980 research outputs found
Understanding Park Support: Philanthropy and Other Support for Yellowstone National Park
This report was conducted as one piece of a larger project on visitor support for Yellowstone National Park. Twenty-eight interviews were conducted with park non-profit supporters and repeat visitors to determine how these participants support the park and the reasons behind doing so. Additionally, other causes supported by participants were examined to place park support in a broader philanthropic context. Results revealed that beyond monetary support, activities such as sharing experiences, introducing newcomers to Yellowstone, and educating others about Yellowstone were common support activities utilized by all three groups. Repeat visitors were less likely to give monetary contributions, but otherwise equally active in other arenas of support. Reasons for providing these actions varied, but centered on aspects of Yellowstone that visitors valued, altruism, tangible benefits derived for support, and the efficacy of support actions. Participants were also actively involved in the larger field of philanthropy, supporting both other environmental causes as well as other typical non-profits
Light Field Compression by Residual CNN Assisted JPEG
Light field (LF) imaging has gained significant attention due to its recent
success in 3-dimensional (3D) displaying and rendering as well as augmented and
virtual reality usage. Nonetheless, because of the two extra dimensions, LFs
are much larger than conventional images. We develop a JPEG-assisted
learning-based technique to reconstruct an LF from a JPEG bitstream with a bit
per pixel ratio of 0.0047 on average. For compression, we keep the LF's center
view and use JPEG compression with 50% quality. Our reconstruction pipeline
consists of a small JPEG enhancement network (JPEG-Hance), a depth estimation
network (Depth-Net), followed by view synthesizing by warping the enhanced
center view. Our pipeline is significantly faster than using video compression
on pseudo-sequences extracted from an LF, both in compression and
decompression, while maintaining effective performance. We show that with a 1%
compression time cost and 18x speedup for decompression, our methods
reconstructed LFs have better structural similarity index metric (SSIM) and
comparable peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) compared to the state-of-the-art
video compression techniques used to compress LFs
Evidential Communities for Complex Networks
Community detection is of great importance for understand-ing graph structure
in social networks. The communities in real-world networks are often
overlapped, i.e. some nodes may be a member of multiple clusters. How to
uncover the overlapping communities/clusters in a complex network is a general
problem in data mining of network data sets. In this paper, a novel algorithm
to identify overlapping communi-ties in complex networks by a combination of an
evidential modularity function, a spectral mapping method and evidential
c-means clustering is devised. Experimental results indicate that this
detection approach can take advantage of the theory of belief functions, and
preforms good both at detecting community structure and determining the
appropri-ate number of clusters. Moreover, the credal partition obtained by the
proposed method could give us a deeper insight into the graph structure
Customized Blister Packaging for Patients Living with HIV: Assessment of Patient Attitudes and Satisfaction
Adherence to antiretroviral medication results in reduced HIV transmission and improved health outcomes, yet challenges with medication adherence remain. A Collaborative Care Program was developed with a community pharmacy integrating a multi-dose adherence packaging service. We surveyed program participants to assess their satisfaction with this program and found an overall positive sentiment toward the program, that the program helped with reducing missed doses, and all patients would recommend the program to others
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