130 research outputs found
OncoLog Volume 50, Number 11, November 2005
Cancer in Young Adults Do Mind/Body Techniques Work? House Call: Tapping into Local and Online Resources Phytoestrogen Consumption May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk DiaLog: Radiation Therapy and Lung Cancer, by James D. Cox, MD, Professor and Head of the Division of Radiation Oncologyhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/oncolog/1140/thumbnail.jp
SIZER: A Dataset and Model for Parsing 3D Clothing and Learning Size Sensitive 3D Clothing
While models of 3D clothing learned from real data exist, no method can
predict clothing deformation as a function of garment size. In this paper, we
introduce SizerNet to predict 3D clothing conditioned on human body shape and
garment size parameters, and ParserNet to infer garment meshes and shape under
clothing with personal details in a single pass from an input mesh. SizerNet
allows to estimate and visualize the dressing effect of a garment in various
sizes, and ParserNet allows to edit clothing of an input mesh directly,
removing the need for scan segmentation, which is a challenging problem in
itself. To learn these models, we introduce the SIZER dataset of clothing size
variation which includes different subjects wearing casual clothing items
in various sizes, totaling to approximately 2000 scans. This dataset includes
the scans, registrations to the SMPL model, scans segmented in clothing parts,
garment category and size labels. Our experiments show better parsing accuracy
and size prediction than baseline methods trained on SIZER. The code, model and
dataset will be released for research purposes.Comment: European Conference on Computer Vision 202
Characterizing non-Markovian Quantum Processes by Fast Bayesian Tomography
To push gate performance to levels beyond the thresholds for quantum error
correction, it is important to characterize the error sources occurring on
quantum gates. However, the characterization of non-Markovian error poses a
challenge to current quantum process tomography techniques. Fast Bayesian
Tomography (FBT) is a self-consistent gate set tomography protocol that can be
bootstrapped from earlier characterization knowledge and be updated in
real-time with arbitrary gate sequences. Here we demonstrate how FBT allows for
the characterization of key non-Markovian error processes. We introduce two
experimental protocols for FBT to diagnose the non-Markovian behavior of
two-qubit systems on silicon quantum dots. To increase the efficiency and
scalability of the experiment-analysis loop, we develop an online FBT software
stack. To reduce experiment cost and analysis time, we also introduce a native
readout method and warm boot strategy. Our results demonstrate that FBT is a
useful tool for probing non-Markovian errors that can be detrimental to the
ultimate realization of fault-tolerant operation on quantum computing
European integration assessed in the light of the 'rules vs. standards debate'
The interplay of various legal systems in the European Union (EU) has long triggered a debate on the tension between uniformity and diversity of Member States' (MS) laws. This debate takes place among European legal scholars and is also paralleled by economic scholars, e.g. in the ambit of the 'theory of federalism'. This paper takes an innovative perspective on the discrepancy between 'centralized' and 'decentralized' law-making in the EU by assessing it with the help of the rules versus standards debate. When should the EU legislator grant the national legislator leeway in the formulation of new laws and when should all be fixed ex ante at European level? The literature on the 'optimal shape of legal norms' shall be revisited in the light of law-making in the EU, centrally dealing with the question how much discretion shall be given to the national legislator; and under which circumstances. This paper enhances the established decisive factors for the choice of a rule or a standard in a national setting (complexity, volatility, judges' specialization and frequency of application) by two new crucial factors (switching costs and the benefit of uniformity in terms of information costs) in order to assess law-making policies at EU level
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