Reaching more customers, delving into the unknown

Reaching Into the Unknown: Actions, Goal Hierarchies, and Explorative Agency

Action is widely characterized as possessing a teleological dimension. The dominant way of describing goal-directed action and agency is in terms of exploitation, i.e., pursuing pre-specified goals using existing strategies. Recent theoretical developments emphasize the place of exploration, i.e., discovering new goals or acquiring new strategies. The exploitation-exploration distinction poses ...

Delving into BioMEMS.

Delving into the diversity of silencing pathways

Submitted 20 March 2007; accepted 22 May 2007; published online 29 June 2007 developments include the elucidation of steps in the biogenesis of repeat-associated small interfering RNAs (rasiRNAs), new ideas about how siRNAs silence gene expression, how miRNAs repress translation, and the importance of siRNAs as tools in biological research and therapeutics. The discovery of siRNAs, which silenc...

Delving into the Whorl of Flower Segmentation

We describe an algorithm for automatically segmenting flowers in colour photographs. This is a challenging problem because of the sheer variety of flower classes, the intra-class variability, the variation within a particular flower, and the variability of imaging conditions – lighting, pose, foreshortening etc. The method couples two models – a colour model for foreground and background, and a...

Delving into the Dry - Eye Pipeline

After years of fi ts and starts, the often stalled but always prodigious machinery of the dryeye pipeline appears to be moving forward. Thanks to improvements in designing clinical trials, monitoring patients’ signs and symptoms and evaluating the performance of therapeutic agents, a number of drugs are making their way through the clinical trial process. These agents include new mucomimetics, ...