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Glasgow University at TRECVID 2006
In the first part of this paper we describe our experiments in the automatic and interactive search tasks of TRECVID 2006. We submitted five fully automatic runs, including a text baseline, two runs based on visual features, and two runs that combine textual and visual features in a graph model. For the interactive search, we have implemented a new video search interface with relevance feedback facilities, based on both textual and visual features.
The second part is concerned with our approach to the high-level feature extraction task, based on textual information extracted from speech recogniser and machine translation outputs. They were aligned with shots and associated with high-level feature references. A list of significant words was created for each feature, and it was in turn utilised for identification of a feature during the evaluation
Patterns of reproductive isolation in a haplodiploid – strong postmating, prezygotic barriers among three forms of a social spider mite
Layer-specific morphological and molecular differences in neocortical astrocytes and their dependence on neuronal layers
Non-pial neocortical astrocytes have historically been thought to comprise largely a nondiverse population of protoplasmic astrocytes. Here we show that astrocytes of the mouse somatosensory cortex manifest layer-specific morphological and molecular differences. Two- and three-dimensional observations revealed that astrocytes in the different layers possess distinct morphologies as reflected by differences in cell orientation, territorial volume, and arborization. The extent of ensheathment of synaptic clefts by astrocytes in layer II/III was greater than that by those in layer VI. Moreover, differences in gene expression were observed between upper-layer and deep-layer astrocytes. Importantly, layer-specific differences in astrocyte properties were abrogated in reeler and Dab1 conditional knockout mice, in which neuronal layers are disturbed, suggesting that neuronal layers are a prerequisite for the observed morphological and molecular differences of neocortical astrocytes. This study thus demonstrates the existence of layer-specific interactions between neurons and astrocytes, which may underlie their layer-specific functions
Fabrication of aligned carbon nanotube-filled rubber composite
ArticleScripta Materialia. 54(1):31-35 (2006)journal articl
Применение криптографических методов шифрования информации
Необходимость технических средств защиты диктуется тем, что Интернет – это источник информации, за который никто не несет ответственности, и вероятность получения из него недостоверной, оскорбительной, пиратской или запрещенной по другим причинам информации весьма велика.The need for technological protection measures dictated by the fact that the Internet - a source of information for which no one is responsible, and the probability of getting out of it inaccurate, abusive, pirated or illegal for other reasons information is very high
Spin relaxation due to the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism in intrinsic and -type GaAs quantum wells from a fully microscopic approach
We study the electron spin relaxation in intrinsic and -type (001) GaAs
quantum wells by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic spin Bloch
equations. All the relevant scatterings are explicitly included, especially the
spin-flip electron-heavy hole exchange scattering which leads to the
Bir-Aronov-Pikus spin relaxation. We show that, due to the neglection of the
nonlinear terms in the electron-heavy hole exchange scattering in the
Fermi-golden-rule approach, the spin relaxation due to the Bir-Aronov-Pikus
mechanism is greatly exaggerated at moderately high electron density and low
temperature in the literature. We compare the spin relaxation time due to the
Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism with that due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism
which is also calculated from the kinetic spin Bloch equations with all the
scatterings, especially the spin-conserving electron-electron and
electron-heavy hole scatterings, included. We find that, in intrinsic quantum
wells, the effect from the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism is much smaller than that
from the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism at low temperature, and it is smaller by no
more than one order of magnitude at high temperature. In -type quantum
wells, the spin relaxation due to the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism is also much
smaller than the one due to the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism at low temperature
and becomes comparable to each other at higher temperature when the hole
density and the width of the quantum well are large enough. We claim that
unlike in the bulk samples, the Bir-Aronov-Pikus mechanism hardly dominates the
spin relaxation in two-dimensional samples.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, Phys. Rev. B 77, 2008, in pres
Axiomatic Bargaining Theory on Opportunity Assignments
This paper discusses issues of axiomatic bargaining problems over opportunity assignments. The fair arbitrator uses the principle of "equal opportunity" for all players to make the recommendation on re- source allocations. A framework in such a context is developed and several classical solutions to standard bargaining problems are reformulated and axiomatically characterized. Working Paper 06-4
A nonextensive entropy approach to solar wind intermittency
The probability distributions (PDFs) of the differences of any physical
variable in the intermittent, turbulent interplanetary medium are scale
dependent. Strong non-Gaussianity of solar wind fluctuations applies for short
time-lag spacecraft observations, corresponding to small-scale spatial
separations, whereas for large scales the differences turn into a Gaussian
normal distribution. These characteristics were hitherto described in the
context of the log-normal, the Castaing distribution or the shell model. On the
other hand, a possible explanation for nonlocality in turbulence is offered
within the context of nonextensive entropy generalization by a recently
introduced bi-kappa distribution, generating through a convolution of a
negative-kappa core and positive-kappa halo pronounced non-Gaussian structures.
The PDFs of solar wind scalar field differences are computed from WIND and ACE
data for different time lags and compared with the characteristics of the
theoretical bi-kappa functional, well representing the overall scale dependence
of the spatial solar wind intermittency. The observed PDF characteristics for
increased spatial scales are manifest in the theoretical distribution
functional by enhancing the only tuning parameter , measuring the
degree of nonextensivity where the large-scale Gaussian is approached for
. The nonextensive approach assures for experimental studies
of solar wind intermittency independence from influence of a priori model
assumptions. It is argued that the intermittency of the turbulent fluctuations
should be related physically to the nonextensive character of the
interplanetary medium counting for nonlocal interactions via the entropy
generalization.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophys.
Large-Eddy Simulations of Fluid and Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Using Renormalized Parameters
In this paper a procedure for large-eddy simulation (LES) has been devised
for fluid and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in Fourier space using the
renormalized parameters. The parameters calculated using field theory have been
taken from recent papers by Verma [Phys. Rev. E, 2001; Phys. Plasmas, 2001]. We
have carried out LES on grid. These results match quite well with direct
numerical simulations of . We show that proper choice of parameter is
necessary in LES.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures: Proper figures inserte
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