adjustments. This time-consuming procedure should be repeated as needed once the printer leaves the factory. In this work, a color management system that compensates for print color shifts in real-time using feedback from an in-line full-width sensor is proposed. Instead of printing test patches, this novel attempt at color management utilizes the output pixels already rendered in production pages, for a continuous printer characterization. The printed pages are scanned in-line and the results are utilized to update the process by which colorimetric image content is translated into engine specific color separations (e.g. CIELAB-\u3eCMYK). The proposed system provides a means to perform automatic printer characterization, by simply printing a set of images that cover the gamut of the printer. Moreover, all of the color conversion features currently utilized in production systems (such as Gray Component Replacement, Gamut Mapping, and Color Smoothing) can be achieved with the proposed system

IMAGE PROCESSING, SEGMENTATION AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO CLASSIFY AND DELINEATE TUMOR VOLUMES TO SUPPORT MEDICAL DECISION

Techniques for processing and analysing images and medical data have become the main’s translational applications and researches in clinical and pre-clinical environments. The advantages of these techniques are the improvement of diagnosis accuracy and the assessment of treatment response by means of quantitative biomarkers in an efficient way. In the era of the personalized medicine, an early and efficacy prediction of therapy response in patients is still a critical issue. In radiation therapy planning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides high quality detailed images and excellent soft-tissue contrast, while Computerized Tomography (CT) images provides attenuation maps and very good hard-tissue contrast. In this context, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a non-invasive imaging technique which has the advantage, over morphological imaging techniques, of providing functional information about the patient’s disease. In the last few years, several criteria to assess therapy response in oncological patients have been proposed, ranging from anatomical to functional assessments. Changes in tumour size are not necessarily correlated with changes in tumour viability and outcome. In addition, morphological changes resulting from therapy occur slower than functional changes. Inclusion of PET images in radiotherapy protocols is desirable because it is predictive of treatment response and provides crucial information to accurately target the oncological lesion and to escalate the radiation dose without increasing normal tissue injury. For this reason, PET may be used for improving the Planning Treatment Volume (PTV). Nevertheless, due to the nature of PET images (low spatial resolution, high noise and weak boundary), metabolic image processing is a critical task. The aim of this Ph.D thesis is to develope smart methodologies applied to the medical imaging field to analyse different kind of problematic related to medical images and data analysis, working closely to radiologist physicians. Various issues in clinical environment have been addressed and a certain amount of improvements has been produced in various fields, such as organs and tissues segmentation and classification to delineate tumors volume using meshing learning techniques to support medical decision. In particular, the following topics have been object of this study: • Technique for Crohn’s Disease Classification using Kernel Support Vector Machine Based; • Automatic Multi-Seed Detection For MR Breast Image Segmentation; • Tissue Classification in PET Oncological Studies; • KSVM-Based System for the Definition, Validation and Identification of the Incisinal Hernia Reccurence Risk Factors; • A smart and operator independent system to delineate tumours in Positron Emission Tomography scans; 3 • Active Contour Algorithm with Discriminant Analysis for Delineating Tumors in Positron Emission Tomography; • K-Nearest Neighbor driving Active Contours to Delineate Biological Tumor Volumes; • Tissue Classification to Support Local Active Delineation of Brain Tumors; • A fully automatic system of Positron Emission Tomography Study segmentation. This work has been developed in collaboration with the medical staff and colleagues at the: • Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Biotecnologie Mediche e Forensi (DIBIMED), University of Palermo • Cannizzaro Hospital of Catania • Istituto di Bioimmagini e Fisiologia Molecolare (IBFM) Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) of Cefalù • School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology The proposed contributions have produced scientific publications in indexed computer science and medical journals and conferences. They are very useful in terms of PET and MRI image segmentation and may be used daily as a Medical Decision Support Systems to enhance the current methodology performed by healthcare operators in radiotherapy treatments. The future developments of this research concern the integration of data acquired by image analysis with the managing and processing of big data coming from a wide kind of heterogeneous sources

The Ghost of Olmsted: Nature, History & Urban Park Restoration in Boston\u27s Emerald Necklace

This dissertation examines the nineteenth-century production, the twentieth-century deterioration, and the twenty-first century restoration of Boston\u27s Emerald Necklace, a 1,100-acre series of parks and parkways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903). Originally built to meet a particular set of aesthetic landscape tastes, over time this park system changed to meet the recreational needs of visitors. Throughout, the Emerald Necklace has served the interests of Boston\u27s urban elite. It is, therefore, an appropriate case for examining the historical relationship between power and landscape. The parks of the Emerald Necklace did more than provide pretty views and space for play; they advanced the upper-class economic and cultural agendas of boosterism, real-estate speculation, and cultural assimilation. When we look at the nineteenth-century political economic context in which Olmsted worked and compare it to the late-twentieth/early-twenty-first century political economic context associated with park restoration, an intriguing historical-geographical parallelism becomes apparent. In both moments, the Emerald Necklace operated as part a specific spatial fix to a variety of environmental, economic, and social problems associated with major crises of production within U.S. capitalism. I trace the development of Olmsted\u27s naturalistic design philosophy, beginning with his work in New York City\u27s Central Park through to his involvement with the Emerald Necklace. His naturalistic landscape parks helped improve sanitation in Boston, and shaped the further development and growth of the city. By the 1970s, the parks had been modernized. The original Olmsted design had been substantially modified and economic austerity measures led to neglect due to deferred maintenance. By the 1980s, they had become derelict havens of crime with degraded ecosystems in need of restoration. Efforts to restore the parks of the Emerald Necklace represent a new park typology: the Conservancy Park. This typology reflects the work of private park conservancies and not-for-profits as they seek to translate the entrepreneurial dimensions of neoliberal urbanism into the urban fabric. These conservancies, along with city and state officials, have relied upon the ghost of Olmsted to guide the restoration process. As part of an urban sustainability fix, the restoration of this park system is based less on scientific or technical criteria than on aesthetics and the economic fetishizing of the original Olmsted vision. Park restoration, therefore, reflects a symbolic economy associated with the redevelopment and gentrification of post-industrial neoliberal cities. This dissertation reframes the discussion about parks and urban sustainability to focus more on a progressive (future-oriented) restoration of urban parks. To date, park restoration in the Emerald Necklace, is past-oriented, conservative, and unsustainable. Instead, parks are a process, and not just as a thing. Twenty-first century American cities should focus on ecological function, rather than simply on the reification and recomposition of historic landscapes

Chemical analysis of polymer blends via synchrotron X-ray tomography

Material properties of industrial polymer blends are of great importance. X-ray tomography has been used to obtain spatial chemical information about various polymer blends. The spatial images are acquired with synchrotron X-ray tomography because of its rapidity, good spatial resolution, large field-of-view, and elemental sensitivity. The spatial absorption data acquired from X-ray tomography experiments is converted to spatial chemical information via a linear least squares fit of multi-spectral X-ray absorption data. A fiberglass-reinforced polymer blend with a new-generation flame retardant is studied with multi-energy synchrotron X-ray tomography to assess the blend homogeneity. Relative to other composite materials, this sample is difficult to image due to low x-ray contrast between the fiberglass reinforcement and the polymer blend. To investigate chemical composition surrounding the glass fibers, new procedures were developed to find and mark the fiberglass, then assess the flame retardant distribution near the fiber. Another polymer blending experiment using three-dimensional chemical analysis techniques to look at a polymer additive problem called blooming was done. To investigate the chemical process of blooming, new procedures are developed to assess the flame retardant distribution as a function of annealing time in the sample. With the spatial chemical distribution we fit the concentrations to a diffusion equation to each time step in the annealing process. Finally the diffusion properties of a polymer blend composed of hexabromobenzene and o-terphenyl was studied. The diffusion properties were compared with computer simulations of the blend

24th International Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases

In the last three decades information modelling and knowledge bases have become essentially important subjects not only in academic communities related to information systems and computer science but also in the business area where information technology is applied. The series of European – Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases (EJC) originally started as a co-operation initiative between Japan and Finland in 1982. The practical operations were then organised by professor Ohsuga in Japan and professors Hannu Kangassalo and Hannu Jaakkola in Finland (Nordic countries). Geographical scope has expanded to cover Europe and also other countries. Workshop characteristic - discussion, enough time for presentations and limited number of participants (50) / papers (30) - is typical for the conference. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Conceptual modelling: Modelling and specification languages; Domain-specific conceptual modelling; Concepts, concept theories and ontologies; Conceptual modelling of large and heterogeneous systems; Conceptual modelling of spatial, temporal and biological data; Methods for developing, validating and communicating conceptual models. 2. Knowledge and information modelling and discovery: Knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and knowledge management; Advanced data mining and analysis methods; Conceptions of knowledge and information; Modelling information requirements; Intelligent information systems; Information recognition and information modelling. 3. Linguistic modelling: Models of HCI; Information delivery to users; Intelligent informal querying; Linguistic foundation of information and knowledge; Fuzzy linguistic models; Philosophical and linguistic foundations of conceptual models. 4. Cross-cultural communication and social computing: Cross-cultural support systems; Integration, evolution and migration of systems; Collaborative societies; Multicultural web-based software systems; Intercultural collaboration and support systems; Social computing, behavioral modeling and prediction. 5. Environmental modelling and engineering: Environmental information systems (architecture); Spatial, temporal and observational information systems; Large-scale environmental systems; Collaborative knowledge base systems; Agent concepts and conceptualisation; Hazard prediction, prevention and steering systems. 6. Multimedia data modelling and systems: Modelling multimedia information and knowledge; Contentbased multimedia data management; Content-based multimedia retrieval; Privacy and context enhancing technologies; Semantics and pragmatics of multimedia data; Metadata for multimedia information systems. Overall we received 56 submissions. After careful evaluation, 16 papers have been selected as long paper, 17 papers as short papers, 5 papers as position papers, and 3 papers for presentation of perspective challenges. We thank all colleagues for their support of this issue of the EJC conference, especially the program committee, the organising committee, and the programme coordination team. The long and the short papers presented in the conference are revised after the conference and published in the Series of “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence” by IOS Press (Amsterdam). The books “Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases” are edited by the Editing Committee of the conference. We believe that the conference will be productive and fruitful in the advance of research and application of information modelling and knowledge bases. Bernhard Thalheim Hannu Jaakkola Yasushi Kiyok

Great Plains Research, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2011 (complete issue)

NATURAL SCIENCES New Records of Carrion Beetles in Nebraska Reveal Increased Presence of the American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus Olivier (Coleoptera: Silphidae) • Jessica Jurzenski, Daniel G. Snethen, Mathew L. Brust, and W. Wyatt Hoback . . 131 Surveillance of Selected Diseases in Free-Ranging Elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) in Nebraska, 1995-2009 • Michael A. Cover, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Scott R. Groepper, David W. Oates, Kit M. Hams, and Kurt C. VerCauteren . . 145 Historical Biogeography of Nebraska Pronghorns (Antifocapra americana) • Justin D. Hoffman, Hugh H. Genoways, and Rachel R. Jones . 153 Native and European Haplotypes of Phragmites australis (common reed) in the Central Platte River, Nebraska • Diane L. Larson, Susan M. Galatowitsch, and Jennifer L. Larson . 175 Effects of Herbicides and Grazing on Floristic Quality of Native Tallgrass Pastures in Eastern South Dakota and Southwestern Minnesota • Alexander J. Smart, Matthew J. Nelson, Peter J. Bauman, and Gary E. Larson . 181 SOCIAL SCIENCES Persistent Place-Based Income Inequality in Rural Nebraska, 1979-2009 • David J. Peters . . 191 Future Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program in North Dakota Lorilie M. Atkinson, Rebecca J. Romsdahl, and Michael J. Hill . 203 A Model of Human Scale Tested on Rural Landscape Scenes Richard K. Sutton . 215 Ecoregional Differences in Late-20th-Century Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in the U.S. Northern Great Plains •Roger F. Auch, Kristi L. Sayler, Darrell E. Napton, Janis L. Taylor, and Mark S. Brooks . 231 BOOK REVIEWS Sartore, Joel •RARE: Portraits of America\u27s Endangered Species • • Reviewed by Jim Mason . 245 Johnsgard, Paul A. •Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America\u27s Wetlands • Reviewed by Janice M. Hughes . 245 Fogell, Daniel D. •A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska •Reviewed by Joseph T. Collins . 246 Abbott, John C. •Damselflies of Texas: A Field Guide • Reviewed by Forrest L. Mitchell . 246 Truett, Joe c.; Foreword by Harry W. Greene •Grass: In Search of Human Habitat • Reviewed by Mary Ann Vinton . 247 Gottlieb, Robert, and Anupama Joshi •Food Justice • Reviewed by Toby A. Ten Eyck . 247 Owsley, Douglas W., Margaret A. Jodry, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., C. Vance Haynes, Jr., and Dennis J. Stanford • Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology Reviewed by Daniel J. Wescott . 248 Blakeslee, Donald J. •Holy Ground, Healing Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas • Reviewed by Lauren W. Ritterbush . 249 Peck, Trevor R. •Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains • Reviewed by Matthew Boyd . 249 Fowler, Loretta •Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History • Reviewed by Kathleen Fine-Dare . 250 Shreve, Bradley G.; Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt •Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism • Reviewed by Bruce E. Johansen . 250 Brownstone, Arni, and Hugh Dempsey, eds. •Generous Man - Ahxs-i-tapina: Essays in Memory of Colin Taylor, Plains Indian Ethnologist • Reviewed by Daniel C. Swan . 251 Paquette, Jerry, and Gerald Fallon •First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock? • Reviewed by Mark Aquash . 252 Kanu, Yatta •Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into the School Curriculum: Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges • Reviewed by Jim Silver . 252 Kant, Joanita •Gentle People: A Case Study of Rockport Colony Hutterites • Reviewed by Rod Janzen . 253 Wuthnow, Robert •Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s • Reviewed by Randolph L. Cantrell . 253 Thomas, Paul G., and Curtis Brown, eds. • Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions • Reviewed by Jim Mochoruk . 254 Stange, Mary Zeiss •Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch • Reviewed by Linda M. Hasselstrom . 255 Neal, Bill; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken •Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style • Reviewed by Paul N. Spellman . 255 NEWS AND NOTES . . 257 ANNUAL INDEX . . 25

Great Plains Research, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2011 (complete issue)

NATURAL SCIENCES New Records of Carrion Beetles in Nebraska Reveal Increased Presence of the American Burying Beetle, Nicrophorus americanus Olivier (Coleoptera: Silphidae) • Jessica Jurzenski, Daniel G. Snethen, Mathew L. Brust, and W. Wyatt Hoback . . 131 Surveillance of Selected Diseases in Free-Ranging Elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni) in Nebraska, 1995-2009 • Michael A. Cover, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Scott R. Groepper, David W. Oates, Kit M. Hams, and Kurt C. VerCauteren . . 145 Historical Biogeography of Nebraska Pronghorns (Antifocapra americana) • Justin D. Hoffman, Hugh H. Genoways, and Rachel R. Jones . 153 Native and European Haplotypes of Phragmites australis (common reed) in the Central Platte River, Nebraska • Diane L. Larson, Susan M. Galatowitsch, and Jennifer L. Larson . 175 Effects of Herbicides and Grazing on Floristic Quality of Native Tallgrass Pastures in Eastern South Dakota and Southwestern Minnesota • Alexander J. Smart, Matthew J. Nelson, Peter J. Bauman, and Gary E. Larson . 181 SOCIAL SCIENCES Persistent Place-Based Income Inequality in Rural Nebraska, 1979-2009 • David J. Peters . . 191 Future Participation in the Conservation Reserve Program in North Dakota Lorilie M. Atkinson, Rebecca J. Romsdahl, and Michael J. Hill . 203 A Model of Human Scale Tested on Rural Landscape Scenes Richard K. Sutton . 215 Ecoregional Differences in Late-20th-Century Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in the U.S. Northern Great Plains •Roger F. Auch, Kristi L. Sayler, Darrell E. Napton, Janis L. Taylor, and Mark S. Brooks . 231 BOOK REVIEWS Sartore, Joel •RARE: Portraits of America\u27s Endangered Species • • Reviewed by Jim Mason . 245 Johnsgard, Paul A. •Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America\u27s Wetlands • Reviewed by Janice M. Hughes . 245 Fogell, Daniel D. •A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Nebraska •Reviewed by Joseph T. Collins . 246 Abbott, John C. •Damselflies of Texas: A Field Guide • Reviewed by Forrest L. Mitchell . 246 Truett, Joe c.; Foreword by Harry W. Greene •Grass: In Search of Human Habitat • Reviewed by Mary Ann Vinton . 247 Gottlieb, Robert, and Anupama Joshi •Food Justice • Reviewed by Toby A. Ten Eyck . 247 Owsley, Douglas W., Margaret A. Jodry, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., C. Vance Haynes, Jr., and Dennis J. Stanford • Arch Lake Woman: Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology Reviewed by Daniel J. Wescott . 248 Blakeslee, Donald J. •Holy Ground, Healing Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Lake, Kansas • Reviewed by Lauren W. Ritterbush . 249 Peck, Trevor R. •Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains • Reviewed by Matthew Boyd . 249 Fowler, Loretta •Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho History • Reviewed by Kathleen Fine-Dare . 250 Shreve, Bradley G.; Foreword by Shirley Hill Witt •Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism • Reviewed by Bruce E. Johansen . 250 Brownstone, Arni, and Hugh Dempsey, eds. •Generous Man - Ahxs-i-tapina: Essays in Memory of Colin Taylor, Plains Indian Ethnologist • Reviewed by Daniel C. Swan . 251 Paquette, Jerry, and Gerald Fallon •First Nations Education Policy in Canada: Progress or Gridlock? • Reviewed by Mark Aquash . 252 Kanu, Yatta •Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives into the School Curriculum: Purposes, Possibilities, and Challenges • Reviewed by Jim Silver . 252 Kant, Joanita •Gentle People: A Case Study of Rockport Colony Hutterites • Reviewed by Rod Janzen . 253 Wuthnow, Robert •Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s • Reviewed by Randolph L. Cantrell . 253 Thomas, Paul G., and Curtis Brown, eds. • Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions • Reviewed by Jim Mochoruk . 254 Stange, Mary Zeiss •Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch • Reviewed by Linda M. Hasselstrom . 255 Neal, Bill; foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken •Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style • Reviewed by Paul N. Spellman . 255 NEWS AND NOTES . . 257 ANNUAL INDEX . . 25

Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES

This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from 2021 DigitalFUTURES—The 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2021). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. As well, readers encounter new ideas about understanding material intelligence in architecture

African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks For Rural Water Management in Africa: an international workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26-28 January 2005

Water law / Water management / Water policy / Poverty / River basins / Irrigation systems / Institutions / Wetlands