IAEA coordinated research project on nuclear data for charged-particle monitor reactions and medical isotope production

An IAEA coordinated research project was launched in December 2012 to establish and improve the nuclear data required to characterise charged-particle monitor reactions and extend data for medical radionuclide production. An international team was assembled to undertake work addressing the requirements for more accurate cross-section data over a wide range of targets and projectiles, undertaken in conjunction with a limited number of measurements and more extensive evaluations of the decay data of specific radionuclides. These studies are nearing completion, and are briefly described below

Legislative Documents

Also, variously referred to as: House bills; House documents; House legislative documents; legislative documents; General Court documents

Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Targetry and Target Chemistry

The workshop is organized by the Nuclear Physics Institute of Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, public research institution, together with the Institute of Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Research of Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf and in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the support of many private sponsors. It is rather symbolic that Czech and German research institutions joined now freely their powers in order to organize this event

Optimizing culture for in vitro pollination and fertilization in cucumis sativus and C. melo

In vitro pollination can be used to overcome crossing barriers in interspecific hybridization within the genus Cucumis. This technique offers a way to produce viable interspecific hybrids. We tested two types of media, designated CP and YS, for in vitro pollination in Cucumis sativus and C. melo. Pollen grains were isolated by centrifugation or directly from mature male flowers and were cultured with mature ovules. We assessed pollen grain viability, fertilization ability, and fertilized ovule development. The developing ovules (becoming enlarged and green) were transferred to media supporting embryogenesis (with ascorbic acid, caseinhydrolysate, coconut water and gibberellic acid). The highest level of regeneration after in vitro pollination was callus formation from ovules. We found caseinhydrolysate to be the most beneficial component during in vitro pollination (CP medium) and during development of fertilized ovules (ON medium). The hybrid character of fertilized ovules arisen from crosses between cucumber and muskmelon was checked but not confirmed by RAPD analysis, for reasons we suggest. The in vitro protocol needs to be optimized further to obtain a high yield of potential hybrid embryos

IAEA coordinated research project on nuclear data for charged-particle monitor reactions and medical isotope production

An IAEA coordinated research project was launched in December 2012 to establish and improve the nuclear data required to characterise charged-particle monitor reactions and extend data for medical radionuclide production. An international team was assembled to undertake work addressing the requirements for more accurate cross-section data over a wide range of targets and projectiles, undertaken in conjunction with a limited number of measurements and more extensive evaluations of the decay data of specific radionuclides. These studies are nearing completion, and are briefly described below

IAEA coordinated research project on nuclear data for charged-particle monitor reactions and medical isotope production

An IAEA coordinated research project was launched in December 2012 to establish and improve the nuclear data required to characterise charged-particle monitor reactions and extend data for medical radionuclide production. An international team was assembled to undertake work addressing the requirements for more accurate cross-section data over a wide range of targets and projectiles, undertaken in conjunction with a limited number of measurements and more extensive evaluations of the decay data of specific radionuclides. These studies are nearing completion, and are briefly described below

The Thermal Infrared Visual Object Tracking VOT-TIR2016 Challenge Results

The Thermal Infrared Visual Object Tracking challenge 2016, VOT-TIR2016, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that work on thermal infrared (TIR) sequences and do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. VOT-TIR2016 is the second benchmark on short-term tracking in TIR sequences. Results of 24 trackers are presented. For each participating tracker, a short description is provided in the appendix. The VOT-TIR2016 challenge is similar to the 2015 challenge, the main difference is the introduction of new, more difficult sequences into the dataset. Furthermore, VOT-TIR2016 evaluation adopted the improvements regarding overlap calculation in VOT2016. Compared to VOT-TIR2015, a significant general improvement of results has been observed, which partly compensate for the more difficult sequences. The dataset, the evaluation kit, as well as the results are publicly available at the challenge website

The Visual Object Tracking VOT2017 Challenge Results

The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2017 is the fifth annual tracker benchmarking activity organized by the VOT initiative. Results of 51 trackers are presented; many are state-of-the-art published at major computer vision conferences or journals in recent years. The evaluation included the standard VOT and other popular methodologies and a new "real-time" experiment simulating a situation where a tracker processes images as if provided by a continuously running sensor. Performance of the tested trackers typically by far exceeds standard baselines. The source code for most of the trackers is publicly available from the VOT page. The VOT2017 goes beyond its predecessors by (i) improving the VOT public dataset and introducing a separate VOT2017 sequestered dataset, (ii) introducing a realtime tracking experiment and (iii) releasing a redesigned toolkit that supports complex experiments. The dataset, the evaluation kit and the results are publicly available at the challenge website(1)

The Visual Object Tracking VOT2015 challenge results

The Visual Object Tracking challenge 2015, VOT2015, aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. Results of 62 trackers are presented. The number of tested trackers makes VOT 2015 the largest benchmark on short-term tracking to date. For each participating tracker, a short description is provided in the appendix. Features of the VOT2015 challenge that go beyond its VOT2014 predecessor are: (i) a new VOT2015 dataset twice as large as in VOT2014 with full annotation of targets by rotated bounding boxes and per-frame attribute, (ii) extensions of the VOT2014 evaluation methodology by introduction of a new performance measure. The dataset, the evaluation kit as well as the results are publicly available at the challenge website(1)

The Visual Object Tracking Vot2016 Challenge Results

The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2016 aims at comparing short-term single-object visual trackers that do not apply pre-learned models of object appearance. Results of 70 trackers are presented, with a large number of trackers being published at major computer vision conferences and journals in the recent years. The number of tested state-of-the-art trackers makes the VOT 2016 the largest and most challenging benchmark on short-term tracking to date. For each participating tracker, a short description is provided in the Appendix. The VOT2016 goes beyond its predecessors by (i) introducing a new semi-automatic ground truth bounding box annotation methodology and (ii) extending the evaluation system with the no-reset experiment.Wo