Autonomous Instrument Placement for Mars Exploration Rovers

Autonomous Instrument Placement (AutoPlace) is onboard software that enables a Mars Exploration Rover to act autonomously in using its manipulator to place scientific instruments on or near designated rock and soil targets. Prior to the development of AutoPlace, it was necessary for human operators on Earth to plan every motion of the manipulator arm in a time-consuming process that included downlinking of images from the rover, analysis of images and creation of commands, and uplinking of commands to the rover. AutoPlace incorporates image analysis and planning algorithms into the onboard rover software, eliminating the need for the downlink/uplink command cycle. Many of these algorithms are derived from the existing groundbased image analysis and planning algorithms, with modifications and augmentations for onboard use

Sex differences in clinical presentation, severity and outcome of stroke: Results from a hospital-based registry

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Ontology-Driven Food Category Classification in Images

The self-management of chronic diseases related to dietary habits includes the necessity of tracking what people eat. Most of the approaches proposed in the literature classify food pictures by labels describing the whole recipe. The main drawback of this kind of strategy is that a wrong prediction of the recipe leads to a wrong prediction of any ingredient of such a recipe. In this paper we present a multi-label food classification approach, exploiting deep neural networks, where each food picture is classified with labels describing the food categories of the ingredients in each recipe. The aim of our approach is to support the detection of food categories in order to detect which one might be dangerous for a user affected by chronic disease. Our approach relies on background knowledge where recipes, food categories, and their relatedness with chronic diseases are modeled within a state-of-the-art ontology. Experiments conducted on a new publicly released dataset demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed approach with respect to state-of-the-art classification strategies

“Fantasmas” na mecânica quântica

CNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOCAPES - COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIORFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOCan you pick a complex subject in quantum mechanics and discuss it with a minimum number of equations, in a simplified form that the general scientific public could understand? This was a question presented to graduate students of the one-year Quantum Mechanics course based on the text book Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano, at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. The first seven authors of this paper are graduate students (alphabetical order) that accepted to try it. The chosen subject was "delocalized quantum states", and it will be discussed using colloquial terms like quantum ghosts, spooky action, splitting beings and invisibility cloak. © Sociedade Brasileira de Física. Printed in Brazil.Can you pick a complex subject in quantum mechanics and discuss it with a minimum number of equations, in a simplified form that the general scientific public could understand? This was a question presented to graduate students of the one-year Quantum Mechanics course based on the text book Modern Quantum Mechanics by J. J. Sakurai and Jim Napolitano, at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. The first seven authors of this paper are graduate students (alphabetical order) that accepted to try it. The chosen subject was "delocalized quantum states", and it will be discussed using colloquial terms like quantum ghosts, spooky action, splitting beings and invisibility cloak.383111CNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOCAPES - COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIORFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOCNPQ - CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOCAPES - COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DE PESSOAL DE NÍVEL SUPERIORFAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOSem informaçãoSem informaçãoSem informaçãoPode-se escolher um topico complexo em mecanica quantica e discuti-lo com um numero mınimo de equações, e de forma simplificada para que um publico com apenas conhecimento basico em fısica possa entender? Essa foi a pergunta apresentada aos alunos de pos-graduação das disciplinas de um ano de Mecanica Quantica I e II da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), baseadas no livro “Quantum Mechanics” de J. J. Sakurai e Jim Napolitano. Os primeiros sete autores desse artigosão os alunos de pos-graduação (em ordem alfabetica) que aceitaram o desafio. O topico escolhido foi estados quanticos delocalizados, e sera discutido utilizando termos coloquiais como fantasmas quanticos, ações fantasmagoricas, entidades divididas e capa de invisibilidade.G.M.A., D.T.M, M.M. and M.A.P.L acknowledge support from the Brazilian agency “Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico” (CNPq). D.Q.A., L.F.M.C, and S.I.C.G acknowledge support from the Brazilian agency “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior” (CAPES), and L.F.C.F acknowledges support from the Brazilian state of São Paulo agency “Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo” (FAPESP). The authors thank Amanda A. R. Lima for drawing the inspiring figure 2. The authors are grateful to Profs. Michael Brunger, Prof. Amir Caldeira and Prof. José A. Roversi for their critical reading of the manuscript and constructive comments and suggestions. The authors also thank for critical reading of this manuscript, the following group of people of the aimed public target: Paulo S. P. Lima (Mechanical Engineer), Martín E. Navarro Maldonado (Chemical Engineer), and Luis Quesada (Professor of Computer Science and Informatics)

On the recurrence and robust properties of Lorenz'63 model

Lie-Poisson structure of the Lorenz'63 system gives a physical insight on its dynamical and statistical behavior considering the evolution of the associated Casimir functions. We study the invariant density and other recurrence features of a Markov expanding Lorenz-like map of the interval arising in the analysis of the predictability of the extreme values reached by particular physical observables evolving in time under the Lorenz'63 dynamics with the classical set of parameters. Moreover, we prove the statistical stability of such an invariant measure. This will allow us to further characterize the SRB measure of the system.Comment: 44 pages, 7 figures, revised version accepted for pubblicatio